WAFB-TV vice president and general manager Lee Meredith is leaving the local Raycom Media station in March after four years at its helm.
Meredith says the decision to leave the market’s top-rated station and its parent company is his, but he declines to say what is behind the move, beyond “personal considerations.”
Though Meredith calls his departure from WAFB and Raycom Media a retirement, he says he’s not retiring just yet from the professional world and could still end up in another position in broadcast media.
“I’m not headed out to pasture, but I am going to make a change,” says Meredith, who’s interested in teaching at the university level and consulting, among other things. “I’m open to any opportunity, actually.”
Meredith came to the local CBS affiliate in January 2014 from Raycom’s Memphis affiliate, WMC, which he had headed for eight years. At WAFB, he succeeded Sandy Breland, who had been promoted to regional vice president and general manager of WVUE-TV in New Orleans.
Meredith has “done a great job during his tenure, Breland says, adding “we hate to see him leave.”
—Stephanie Riegel
