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01/12/2015

Michelle Butt Succeeds Hank Price As President & General Manager Of WXII-TV, Greensboro/Winston-Salem


NEW YORK, NY, and Winston-Salem, N.C., January 12, 2015 – Michelle Butt, news director at Hearst Television’s market-leading Baltimore NBC affiliate, WBAL-TV, and at WBAL-AM, Maryland’s leading news-radio station, has been named president and general manager of WXII-TV, Hearst’s NBC affiliate serving the Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point, N.C. television market.

The appointment, effective immediately, was announced today by Jordan Wertlieb, Hearst Television Inc. president.

Ms. Butt succeeds Henry E. “Hank” Price, who is moving to Hearst’s newly acquired Birmingham, AL, NBC affiliate, WVTM-TV, as president and general manager after a highly successful 15-year run at WXII-TV’s helm. The move marks a return to WXII for Ms. Butt, who served as WXII’s news director for three years during Price’s tenure. Her successor will be announced at a later date.

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