KVMY TV 21

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 4:00pm on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Audra Swain has been named general manager for KVMY-TV 21 and KVCW-TV 33 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The announcement was made by Steve Marks, Chief Operating Officer of Sinclair Broadcast Group's television group on November 11, 2009.

"I am incredibly excited about the opportunity to manage the two television stations in Las Vegas," commented Swain. "Las Vegas is a growing and vibrant market, and I look forward to becoming a member of the community and working with the talented staffs at KVMY and KVCW."

Ms. Swain began her broadcasting career in 1997 in the news department at WJBF-TV in Augusta, Georgia. In 1998 she moved to the sales department as an account executive where she worked until 1999. From then and until 2000, Swain was an account executive for the Fox TV affiliate in the Harrisburg, Pennyslvania market.

In 2000, she joined Sinclair's flagship station, WBFF-TV in Baltimore, Maryland where she was promoted to local sales manager in 2002. In 2004, she was promoted to director of sales for WLOS-TV and WMYA-TV in Sinclair's Asheville, NC/Greenville, SC market. Ms. Swain was named in 2008's Top 25 American Woman in Television and Radio Sales and Marketing.