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Raycom Officers
Paul McTear - President, CEO
 Paul McTear joined Raycom Media in February 1997 as Chief Financial Officer with responsibilities including traditional financial oversight plus operating responsibilities for Raycom Sports. In July of 2001, Paul was promoted to the position of President/Chief Executive Officer following the retirement of CEO John Hayes. The company has grown to the largest privately owned TV broadcast company in the US, now owning and/or operating 42 television stations in 18 states and covering more than 10.6% of U.S. television households. Raycom stations are the news leaders in the majority of their markets.
Paul was previously at the Providence Journal Company for 20 years where he was Vice President of Finance and Corporate Development. While there, Paul was involved with acquisitions, strategic and financial planning, and corporate development. He was also instrumental in the launch of two cable programming networks, Television Food Network and America’s Health Network. In addition, Paul had financial overview of The Providence Journal’s cable, paging and cellular telephone companies.
Paul serves on the National Association of Broadcasters Board of Directors, NBC’s Affiliate Board, and heads a Small Market Coalition formed to keep Small Market Broadcast issues in the forefront. Additionally, he serves on the Board of Directors of Wide Orbit, World Now, MSTV and My Weather.
A native of Philadelphia, PA, Paul received his BS in accounting from Drexel University. He and his wife Denise are the parents of four sons and live in Montgomery, Alabama.
Wayne Daugherty - EVP, Chief
Operating Officer
 Following the purchase of AFLAC's group of television stations by Raycom Media in April 1997, Wayne Daugherty joined Raycom to work with eight of the company's profit centers as a Group Vice President. Daugherty, who had been President of the AFLAC Group of television stations, brought to Raycom Media 30 years of experience in the broadcasting business, beginning with radio in 1969 where he served as Sales Manager and General Manager of Montgomery, Alabama's first stand-alone FM radio station. Since 1974 his career has been in the television side of the business.
Wayne served as a Local Account Executive, Regional Sales Manager and Local Sales Manager with the Cosmos Broadcasting Group. Following, he served as General Sales Manager, Station Manager and General Manager of WTVM in Columbus, Georgia, until it was purchased by AFLAC Broadcasting in 1989. He joined the Corporate Staff of the AFLAC Broadcasting Group as President of the Southern Division with oversight responsibilities for a group of their television stations. Later, he became Executive Vice President and, in 1996, President of the Broadcast Group. Since joining Raycom, Wayne served as nine years as Group VP and in 2006 was named Executive VP/Chief Operating Officer with oversight responsibilities for three Group Vice Presidents of Station Operations as well as Vice Presidents for Research, Marketing, Technology, and News.
Marty Edelman - VP, Television
 Marty
Edelman joined Raycom Media as Group Vice President in September
1999. He currently has oversight responsibility for twelve of Raycom's television
stations.
Prior to joining Raycom,
Edelman served as VP/West Coast for Granite Broadcasting with
oversight responsibility for KBWB-TV, San Francisco and KNTV, San Jose.
Edelman also served as President/General Manager of Granite's
Detroit, MI, and Fresno, CA, television stations. He has been in the
television broadcast industry for 37 years and served in sales and
sales management capacities in Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco and
San Jose.
Served on various Boards including the Adcraft Club of Detroit, the Michigan Association of Broadcasters, the California Association of Broadcasters, the Bay Area Society for Television, Advertising and Radio, and the Boys and Girls Club of Fresno, CA.
Marty is a graduate of Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan,
and holds a BS Degree in Business Administration, majoring in
Advertising and Marketing.
Leon Long - VP, Television
 Leon Long joined the company on February 1, 2006 when Raycom purchased Liberty Corp. Prior to joining Raycom, Long was Vice President of Operations for Liberty with responsibilities for 7 of its television stations. Long also serves as the Vice President and General Manager of Raycom’s Biloxi, Mississippi television station, WLOX.
Long began his broadcasting career in radio with WLOX and moved to a management position with WLOX-TV in 1980. He is a former stockholder/owner of the WXVT-TV, the CBS affiliate for Greenville, Mississippi.
Long has been actively engaged in a number of industry and professional associations. He currently serves as the Chairman/President of the ABC Affiliate Association; former chairman of the NAB 100+ Committee; former member of the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Broadcasters Association; former member of the Arbitron Television Advisory Board; selected by TV Business Confidential as one of “America’s Best GM’s” in 1998.
Jeff Rosser - VP, Television
 Jeff Rosser was named Raycom Media’s third Group Vice President in January, 1999 to oversee twelve of Raycom Media’s television stations. With the acquisition of additional stations since then, Jeff now oversees fourteen Raycom television stations. He is credited with helping to achieve one duopoly (KFVS/WQWQ in Cape Girardeau/Paducah) and three shared services agreements (WTVM/WXTX in Columbus, Ga.; WECT/WSFX in Wilmington; and WTVR/WUPV in Richmond). Jeff will soon be providing oversight as WUPV in Richmond is moved to WWBT, recently acquired from Lincoln Financial.
Jeff’s early background is in television news. He worked as a reporter, photographer, producer and bureau chief at stations in Salt Lake City and in Dallas. At the age of 27 he accepted his first News Director position with the ABC affiliate in Tulsa. In 1976, he hired Barbara Allen as a news anchor from a station in Ft. Myers, Florida. A year later, Jeff and Barbara were married. Today, they have a twenty-year-old son, Tyler who is a Junior at Rhodes College in Memphis.
In 1978, Jeff became a news producer, and then Assistant News Director at WNBC-TV in New York. Two years later he moved to Boston where he was the News Director for Westinghouse-owned WBZ. In 1983 he became the Vice President of News for WNEV also in Boston. During his eight years in Boston, Jeff accepted the Regional Emmy Award for Best Newscast in New England, four times, three of those times in consecutive years.
Jeff’s first General Manager’s job came in 1988 at Times Mirror owned WVTM-TV in Birmingham. Two years later, Times Mirror announced Jeff as the new General Manager at KDFW-TV in Jeff’s home town, Dallas. Before coming to Raycom Media, Jeff also served as General Manager at stations in Providence, Ft. Smith/Fayetteville and Oklahoma City.
Jeff served a four year term on the ABC Affiliate Board of Governors, and was the Board’s representative on the ABC Affiliate News Director’s Advisory Committee. He also served a term on the National Association of Broadcasters Television Board of Directors. Jeff is now Vice Chair of the FOX Affiliate Board of Governors and continues to serve as the Board’s representative on the FOX News Advisory Committee. Jeff received his Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism from Brigham Young University.
Melissa Thurber - VP, Chief
Financial Officer
 Melissa Thurber joined Raycom Media in 1996 as Vice President, Corporate Controller, with responsibility for all financial accounting, reporting, and treasury management functions for the company. Melissa was promoted to Chief Financial Officer in July, 2007. Prior to Raycom Media, Melissa held the position of Controller for Ellis Communications in Atlanta, Georgia.
Melissa began her career in the banking industry where, over a ten-year span, she held various positions such as Banking Officer, Assistant Controller, Internal Auditor, and Senior Accountant.
Melissa earned a B.S.B.A degree in Accounting from Auburn University, Montgomery. She has been active in broadcast and accounting organizations including the Broadcast Cable Financial Managers Association, Television Music License Committee, and the Institute of Management Accountants.
Anne Adkins - VP, Marketing
 Anne
Thompson Adkins was named Raycom Media's Vice President of Marketing
in December, 1997. Adkins is responsible for all aspects of
marketing for Raycom Media including station promotion and strategy,
research implementation and in some instances, public service. She
is also responsible for all station graphics and heads up the Raycom
Design Group.
Adkins joined Raycom Media after twenty years in the marketing arena
at the local station level, the last being KGW-TV in Portland,
Oregon. Prior to her marketing career, Anne worked as an independent
television producer in New York, New York. Her career also includes
stints as a professional actress, writer and producer.
Anne holds a Speech and Theater degree from Lion College in Arkansas
with graduate credits in Broadcast Journalism from the University of
Rhode Island.
Clyde Baucom - VP, Human Resources
 Clyde Baucom is Vice President - Human Resources for the 3,300 employees of Raycom Media. Baucom joined Raycom Media in January 1997 after spending
ten years as Vice President - Human Resources for Multimedia, Inc. which had
five TV, seven radio, fourteen newspaper, 600,000 cable subscribers, and
three syndicated program properties (Sally Jessy Raphael, Jerry Springer and Phil Donahue).
Previously, Baucom was Director of Human Resources with Karastan-Bigelow Carpet Company and Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company until those companies were acquired.
With over 30 years Human Resources experience, Baucom holds an HR degree from The University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) and has served as President and Board Member of the Southern Employee Benefits Conference, President of Junior Achievement of Greenville, SC, and HR Committee Chair for the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association.
Rebecca Bryan - VP, General
Counsel
 Rebecca
Bryan joined Raycom Media, Inc. in September, 1997 as Vice President/General Counsel and has responsibility for all legal functions for Raycom and its subsidiaries. Prior to joining Raycom, Ms. Bryan served as Vice President/General Counsel for KinderCare Learning Centers, Inc. the country's largest childcare organization.
Bryan graduated from the University of Alabama where she received both her B.S. and J.D. Degrees. Immediately after law school, she served as a Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice James H. Faulkner and was in the private practice of law for four years.
Bryan is a member of the Alabama and American Bar Associations, the Alabama Corporate Counsel Association (past Board Member) and the International Association of Defense Attorneys/Corporate Division. She is also a member of the Communications Law Forum. She is married and has two children.
David Folsom - VP, Chief
Technology Officer
 With
rapidly changing technology facing over-the-air broadcasting, Dave
Folsom joined Raycom Media as Vice President - Technology in 1997 to
guide the company as it moved into the era of digital broadcasting.
Dave Folsom has been in broadcasting and engineering management for
well over thirty years. His television-engineering career began with
the design of broadcast equipment for a major microwave equipment
manufacturer. Later, he accepted his first broadcasting position at
Boston's WGBH-TV that ultimately led to becoming the Chief Engineer
of their daytime programming service, the 21 Inch Classroom.
Later, Dave joined Sony Corporation, as it's first Broadcasting
Sales Engineer. His term at Sony was during the initial explosive
growth of electronic newsgathering that was made possible by the
rapid development of high quality small format tape machines.
He then became Director of Operations and Engineering of Boston's
ABC affiliate, WCVB-TV. During his tenure at this station, the
facility was completely remodeled and a major studio was added.
After nearly 20 years in Boston, he accepted the position of
Director of Operations of the NBC affiliate, WCNC-TV in Charlotte,
North Carolina. His talents there were utilized in the rebuilding of
their new studio facilities as well as the new facilities of the NBC
News Channel. Since completion of that project, he has also been
responsible for the award-winning designs of Broadcast House of WJAR-TV
in Providence, Rhode Island, the Providence Journal Washington News
Bureau, Northwest Cable News and the KING-TV newsrooms in Seattle,
facilities of KHNL in Honolulu, as well as of the America's Health
Network in Orlando, Florida.
He is the holder of two television equipment patents and has served
on two of the FCC's committees that advised the FCC on the
implementation of the High Definition Television Standard.
Dave resides presently in Montgomery, Alabama, the home city for
Raycom Media with his Computer Engineer wife of over 32 years,
Kathleen.
Mary Carole McDonnell - EVP
Programming
As Executive Vice President of Programming, Mary
Carole McDonnell has the important responsibility of advising Raycom
Media on program development and the Raycom television stations on
programming and ratings strategy. In addition, she negotiates with
program suppliers on behalf of the 36 stations that stretch from Syracuse to Honolulu.
McDonnell joined Raycom Media in January 1999, from Vice President
of Programming and Marketing for Argyle Television in Los Angeles.
During her career, McDonnell worked in programming at the station
level and cable. She was also co-editor of a publication focusing on
operational issues in the broadcast business.
Billy McDowell - VP, Research
 Billy
McDowell joined Raycom in February 2004 to oversee all research
related activities for the Raycom owned television stations.
Previously he spent over 14 years with NBC in the Television
Stations Division working in WTVJ – Miami, WNBC – New York, and for
the past 7 years as Vice President, Research of the stations
division. His responsibilities included the 14 NBC Owned and
Operated stations, the 15 Telemundo Owned and Operated stations and
the NBC National Sales Organization. His past experience also
includes sales, marketing and research roles at WTLV and WJKS in
Jacksonville.
McDowell serves as Chairman of the NAB Committee on Local Television
Audience Measurement (COLTAM). He is also active on the Board of the
Media Ratings Council and the Nielsen Policy Guidelines Committee.
He has also been involved in a variety of industry organizations
such as Broadcast Research Initiative and TVB’s National Sales
Advisory Committee. He received a BA from Samford University in
Birmingham, Alabama and a MS degree in Media Management from The
Florida State University. He also completed extensive post-graduate
work in marketing at Nova University in Ft. Lauderdale.
Susana Schuler - VP,
News
 Susana Schuler joined Raycom Media in February 2006 to oversee Raycom Media’s growing group of news operations. Schuler is responsible for oversight of the product, people, ratings, research, content and community involvement of the news operations. Prior to coming aboard Schuler was VP/Corporate News Director for Nexstar Broadcasting Group in Irving, Texas for 9 years with oversight of that company’s 27 news operations across the country. Prior to joining Nexstar Schuler served in News Management roles in Pennsylvania, Indiana and Texas as well as anchor, reporter, producer and assignment manager roles in Texas and Pennsylvania.
Schuler is a Cum Laude graduate of Texas Christian University with a BS degree in Broadcast Journalism and a minor in Business. She is has been an active member of the Radio Television News Directors Association (RTNDA). She is currently a Board member of the Broadcast Advisory Board of the Associated Press. Schuler also has served on advisory boards for the University of North Texas, Ball State University and Eastern Illinois University. Schuler also volunteers for the American Cancer Society, Race for the Cure and the American Red Cross. In 2002 Broadcasting & Cable Magazine named Schuler one of the Next Wave of Women in Communications to watch in the future. She is a first generation American born to Chilean parents. As a news woman she has the dubious distinction of giving birth to her daughter on September 11, 2001. Schuler, her husband Ray Willingham and younger daughter Monica live in Montgomery, Alabama. Their older daughter Cassey
lives in California.
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