Brad Remington, a former Denver TV news director, will begin March 9 as the new VP/General Manager of Scripps’ KMGH-TV, ending the station’s five-month period without a GM.
The move marks a return to the Denver ABC affiliate for Remington, who served as managing editor there until he took his first news director post in Albuquerque in 1996.
He later moved to news director positions in St. Louis, Denver (at Fox’s KDVR) and Phoenix. He left Phoenix to return to Denver a few years ago. He has been running a now called , in the interim.
Remington replaces Byron Grandy, who left the station abruptly in September after six years as general manager. Remington’s name had been circulated in recent weeks as the likely candidate for the job.
His first order of business: The station is currently , since Jeff Harris moved to the Scripps station WEWS in his hometown of Cleveland last year.
