Tim Wieland

Tim Wieland, a veteran employee of KCNC-TV, is the General Manager at CBS Colorado and CBS Los Angeles.

Tim 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 later became News Director and in 2021 became GM. Since joining KCNC, the News Department has received several industry honors, including the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award in 2006, three national Edward R. Murrow Awards, several regional Murrow Awards including the award for Overall Excellence, and dozens of Emmy Awards.

Before that, Tim 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, Tim 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.

Tim is active in the Denver community and is involved in several philanthropic organizations. He is on the board of Raise the Future and the Denver Health Foundation. He has also served as a board member for Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver and for the College of Media, Communication, and Information at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Tim has volunteered as a mentor in Denver Public Schools and for the "Boots to Suits" program which helps military veterans return to the workplace.

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An Emmy Award winning journalist, Tim 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.