Tim Wieland

About

Tim Wieland, a veteran employee of KCNC-TV, is the President and General Manager of CBS Colorado.Wieland brings 30+ years of broadcast journalism experience to CBS Colorado. His most recent tenure at KCNC-TV began in 2001 when he was hired as Assistant News Director. He became News Director in 2004 and then General Manager in 2021. Since joining KCNC, the News Department has received several industry honors, including the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award, three national Edward R. Murrow Awards, several regional Murrow Awards including the award for Overall Excellence, and dozens of Emmy Awards including the Emmy Awards for News Excellence and Overall Excellence.Before that, Wieland was a Newscast Producer and Field Producer for CNN based in Atlanta. As field producer, he traveled to stories such as the Columbine High School shooting in 1999 and the Democratic and Republican National Conventions in 2000. Before CNN, Wieland spent seven years at KCNC writing and producing newscasts and was later promoted to Executive Producer. He started his broadcast journalism career as a reporter at KREX-TV in Grand Junction, Colorado. Wieland is active in the Denver community and is involved in several philanthropic organizations. He is on the board of Raise the Future, the Denver Health Foundation, and the College of Media, Communication and Information at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Wieland has also served on the board of Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver and volunteered as a mentor for the "Boots to Suits" program which helps military veterans return to the workplace.An Emmy Award winning journalist, Wieland is a 1991 graduate of the University of Colorado with a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism. He is also a graduate of the Newsroom Management program at the Poynter Institute.