Tribune Broadcasting has promoted Rick Felty to the newly created position of vice president/digital media. Felty, previously vice president/creative services for the broadcasting group, will direct
the central operations for its 27 Web sites and coordinate online efforts in each local market.
Felty will also serve as liaison between Tribune Broadcasting and Tribune
Interactive, which manages the interactive operations for parent Tribune Company's newspaper sites and all aspects of Tribune's classified advertising operations, including such sites as
Careerbuilder.com, Cars.com and Apartments.com. Felty has been with Tribune properties since 1990, and helped launch wgntv.com, Tribune Broadcasting's first Web site, in 1995.