Jordan Wertlieb
- Executive
Jordan Wertlieb has been president of Hearst Television since 2013. He moved to the company's New York City headquarters in January 2011 as an executive vice president of Hearst Television.
Wertlieb is immediate past chairman of the National Association of Broadcasters' (NAB) joint board of directors and, previously, was chairman of its television board. He is a member of the A+E Networks board and serves as a vice chair of the Broadcasters Foundation of America board. He is a past president-chairman of the NBC affiliates board.
Wertlieb began his television career in 1986 as a research analyst at Katz Communications in New York. He became a television sales account executive at Katz in 1989, representing television stations of Hearst Broadcasting (Hearst Television's predecessor company), as well as other leading station groups.
In 1993, Wertlieb joined Hearst's WCVB-TV, Boston, as national sales manager and was promoted to local sales manager in 1998. In 1999, he was promoted to general sales manager of WBAL-TV, Hearst Television's NBC affiliate in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2005, he became the station's president and general manager. During his tenure there the station further solidified its position as Baltimore's No. 1 TV station and earned multiple journalism honors, including two national Edward R. Murrow Awards, six National Headliner Awards, a national Walter Cronkite Award for political journalism and a Columbia University Alfred I. Dupont Award.
In 2015, Wertlieb was inducted into the Maryland D.C. Delaware Broadcasting Hall of Fame and, in 2018, to the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame. In 2021, he was recognized by the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) with its Lew Klein Award for Leadership and by the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation (LABF) for lifetime achievement during the LABF's Giants of Broadcasting & Electronic Arts awards ceremony. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is a graduate of the NAB Broadcast Leadership Training program.
Wertlieb is immediate past chairman of the National Association of Broadcasters' (NAB) joint board of directors and, previously, was chairman of its television board. He is a member of the A+E Networks board and serves as a vice chair of the Broadcasters Foundation of America board. He is a past president-chairman of the NBC affiliates board.
Wertlieb began his television career in 1986 as a research analyst at Katz Communications in New York. He became a television sales account executive at Katz in 1989, representing television stations of Hearst Broadcasting (Hearst Television's predecessor company), as well as other leading station groups.
In 1993, Wertlieb joined Hearst's WCVB-TV, Boston, as national sales manager and was promoted to local sales manager in 1998. In 1999, he was promoted to general sales manager of WBAL-TV, Hearst Television's NBC affiliate in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2005, he became the station's president and general manager. During his tenure there the station further solidified its position as Baltimore's No. 1 TV station and earned multiple journalism honors, including two national Edward R. Murrow Awards, six National Headliner Awards, a national Walter Cronkite Award for political journalism and a Columbia University Alfred I. Dupont Award.
In 2015, Wertlieb was inducted into the Maryland D.C. Delaware Broadcasting Hall of Fame and, in 2018, to the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame. In 2021, he was recognized by the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) with its Lew Klein Award for Leadership and by the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation (LABF) for lifetime achievement during the LABF's Giants of Broadcasting & Electronic Arts awards ceremony. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is a graduate of the NAB Broadcast Leadership Training program.