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Roger Keating
Senior Vice President
Roger Keating runs the digital media effort for Hearst Television. His scope includes Hearst Television's station web sites and mobile apps, mobile television and interactive TV.
Keating serves on the board of Pearl, a venture formed by nine of the nation's largest local TV groups to pursue new digital businesses, as well as of Mobile Content Ventures ("MCV"), a partnership between Pearl, NBCU, Fox and Ion. MCV intends to bring live TV to mobile devices in the fall of 2011, with broadcasters using a portion of their spectrum to transmit TV signals over the air directly to tablets and smartphones outfitted with a receiver chip. Keating also serves on the board of Internet Broadcasting, which provides a publishing platform, outsourced services and advertising solutions to media publishers.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Keating ran large cable TV operations, first at Comcast and then at Time Warner. He previously ran the voice services business at AOL, as well as the AOL Health and AOL Travel verticals. He led the formation of Comcast's Internet division in the mid '90s and oversaw the development of its high-speed data business. He also was founder/CEO of in 1998 of Zatso, which worked with local TV broadcasters to offer streaming video-based "personalized newscasts."
Keating is a graduate of Notre Dame, where he earned an Industrial Engineering degree, and holds an MBA from Stanford.
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