Veteran locally-based, digital TV network executive Jonathan
Katz has been named chief operating officer and head of entertainment for E.W.Scripps’ new national television networks business.
Katz founded Katz Broadcasting, a company of locally based digital TV networks, and then sold the company to Scripps in 2017 for $292 million.
He started the Bounce network in 2011, with a focus on African-American audiences. Three years later, he founded the Katz Networks brand (under Katz Broadcasting LLC) in 2014, where he was president and chief executive officer of the Katz networks.advertisement
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Katz also held a number of local TV positions at TV stations in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida; Charlotte, North Carolina; Birmingham, Alabama, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.