Gray Names Rob Boenau GM of KOLD-TV in Tucson, Ariz.

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Exec had been marketing director for Gray in Cleveland

Rob Boenau Gray Television KOLD-TV
Rob Boenau (Image credit: Gray Television)

Gray Television said it named Rob Boenau as general manager of KOLD-TV, in Tucson, Arizona.

Boenau has been marketing director for Gray’s Cleveland stations WOIO-TV and WUAB-TV for the past 20 years. Last month, he helped Gray launch Telemundo Cleveland, bringing the market its first Spanish-language local news.

He succeeds Michael Hornfeck, who Gray tapped for the job in December. Hornfeck is no longer with the company. 

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Prior to Cleveland, Rob served as marketing director for Gray’s KWCH in Wichita, Kansas. Earlier, he was marketing director for WAAY-TV, Huntsville, Alabama, creative services director for KQTV, St. Joseph, Missouri, and associate producer for CNN. ■

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.