The University of Utah’s two public broadcasting stations — radio station KUER and TV station KUED, also known as NPR Utah and PBS Utah — will soon answer to the same boss.
Maria O’Mara, who has been general manager at KUER for the last three years, will become executive director of both broadcasters, effective Feb. 1, the radio station announced Thursday.
O’Mara’s promotion is part of a restructuring of the two stations’ management. Joel Meyer, now KUER’s director of programming and promotion, will become KUER’s station manager. Ja’Naye Payne, who is now KUER’s development director, will take a new post of assistant director of philanthropy for both stations, working with O’Mara and KUED’s Alice Webber.