Gray’s NBC affiliate in Lansing, Mich., taps WDIO Duluth, Minn., news chief to succeed Barbara Roethler.
By Mark K. Miller | May 3, 2021 | 9:52 a.m. ET.
Gray Television’s NBC affiliate WILX Lansing, Mich., has hired Mike Schram as news director. He will be just the third news director at the station in the past 24 years. He follows in the footsteps of longtime News Director Kevin Ragan, and most recently Barbara Roethler, who left for a leadership position with the Detroit Dept. of Public Health.
He is returning Mid-Michigan, an area that he knows well. After graduating from Michigan State University’s School of Journalism, he started his career as a newscast producer in Lansing. He then spent several years at WJRT Flint, before returning to Lansing as an assistant news director for five years.