Bonneville radio stations in Seattle get new chief

Bonneville radio stations
in Seattle get new chief

Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) -
The Business Journal of Milwaukee
June 18, 2008

Carl Gardner has been named vice president and market manager for Bonneville International's cluster of three radio stations in his hometown of Seattle.

Gardner has been with Milwaukee-based Journal Communications Inc. (NYSE: JRN) for the past 17 years, most recently as executive vice president of television and radio for Journal Broadcast Group and vice president of digital media for Journal Communications.

Gardner's appointment is effective on July 7. The stations are KIRO-AM, KBSG-FM and KTTH-AM.

Bonneville is based in Salt Lake City and owns and operates 30 radio stations in the Chicago, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Phoenix, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Salt Lake City markets, as well as an NBC television station in Salt Lake City.

Journal management had no comment on Gardner's departure. However, in a Tuesday memo to Journal Communications staff, Gardner said he was looking forward to returning both to Seattle, where he grew up and graduated from the University of Washington, and to front-line management of radio stations.

"Now and then, if we're lucky, we come across an opportunity that's too good to pass by," Gardner said. "My family and I are fortunate enough to face one of those today, and we're going for it."

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