In another move that solidifies TEGNA‘s “hold separate” status as a California federal district court judge considers whether its regulatory approved merger with Nexstar Media Group is a violation of antitrust law, the broadcast television licensee led by Patrick Paolini has promoted its Sr. VP and Head of Sports Rights and Sr. VP of Revenue to the role of Sr. VP and Group General Manager for TEGNA Media.
Dallas-based Brad Ramsey announced his promotion at TEGNA via the LinkedIn social media platform. And, it marks a return of sorts to a position he held from July 2019 through July 2025, when Ramsey served as TEGNA’s Sr. VP of Media Operations.
Ramsey will continue to serve in his sports rights position, earned in April 2023, while shedding his finance post taken some 14 months ago.
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With roughly 25 years of experience in broadcast TV that includes a two-year period in which he served as Head of Global Sales for Boats.com and, later, as VP of Strategy for The Center for Sales Strategy, Ramsey is in his second tenure at TEGNA. He first joined the company formerly known as Gannett in October 2012 as President/GM of WVEC-TV in Norfolk.
Before that, Ramsey spent 12 years within Gray Media, serving as a sports anchor and reporter and taking sales positions with increased responsibility in Harrisonburg and Winchester, Va. In 2008, he was promoted to VP/GM of WVIR-29 in Charlottesville, Va.
After two years leading WVEC, Ramsey would take a corporate role at TEGNA, becoming VP of Sales. He’d stay in the role until September 2016, when he decided a role in the boating industry would prove satisfying. Indeed, he was part of the C-Suite team leading a successful exit to Apax Partners while at Boats Group and Boats.com.
As 2018 began, Ramsey returned to broadcast television in a significant way, earning the role of President/GM of one of TEGNA’s prized properties: ABC affiliate WFAA-8 in Dallas. By May 2019, a bigger role would arrive for Ramsey, taking a Sr. VP role giving him oversight of ABC affiliate KVUE-24 in Austin and CBS affiliate KENS-5 in San Antonio.
With the spring 2023 promotion to his sports rights role, bring pro sports to TEGNA stations has been Ramsey’s specialty. This includes Milwaukee Bucks games on WQAD-TV in the Quad Cities of Iowa and Illinois and a Dallas Mavericks package for WFAA-8. Seventeen Indiana Fever WNBA games were seen across TEGNA stations in Des Moines and Louisville, as well as its WQAD-TV and WTHR-TV in Indianapolis in 2024. More recently, the Seattle Kraken NHL franchise struck a deal to have its games air on TEGNA’s KING-5 and KONG-TV in Seattle. At the same time, KFAA-29 in Dallas was selected as the exclusive local broadcast partner of the Dallas Wings WNBA franchise, with games airing on six other TEGNA stations in addition to non-owned partner stations.
Outside of his roles at TEGNA, Ramsey since 2026 has been Vice Chair of the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic and on its board of directors since 2020.
