William H. Dilday Jr., First Black Station General Manager, Has Died

William Dilday, former WLBT GM, and Ted Fortenberry, current WLBT GM

William H. Dilday Jr., the first Black TV station general manager in the U.S., died July 27 at the age of 85. He had sustained complications following a fall and died in Newton, Massachusetts. 

Dilday was also part of a group that acquired a station in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the first U.S. station with Black owners.