Gray Names Chris Fedele as GM of WPTA and WISE Fort Wayne

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Broadcaster returns to station after running WTVG in Toledo

Chris Fedele Gray Television
Chris Fedele (Image credit: Gray Television)

Gray Television named Chris Fedele as general manager of WPTA and WISE, its stations in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Fedele, an Indiana native, will be returning to ABC affiliate WPTA, where he spent 14 years in sales positions before becoming the station’s GM.

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He left the station, spending 10 years as director of sales and marketing for WLEX Lexington, Kentucky, and then serving the past four years as GM of WTVG, Gray’s station in Toledo, Ohio.

He started his broadcasting career with Blair Television in New York.

Fedele succeeds Merry Ewing, who had run WPTA for six years. ■

Jon Lafayette
Jon Lafayette

Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.