By Joanne Ostrow, Special to The Denver Post
KMGH-Channel 7 vice president and general manager Brad Remington will leave the station at the end of next month. He had held the post since March 2015.
Station staffers were informed that Remington is departing. “I am retiring at the end of the year,” he said Wednesday evening. “My choice. All good.”
Remington served as managing editor at the station from 1989 until he took his first news director post in Albuquerque in 1996. He returned to Denver and KMGH following a tumultuous period for the ABC affiliate. He was installed as general manager after the abrupt departure of Byron Grandy, who had been a powerful ally of the award-winning newsroom. Grandy reportedly met resistance from the higher-ups at the corporate owner, E.W. Scripps Broadcasting.
The station’s continued weak showing in the ratings cannot have helped Remington’s staying power. KMGH revenue share is also down, according to industry sources.
KMGH has trailed the competition in recent years, with NBC affiliate KUSA-Channel 9 holding a decades-long ratings winning streak, while CBS affiliate KCNC-Channel 4 is a solid No. 2 and Fox affiliate KDVR-Channel 31 on their heels in various timeslot battles.
The current numbers don’t look good for KMGH. For the first three weeks of the November sweep, at 5 p.m., KMGH is down 49 percent from last year’s 0.67 rating. KDVR is up slightly from last year with a 0.82 rating; KUSA is down 39 percent but leading with a 1.85 rating and KCNC is up 30 percent and No. 2 with a 1.08 rating.
