Former KYW GM Passes Away

Pat Polillo, who ran KYW Philadelphia from 1980 to 1984, passed away September 2 from brain cancer. He was 75.

Polillo had several news director jobs before running the show at KPIX San Francisco and KYW. A KYW release says Polillo left a significant mark on the world of TV news, including "the widespread use of minicams in covering live news events, the development of serious investigative reporting teams (I-Teams) at local television stations and the transformation of station editorials to on-site reports that got results."

He had a varied career outside broadcasting, KYW said, dabbling in newspapers and Army counter-intelligence, and teaching match, music, German and bio.

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.