KAKE Wichita Reporter Gets Exclusive Interview In National First Amendment Story
November 2nd, 2023 by Paul GreeleyYou remember the story: police raided a small-town newspaper in Kansas, seizing computers and phones. Pilar Pedraza, a political reporter for KAKE Wichita, got an exclusive sit-down with the woman at the center of the story.
Cox’s Maryann Balbo: From Part-Time Master Control To VP
October 1st, 2019 by Paul GreeleyMaryann Balbo, vice president at Cox Media, started her broadcast career as a part-time master control operator in her hometown of Watertown, N.Y. Today, she lives in lives in Wichita, Kan., and is responsible for operations and advertising sales in the Kansas and Arkansas markets. I spoke to Maryann about her career, how she went from being the only woman in the engineering department to eventually being a station general manager and then corporate VP with stops in sales, programming and marketing along the way.