Smythe Retiring as KBSI Paducah-Cape Girardeau GM

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Mike Smythe, general manager at KBSI-WKDA Paducah-Cape Girardeau, will retire effective Sept. 26. Smythe joined the Sinclair stations in February 2012 after retiring from the GM job at Raycom’s KFVS-WQWQ.

KBSI is a Fox affiliate and WKDA is a MyNetworkTV station that Sinclair operates through a local marketing agreement. Paducah-Cape Girardeau, touching both Kentucky and Missouri, is DMA No. 81.

Smythe said he was "very pleased to have had the opportunity to help the stations have a greater positive impact on the viewing area.”

Prior to his long run atop KFVS, Smythe was general sales manager for WITN in Greenville/New Bern/Washington, N.C. He had also been general sales manager at WKEF, Sinclair's ABC affiliate in Dayton.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

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.