Bob Kroeger

About Bob Kroeger

Bob Kroeger is Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer at Gray Media. Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States.

Strategic results-oriented leader and partner in television broadcast engineering and information technology. Leveraging twenty-eight years of experience as an innovative information technologist and television broadcast innovator, enhancing the business through executive leadership; progressive technology direction and implementation while ensuring operational reliability and availability. Skilled at evaluating and managing technology including mergers and acquisitions; experienced in disaster recovery and vendor management. • ROI Focused: achieved a $750,000 yearly savings by replacing companywide MPLS WAN infrastructure with SD-WAN and scalable point-to-point Ethernet circuits • Instituted the use of AI closed captioning for news programing, not requiring live captioning, saving over $100,000 a year • Designed and managed company-wide rollout of new video sharing system with no down time and reduced yearly operating costs by 50% • Provided leadership vision for a complex multi-dimensional Enterprise Information Technology environment, guiding daily operations and policy implementation utilizing strategic and decisive executive decision-making • Collaborate with executive team to design state of the art information architecture technology systems to enhance business outcomes ensuring system security and business continuity across 44 locations • Perform Mergers and Acquisitions diligence of television stations and production companies. Lead IT and Engineering integration of acquired companies

Skills

• Broadcast
• Television
• Radio

Additional experience

• Vice President, Chief Information Officer

  Gray Media

  December 2024 – August 2025

Education

• Bachelor's degree, Northern Kentucky University
• Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Northern Kentucky University