Primary Job Title President Primary Organization Cox Media Group
Location United States, North America Gender Male
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Bill Hoffman is president of Cox Media Group (CMG), an integrated broadcasting, publishing and digital media subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, Inc., based in Atlanta, Ga. Bill also coordinates syndicated programming for the television stations, oversees the Cox Washington Television Bureau and represents the Cox stations to the television industry.
Previously, he was executive vice president of Broadcast for CMG where he oversaw the majority CMG’s radio and television operations, as well as CMG’s corporate Revenue efforts.
Bill joined Cox in 1979 as an account executive with TeleRep in Detroit and has held a number of roles within the company. Those include vice president and general manager of WFTV/WRDQ in Orlando and at WSB-TV Atlanta, director of sales at the same WFTV/WRDQ, local sales manager at WSB-TV, local and national sales manager at WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, and national sales manager at WPXI in Pittsburgh.
Bill was exposed to the television business early in his development by his father, Pete Hoffman, one of the founders of McHugh and Hoffman, a news research and consultancy firm.
Hoffman is an alumnus of Leadership Atlanta, Class of 2009 and serves on the Boards of Directors for the Anti-Defamation League Southeast Region and for Chattahoochee Riverkeeper. He also serves on the National Association of Broadcasters TV Board of Directors, the Broadcasters Foundation of America and on the ABC Board of Governors where he was a former Chairman.
Hoffman earned Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from Michigan State. He and his wife, Joan, have a son, Douglas, and a daughter, Teddie.
