Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. announced that Jim Lapiana has been named General Manager of WPGH-TV (FOX 53) and WPMY-TV (MNT 22) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mr. Lapiana succeeds Alan Frank, Group Manager, who is assuming additional regional television station oversight. Mr. Lapiana most recently and since 2001 served as Director of Sales for WPGH and WPMY.

Prior to that and from 1998, he was the General Manager of WPXT in Portland, ME. From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Lapiana was the General Manager of WRDC and WLFL in the Raleigh/Durham, NC market, two stations owned by Sinclair.