Hank Price, is a veteran television executive who has led some of the nation s most prominent stations including WBBM-TV, the CBS owned station in Chicago, KARE-TV, the Gannett-owned NBC affiliate in Minneapolis/St. Paul, WXII-TV in Winston-Salem, NC and WFMY-TV in Greensboro, NC. He is currently the President & General Manager of WVTM-TV, the Hearst-owned NBC affiliate in Birmingham, Al. Since 2000 Price has also been Senior Director of Northwestern University s Media Management Center where he concentrates on future journalism and business models. Earlier in his career Price was a national television consultant with Frank N. Magid Associates. A frequent speaker at industry events, in 2000… Price was named a "Fifth Estater "by "Broadcasting & Cable Magazine "for innovation in television news. In 2010 he was given the North Carolina Association of Broadcast s Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding contributions to broadcasting. That same year he was named a member of University of Southern Mississippi s Journalism Hall of Fame.