The 2006 Genii Awards 50th Anniversary Gala

Excellence in Broadcasting Genii
Paula Madison
KNBC President & General Manager
NBC/Telemundo LA Regional GM
http://www.nbc4.tv/index.html

Paula Madison is the President and General Manager of KNBC, NBC's owned and operated station in Los Angeles. Named to the position in November 2000, she is the first African American woman to become general manager at a network-owned station in a top five market. She was also named Regional General Manager for the NBC/Telemundo television stations in Los Angeles (KNBC, KVEA and KWHY), when the NBC network purchased the Telemundo network in April 2002. From February 2000 to May 2002, in addition to her role as KNBC’s President and General Manager, Madison served as the Vice President and Senior Vice President of Diversity for the NBC network.

Madison joined NBC4 from WNBC, NBC's station in New York, where she was the station's Vice President and News Director since March 1996. She joined WNBC in 1989 as assistant news director. From 1982 to 1989, Madison worked at KHOU-TV in Houston, Texas, KOTV-TV in Tulsa Oklahoma and WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas. After graduating from Vassar College, Madison began her career as reporter and editor at newspapers in New York and Dallas/Fort Worth.

Under Madison’s direction, KNBC continues to be one of the top, if not the top, ad revenue-generating stations in the market. It is Madison’s commitment to rigorous journalism and her avid dedication to the community that has helped the station earn numerous prestigious industry awards, including local area Emmy, Golden Mike and Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for “Best Newscast” and “Best Investigative Reporting.” Madison has also received a significant number of honors for corporate leadership and community outreach. In 2005, Madison was named one of the 75 Most Powerful African Americans in Corporate America by Black Enterprise Magazine. She is also consistently included in the Hollywood Reporter’s “Power 100,” the magazine’s list of most powerful female executives in Hollywood. Additionally, Madison received the “Citizen of the Year Award” from the City of Los Angeles Marathon (2004) and the Anti-Defamation League “Deborah Award” (2003), among many others.

A native of Harlem, New York, Madison and her husband reside in Los Angeles and have one daughter, Imani, a physician who is a resident in psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.

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