Mark Higgins Named Vice President, General Manager of LIN TV's WTNH-TV/WCTX-TV
June 29 2009 - 3:13PM
PR Newswire (US)
PROVIDENCE, R.I., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- LIN TV Corp. (NYSE:TVL),
a local television and digital media company, today announced the
appointment of Mark Higgins as Vice President, General Manager of
its Hartford-New Haven duopoly WTNH-TV/WCTX-TV. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080104/NYF006LOGO) Mr.
Higgins joins LIN TV from the advertising agency The Spark Group in
Phoenix, Arizona, where he held the position of Chief Operating
Officer and Managing Partner. While in that role, he was
responsible for day-to-day operations, including new business
development and growing profitability. Prior to The Spark Group,
Mr. Higgins was President/General Manager of Belo Corp.'s KTVK-TV
and KASW-TV in Phoenix from 2002 to 2008. Mr. Higgins has worked in
the television broadcast industry since 1982 and assumed roles as
General Manager, Station Manager and Local and National Sales
Manager. Mr. Higgins will provide leadership and operational
management for LIN TV's duopoly in the 30th largest Demographic
Market Area and advertising market in the country. He will report
to Scott Blumenthal, LIN TV's Executive Vice President Television.
In announcing the appointment, Mr. Blumenthal said: "Mark's
forward-thinking approach to sales, news and community involvement,
along with his rich understanding of both our traditional media and
our many new platforms, make him an ideal choice to manage two of
our leading television stations. We are pleased to welcome Mark to
the team." Active in industry affairs, Mr. Higgins held the roles
of chairman and vice chairman of the FOX affiliates' board of
governors from 2000 through 2002. He has also served as a board
member of the Television Bureau of Advertising's Sales Advisory
Committee and the CBS Marketing Advisory Council, as well as
various other local and national affiliations. Mr. Higgins attended
the University of Arizona and has served as an instructor at
Arizona State University and the University of Tampa's postgraduate
mass communications' program. About LIN TV LIN TV Corp., along with
its subsidiaries, is a local television and digital media company,
owning and/or operating 27 television stations in 17 U.S. markets,
all of which are affiliated with a national broadcast network. LIN
TV's highly-rated stations deliver important local news and
community stories, along with top-rated sports and entertainment
programming, to 9% of U.S. television homes, reaching an average of
11 million households per week. LIN TV is also a leader in the
convergence of local broadcast television and the Internet through
its television station web sites and a growing number of local
online innovations that reach 15% of U.S. broadband households. LIN
TV is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "TVL".
Financial information about the company is available at
http://www.lintv.com/. CONTACT: Karen Zeitlin, 203-784-8854,
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080104/NYF006LOGODATASOURCE:
WTNH-TV CONTACT: Karen Zeitlin, +1-203-784-8854, Web Site:
http://www.lintv.com/
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