Gray Media has made some management moves at its Nebraska stations.
It’s named Shannon Booth as the next general manager of NBC affiliate WOWT in Omaha, Nebraska. She will succeed Jim McKernan, who is retiring on June 2 after a 44 year career in broadcasting.
To replace Booth, Gray named Jacque Harms general manager of Gray’s CBS affiliate KOLN and NBC affiliate KSNB in Lincoln, Nebraska, and NBC and CBS affiliates KNOP and KNPL in North Platte, Nebraska.
For the past eight years, Booth has overseen several market-leading television, digital and streaming products serving Lincoln, Grand Island, Hastings, Kearney, North Platte and many communities in between.
Booth also spent 18 years at KCRG in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she held several management positions in news, digital, marketing and creative and at WOI in Ames, Iowa, KTIV in Sioux City, Iowa, WHO in Des Moines, Iowa; and KWWL in Waterloo, Iowa.
Harms returns home to Nebraska where she began and also spent most of her more than 35-year career in the media business. She first joined the KNOP staff in North Platte on a part-time basis in 1994. Over the next several years, she served as an anchor, reporter, photographer, producer and news director.
Five years ago, she was named gm of WTOK in Meridian, Mississippi. In 2025, she relocated to Colorado Springs to become the General Manager of KKTV.
