Longtime general manager planning to retire

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Thursday, July 24, 2003 | 11:14 a.m.

Dick Fraim, president and general manager of KLAS-TV, has announced his retirement, effective Jan. 1.

Replacing Fraim as head of the Las Vegas CBS Network affiliate will be Emily Neilson, who is now KLAS director of new business and programming. She will become station manager on Aug. 1 and general manager and president on Jan. 1, Fraim said.

On Jan. 1, Fraim will have been with the 50-year-old station for 14 years. He has been with Norfolk, Va.-based Landmark Communications, which owns KLAS, for 38 years. KLAS has about 175 employees, and its 11 p.m. newscast is seen in about 194,000 homes each week.