WSVN-TV Names News Director

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Sunbeam’s WSVN-TV Miami has a new news director: Tom Gonzalez-Diego, who had been assistant news director since 1999.

Gonzalez-Diego has been with the station since 1988, when it was an NBC affiliate. For those keeping track: According to Alice Jacobs, VP of news and local programming, Gonzalez-Diego is the only Cuban-American heading an English-language news operation in the market.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.