Frank Biancuzzo is a Senior Vice President/Group Head of Hearst Television, Inc., formerly Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc., a position to which he was appointed in 2007. With Philip Stolz, also a Hearst Television, Inc. Senior Vice President/Group Head, he shares management oversight of substantially all of the company's 29 television stations.
Previously, Biancuzzo served as President and General Manager of WISN-TV, the Hearst Television, Inc. ABC station in Milwaukee 2002-2007. During that time, the station became America's number one ABC Affiliate in primetime audience delivery for five consecutive years. WISN-TV also achieved the number one rank in all weekday local newscasts, and has been recognized as one of the country's most honored local news organizations with a prestigious International George Foster Peabody Award, and Edward R. Murrow and AP Best Newscast Awards.
Before that, Biancuzzo was, for five years, Hearst-Argyle Television's Vice President, Marketing & Promotion, overseeing the Hearst-Argyle stations' audience promotion, positioning and branding, image development, research and local newscast development. He joined Hearst-Argyle predecessor Hearst Broadcasting, then an operating group of Hearst Corporation, as Director of Promotion & Marketing in 1995. Previously, Biancuzzo served for six years at Frank N. Magid Associates, most recently as vice president, marketing group research and consultation. In overseeing promotion research and consultation services primarily within the television industry, he developed an international clientele and personally consulted to television stations and networks in six countries.
Biancuzzo graduated, with honors, with a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, which gave him an Outstanding Alumni Award in 1989.
