Cosmos Announces Management Reassignments.Business Editors GREENVILLE, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 13, 2001 The Liberty Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : LC) through its operating subsidiary An operating subsidiary is a business term frequently used within the United States railroad industry. In the case of a railroad, it refers to a company that is a subsidiary but operates with its own identity and rolling stock. , Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation, today announced the following management reassignments, which will be effective on Monday, July 16: Melbourne (Mel) Stebbins, Vice President and General Manager of WTOL-TV (CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. ) in Toledo, Ohio
in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. ) the company-owned station in Columbia, South Carolina Columbia is the state capital and largest city of South Carolina. As of 2006, estimates for the population of the city proper is 122,819[1]. Columbia is the county seat of Richland County, but a small portion of the city extends into Lexington County. . Stebbins will have operational responsibility for WIS-TV, Take Ten Productions, WIS Radio and WIS-Florence. Mel Stebbins joined Cosmos as General Sales Manager in Toledo in 1978. He was later promoted to General Manager of company-owned WSFA-TV (NBC) in Montgomery, AL returning to WTOL as General Manager in April 1993. He is a native of Ionia, Michigan and a graduate of Michigan State University Michigan State University, at East Lansing; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855. It opened in 1857 as Michigan Agricultural College, the first state agricultural college. . Mel and his wife, Kathy, will relocate to Columbia immediately. Joining Stebbins on the WIS-TV management team as Station Manager is Jeff Hoffman the current News Director for Cosmos-owned WAVE-TV (NBC) in Louisville, Ky. Hoffman will have daily operational responsibility for news, marketing, production, and engineering. Hoffman joined Cosmos in January 2000 from WJZ-TV in Baltimore, MD. Jeff and his wife, Andrea, have one daughter and are expecting their second child in September. Hoffman is a native of Baltimore and attended the University of Maryland University of Maryland can refer to:
Replacing Stebbins as General Manager at WTOL-TV will be Bob Chirdon, the station's General Sales Manager. Chirdon, a native of the Cleveland area, came to WTOL from the ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. station in Cleveland in April 1999. He and his wife, Kathy, reside in Maumee, Ohio. They have 2 children. Chirdon is a graduate of Ohio University. A major group broadcaster, Liberty, through its operating subsidiary, Cosmos Broadcasting, owns 15 network-affiliated television stations, including eight NBC affiliates (WALB-TV, Albany, Ga.; KCBD-TV, Lubbock, Tx; WAVE-TV, Louisville, Ky.; WIS-TV, Columbia, S.C.; WSFA-TV, Montgomery, Ala.; WFIE-TV, Evansville, Ind.; KPLC-TV, Lake Charles, La.; and WLBT-TV, Jackson, Miss.); five ABC affiliates (KAIT-TV, Jonesboro, Ark.; WLOX-TV, Biloxi, Miss.; WWAY-TV, Wilmington, N.C; KLTV-TV, Tyler, Tx; and KTRE-TV, the satellite affiliate of KLTV in Lufkin, Tx); and two CBS affiliates (KGTB-TV, Harlingen, Tx; and WTOL-TV, Toledo, Ohio). In addition, Cosmos owns CableVantage Inc., a cable advertising sales subsidiary; Take Ten productions, a video production facility; and Broadcast Merchandising Company, a professional broadcast equipment dealership. Cosmos has operational partnerships and equity positions in WorldNow, the leading provider of Internet technology solutions for local media companies, MyWeather, developer of innovative technologies to provide personalized weather on the web and iBlast, the nation's largest wireless data broadcast distribution network that provides a fast, cost-effective "last mile" solution for content providers and consumers. Note: Digital photographs (jpeg) are available from margot.riser@cci-ir.com. |
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