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Covarrubias named VP and GM of KYAZ

Posted on 12 May 2017. Tags: ,

Melissa CovarrubiasMelissa Covarrubias is the new VP and General Manager of Azteca América station KYAZ-TV in Houston, reporting to station group EVP Enrique Pérez.

Covarrubias was most recently VP of Sales and Marketing for ZipCast, where she worked since 2014.

She previously worked 13 years for Univision in Houston. She was a Local Sales Manager from 2001 to 2010, when she was promoted to VP, Director of Sales until 2014.

She began her career as an Account Executive for HBC Radio in 1998.

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I'm an Emmy award-winning journalist, who's worked as an on-air reporter in Spanish and English-language television news. I've worked for Univision, Telemundo, CNN en Español and Los Angeles Fox and UPN stations before diving into a convergence model at the San Jose Mercury News. I was president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists from 2004 to 2006, and inducted into the Hall of Fame in August of 2016. As an online news manager, I was West Coast Web Editor for impreMedia and Managing Editor of IntersectionsSouthLA.org. In addition to running Media Moves, which I founded in June of 2007, I'm a regular contributor to Forbes and also do freelance work as writer, reporter and producer.
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