Journal Broadcast Hires Jim Arnold For Tucson TV/Radio

Jim Arnold has been named the new Vice President and General Manager for Journal Broadcast Group-Tucson Operations.

Jim Prather, executive vice president of television and radio operations for Journal Broadcast Group made the announcement.

“Jim Arnold knows Tucson. He studied at the University of Arizona, was an award-winning Country Music personality on KCUB, and most recently spent a decade as general manager at KOLD-TV. His depth of experience across sales, programming and community outreach is a perfect fit for our great collection of stations in the Journal Broadcast Group Tucson cluster.”

“I am thrilled to have the opportunity to join the Tucson stations of the Journal Broadcast Group.  Many of the talented people here have been peers and friends for many years and I look forward to working with them and the entire team in serving our audiences and advertisers,” Arnold said.

From 2000 to 2010, Arnold was the vice president/general manager of the CBS affiliate KOLD-TV in Tucson, where he led the station from #3 in local news, market revenue and community image to become the market leader at that time in all three.

Journal convinced Arnold to come out of retirement for the opportunity.