Veteran Media Executive to Lead WRMD’s News Operations Starting in October
Tampa, Fla. – (Sept. 5, 2024) – Telemundo 49 Tampa / WRMD, part of NBCUniversal Local’s Telemundo Station Group, announced Meredith Veloz has been named News Director. She begins her new role in early October and will report to Miguelangel Lopez, Regional VP of News & Content for the Telemundo-owned stations serving Orlando, Tampa, and Fort Myers, Fla.
In this position, Veloz will oversee WRMD’s news content and operations and will lead a team of producers, reporters, and anchors covering the Tampa Bay region across the station’s TV, streaming and digital platforms. She will also oversee the Telemundo Fort Myers-Naples / WWDT news team.
Veloz is a veteran journalist with more than 16 years of experience. She joins Telemundo 49 from the NBC and Telemundo-owned stations in Philadelphia, NBC 10 and Telemundo 62, where she served as Duopoly Executive Producer, overseeing editorial for both stations for nearly 3.5 years. During her tenure, she played a pivotal role in enhancing the stations’ news coverage and audience engagement.
“Meredith is passionate about local news, has extensive experience in bilingual media, and has successfully led news editorial in several major-market stations,” said Lopez. “She is an ideal person to lead our newsroom and we are pleased to welcome her to our talented and dedicated team serving the Tampa Bay and the Southwest Florida area.”
Overall, Veloz has more than 16 years of journalism experience, including more than ten years in news leadership and production roles with NBCU Local’s stations in Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston. She served as Executive Producer for both Telemundo Chicago and Telemundo Boston, which she helped launch.
Previously, Veloz held production positions for Univision and Maria Elvira Live!, a show hosted by current U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar, in South Florida after graduating from American University with a bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science. She’s a native of Miami.
About Telemundo 49
Telemundo 49 / WRMD is Telemundo’s local owned television station serving Spanish-language viewers in the Tampa Bay area. Telemundo 49 delivers its audiences more than 10 hours of live, locally produced news each week across all platforms. WRMD’s newscasts feature local breaking news, real-time weather forecasts, consumer reports, and sports information. Telemundo 49 also airs world-class programming produced by Telemundo Network. Telemundo 49’s local news and information can be accessed by audiences across all of its platforms, including online at telemundo49.com, through its social media channels, and on local over-the-air on channel 49, Frontier channel 18, Xfinity channel 21 and Spectrum channel 19.
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