Management
Ken Foote
Director of Programming
Ken Foote is probably the only person in the U.S. to have served as a television programming director for five different stations in one area.
He is the Director of Programming for CBS 11 KTVT and TXA 21.
Ken's responsibilities include the scheduling of all programming shown over CBS 11 and TXA 21.
Ken was born and raised in Dallas and graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas. He earned his Bachelor's degree in radio/television/film from Southern Methodist University and a MBA degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
While attending high school and college, Ken worked as a disc jockey at several Dallas/Fort Worth radio stations. His television career started in 1978 at WGHP-TV in Greensboro, North Carolina as Director of Sales Development and Research.
His career then took him to a corporate finance position with Gulf Broadcast Group in Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida, where he was responsible for analyzing the financial results for three television stations and eight radio stations and was a part of several media mergers and acquisitions in the early 1980's. He then was transferred to KTSP-TV, the CBS affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona, as Assistant Program Director.
He returned to Dallas in 1984 as Assistant Program Director at KXTX-TV, and was later promoted to Program Director. In 1987, he was named Director of Programming for KTVT-TV when it was an independent station.
Prior to returning to CBS 11 KTVT and KTXA, he was Director of Programming for KDFW FOX 4 and kdfi27.
Ken is a member of the Texas Radio Hall of Fame, the Country Music Association, the Rotary Club of Fort Worth, Leadership Fort Worth, and is on the Sales and Marketing Advisory Committee of Tarrant County College SE.
When Ken is not working, he enjoys spending time with his wife, Mary, and their two college sons, Taylor and Robert.
He is a voiceover artist and a genuine "radio junkie" who enjoys listening to 50,000 watt clear channel AM radio stations at night, international shortwave radio stations or radio stations that stream their audio on the Internet.
Last Updated: November 4, 2009
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