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Jan Wade Joins Hearst-Argyle Television as President & General Manager of WISN-TV, MilwaukeeHearst Argyle Television, Inc. - Press Release
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Jan Wade Joins Hearst-Argyle Television as President & General Manager of WISN-TV, Milwaukee
NEW YORK and MILWAUKEE, Feb 12, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Jan Wade, a television broadcaster whose experience includes senior positions within leading TV stations in six different markets, is joining Hearst-Argyle Television as President and General Manager of WISN-TV, the ABC affiliate in Milwaukee.She has served since 1994 as President and General Manager of WATE- TV, the Young Broadcasting-owned ABC affiliate in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Wade succeeds Frank Biancuzzo, who is returning to Hearst-Argyle's New York headquarters as a Senior Vice President/Group Head.
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Wade will report to Philip Stolz, also a Hearst-Argyle Senior Vice President/Group Head, with whom Biancuzzo will share management oversight of substantially all of the company's 29 television stations.
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Before joining WATE, Wade served with WKRN-TV, Young Broadcasting's ABC affiliate in Nashville, first as Marketing & Programming Director.After serving for two years as Marketing Director for WFLA-TV, the Media General NBC affiliate in Tampa, she returned to WRKN as Operations Manager and Programming Director.Before WKRN, she served in senior marketing roles at WLNE-TV, the Freedom Communications CBS affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island; and at WCCO- TV, the CBS owned station in Minneapolis and one of the country's most honored stations.She began her career as an assistant promotions manager at Louisville CBS affiliate WLKY-TV, at the time owned by Gannett Television and now a Hearst-Argyle station.
Wade holds a bachelor of science degree from Ball State University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude as a Journalism and Broadcast double major.She serves on the boards of the Knoxville chapter of United Way, which she currently chairs, as well as the Historic Tennessee Theater, St. Mary's Hospital Women's Health Advisory, Second Harvest Food Bank, Legacy Parks Foundation, the Leadership Knoxville Board and the Executive Women's Foundation, and she is a past chair of the Knoxville Opera Board.