Cordillera Names Shaw Senior VP

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Bill Shaw was named senior VP at Cordillera Communications, and will succeed Gary Nielsen as president/general manager at Cordillera's KVOA Tucson. Nielsen is to retire at the end of the year.

Shaw was most recently theVP and general manager of Tribune's WGN America; he left that post in the middle of 2008. Prior to that, he was president/general manager at Fox Television Sales.

"I am delighted to be joining Cordillera Communications and very excited to be taking over as general manager of KVOA Tucson," said Shaw. "Cordillera is an outstanding company with a rich history and is ideally positioned for the future."

An NBC affiliate, KVOA is the revenue leader in the No. 66 DMA.

Cordillera owns 13 TV stations.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.