KSTP-TV Channel 5 names Andrea Creech as Director of Marketing 10/15/03

KSTP-TV Channel 5, the Twin Cities' ABC network affiliate, has promoted Andrea Creech to Director of Marketing, effective immediately. Creech has served as Creative Services Director for Channel 5's independent sister station KSTC.TV, Channel 45. KSTP-TV and KSTC.TV are locally owned and operated by Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc.

Creech came to Hubbard Broadcasting as Promotion Manager in June 2000 to help launch Hubbard's newest television station, KSTC.TV Channel 45, which debuted in September of that year. Only two years later she was promoted to Creative Services Director of Channel 45. Prior to joining Hubbard Broadcasting, Creech served as Promotion Manger at KXAS-TV in Dallas, Texas; Producer/Editor at WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio; and Promotion Producer at KF0R-TV in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She earned her Bachelors degree in mass communications and speech communications from St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota.

KSTP-TV, home of Channel 5 Eyewitness News, was the first television station to sign on in the upper midwest and today remains the only locally-owned, locally-operated television news station in Minneapolis and Saint Paul.

Hubbard Broadcasting owns and operates six other television stations in Minnesota including KSAX-TV, Alexandria; KRWF-TV, Redwood Falls; WDIO-TV, Duluth; WIRT-TV, Hibbing; KAAL, Austin; and KSTC.TV, Minneapolis-Saint Paul. Among Hubbard's television properties outside of Minnesota are WHEC-TV, Rochester, New York and WNYT-TV, Albany, New York plus three stations in New Mexico: KOB-TV, Albuquerque; KOBF-TV, Farmington; and KOBR-TV, Roswell. Hubbard Broadcasting also owns radio stations in Minneapolis/Saint Paul including KSTP-AM 1500, KS95-FM, and FM-107 WFMP, plus the Hubbard Radio Network.