Tim Wieland

News Director, KCNC-TV, Denver, CO

Tim Wieland, a veteran employee of CBS4, KCNC-TV, has been News Director since June 2004. Wieland brings more than 20 years of broadcast journalism experience to CBS4.

His most recent tenure at KCNC-TV began in 2001 when he was hired as Assistant News Director. Since joining KCNC, the News Department has received several industry honors, including the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award, three national Edward R. Murrow Awards, several regional Murrow Awards including the award for Overall Excellence, and dozens of Emmy Awards.

Before that, Wieland 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, Wieland 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.

An Emmy Award winning journalist, Wieland is a 1991 graduate of the University of Colorado with a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism. In 2010, Wieland was recognized by the Denver Business Journal as a “Forty Under 40” winner for his leadership in business and the community.