/ 05.04.2010 12:00AM
Veteran TV Station Manager to Lead VCI Solutions
SPRINGFIELD, MASS.: Robert Furlong is the new president and CEO of
VCI Solutions, the company announced today. He replaces Sarah Foss, who stepped
down in February after heading up the company for four years.
Furlong comes VCI Solutions from managing two TV station in Albany, N.Y., for
Freedom Broadcasting of New York, formerly Freedom Communications. Furlong
served as vice president and general manager of Freedom’s WRGB-TV and WCWN-TV
since 2004.
Previously, he held the same role at KPHO-TV, a Meredith Broadcasting station
in Phoenix, Ariz.; and simultaneously at KUTP-TV and KTVX-TV, United
Television-owned stations in Phoenix and Salt Lake City, respectively. He
started in TV station management at WCGV-TV in Milwaukee, where he became a VCI
client in 1992.
-- Deborah D. McAdams