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Jeff Kiernan Named News Director For WBZ-TV & TV38

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Sep 5, 2007 1:16 pm US/Eastern

Jeff Kiernan Named News Director For WBZ-TV & TV38

BOSTON (WBZ) ― Jeff Kiernan has been named News Director for Boston's WBZ-TV and TV38, it was announced today by the stations' President and General Manager, Ed Piette. Kiernan will begin his new position on Monday, September 24.

Kiernan comes to WBZ-TV and TV38 from WCCO-TV, Minneapolis' CBS owned-and-operated station, where he has been News Director for four years.

"Jeff is a quality individual who has outstanding news integrity, judgment, and instincts," said Piette when making the announcement. "He possesses a great deal of experience and a winning track record that will be essential to leading the News department's development and moving both stations forward. I know first-hand that Jeff's leadership was integral to making 'CCO the Twin Cities' leading local news operation, and I'm confident he has what it takes to lead WBZ-TV News to #1."

"To help reclaim the heritage of WBZ-TV is a unique opportunity," said Kiernan. "It will be an honor and privilege to work along side the on-air and off-air staff as we create relevant and engaging broadcast journalism and serve on-line and new media users. There will be plenty of hard work and we will have some fun too."

Kiernan brings more than twenty-two years of broadcast journalism experience to WBZ-TV and TV38. Before WCCO-TV, Kiernan was News Director for eight years at the top-rated WTMJ-TV, the NBC affiliate in Milwaukee, WI. He joined WTMJ-TV in 1990 as News Assignment Manager and was promoted to Managing News Editor three years later. Before that, Kiernan was a News Reporter/Anchor for WTMJ-AM. He started his broadcast journalism career at Milwaukee's WISN-AM/WLQT-FM later moving to television at WISN-TV.

An Emmy Award winning journalist, Kiernan is a 1987 graduate of Marquette University with a B.A. in broadcast journalism.

Boston's WBZ-TV and TV38 are part of CBS Television Stations, a division of CBS Corporation.

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