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- From: ndallen@r-node.gts.org (Nigel Allen)
- Subject: Chairman, CEO, President Named at Post-Newsweek Cable
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.101401.12295@r-node.gts.org>
- Organization: Echo Beach, Toronto
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:14:01 GMT
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- Here is a press release from Post-Newsweek Cable.
-
- Chairman, CEO, President Named at Post-Newsweek Cable
- To: Business Desk
- Contact: Guyon Knight of The Washington Post Co., 202-334-6642
-
- WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- The Washington Post Company
- announced today that Howard E. Wall will become chairman
- and chief executive officer of Post-Newsweek Cable Inc., a
- subsidiary, and Thomas O. Might will become president of
- Post-Newsweek Cable, effective Jan. 1, 1993.
- Wall, who has been president of Post-Newsweek Cable since January
- 1986, will continue to oversee the company's U.S. cable business, but
- will relocate to the United Kingdom to manage the company's growing
- cable operations there.
- Might, who is currently vice president-advertising/marketing of
- The Washington Post newspaper, will assume responsibility for
- Post-Newsweek's domestic cable systems.
- In making the announcement, Alan G. Spoon, chief operating officer
- of The Washington Post Company, said: "These promotions put two of
- our most talented executives at the helm of a business that will be
- increasingly important to the company's future. Under Howard's
- leadership, we plan accelerated growth of cable operations in the
- United Kingdom. Tom Might has the skills to ensure that our domestic
- cable operations will continue to grow in a lively environment, with
- new technologies on one side and reregulation on the other."
- Post-Newsweek Cable's U.S. systems, with headquarters in Phoenix,
- serve over 460,000 subscribers in 15 midwestern, western and southern
- states. In the United Kingdom, Post-Newsweek currently has licenses to
- pass 300,000 homes in Scotland and is in the process of building out
- the systems. The company now has 25,000 U.K. subscribers.
- Wall, 62, joined The Washington Post Company in 1982 as vice
- president and chief accounting officer. From 1978 to 1982 he was
- executive vice president and chief financial officer of Field
- Enterprises Inc. He was vice president and treasurer of The Dun &
- Bradstreet Corp. from 1971 to 1978. From 1956 to 1971 Wall held
- various financial management positions with General Dynamics Corp.
- Wall is a graduate of the University of Utah. He and his wife,
- Deloris, have two grown children.
- Might, 41, joined The Washington Post Company in 1978 as
- assistant to the publisher of The Washington Post newspaper. He was
- manager of The Post's Springfield, Va., plant from 1980 to 1981. In
- 1982 he became vice president-production of The Post and in 1987 vice
- president-production and marketing. Might was named vice
- president-director of advertising in 1991 and vice
- president-advertising and marketing in 1992. Might served in the
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1972 to 1976, attaining the rank
- of captain. He received a B.S. degree in industrial engineering
- from Georgia Tech and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Might
- and his wife, Diane, have three sons.
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