McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Names Jeffrey Block Vice President, General Manager of KGTV, San Diego

McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Names Jeffrey Block Vice President, General Manager of KGTV, San Diego

SAN DIEGO, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- McGraw-Hill Broadcasting, a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, today announced the appointment of Jeffrey Block as vice president and general manager of KGTV, the ABC-affiliate station in San Diego, and its Spanish-language Azteca America affiliate, effective Aug. 4. In this position, Mr. Block will be responsible for the strategy and day-to-day editorial and business operations of KGTV, Azteca America San Diego, and the station's digital properties.

"Jeff brings to KGTV more than 25 years of leadership in news and sales in competitive broadcast markets, leading initiatives to monetize digital properties, achieving strong growth in ratings and revenues, and adopting new media technologies," said Darrell K. Brown, president of McGraw-Hill Broadcasting. "We are excited to have him lead the KGTV team."

Mr. Block, 55, held several key positions over 18 years at Cox Television in San Francisco-Oakland, including vice president of digital strategy, where he developed and led the strategies for the 15-station group to monetize digital properties; general manager of KTVU; and general sales manager of the station. Most recently, Mr. Block has been an independent media consultant whose projects included work in downloaded video distribution; digital distribution network for program production, syndication and advertising; and marketing web publishing products to media.

Mr. Block holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan.

About McGraw-Hill Broadcasting

Since 1972, McGraw-Hill Broadcasting, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, has been delivering local viewing audiences dependable news and information, entertainment and community service. With access to over 8 million people in San Diego and Kern County, California, Denver, and Colorado Springs, Colorado and Central Indiana, McGraw-Hill Broadcasting operates KGTV San Diego (ABC), KERO-TV Bakersfield (ABC), KMGH-TV Denver (ABC), WRTV Indianapolis (ABC) and Azteca America affiliates in Denver, Colorado Springs, San Diego and Bakersfield. With Cable news channels, high definition broadcasts and local news websites in every market in which we operate, McGraw-Hill Broadcasting is a leader in local broadcast innovation.

Source: McGraw-Hill Broadcasting

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