Las Vegas Sun

May 8, 2024

Services set for television executive DiMeolo

Services for longtime Las Vegas broadcasting executive Bill DiMeolo are slated for tonight and Friday. He died Sunday at age 72.

A memorial service for the 2003 inductee into the Nevada Broadcasters Hall of Fame is scheduled for 6 p.m. today at Desert Memorial Cremation and Burial Society, 1111 Las Vegas Blvd. North. A graveside service will be 10 a.m. Friday at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City.

DiMeolo, who spent a half century in television and radio broadcasting, was vice president and general manager of KVVU Channel 5 during the 1970s and guided the station through its formative years.

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