Gray Media Names GMs of Nebraska Stations [Video]

Gray Media has made some management moves at its Nebraska stations.

It’s named Shannon Booth as the next general manager of NBC affiliate WOWT in Omaha, Nebraska. She will succeed Jim McKernan, who is retiring on June 2 after a 44 year career in broadcasting.

To replace Booth, Gray named Jacque Harms general manager of Gray’s CBS affiliate KOLN and NBC affiliate KSNB in Lincoln, Nebraska, and NBC and CBS affiliates KNOP and KNPL in North Platte, Nebraska.

For the past eight years, Booth has overseen several market-leading television, digital and streaming products serving Lincoln, Grand Island, Hastings, Kearney, North Platte and many communities in between.

Booth also spent 18 years at KCRG in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she held several management positions in news, digital, marketing and creative and at WOI in Ames, Iowa, KTIV in Sioux City, Iowa, WHO in Des Moines, Iowa; and KWWL in Waterloo, Iowa.

Harms returns home to Nebraska where she began and also spent …