KTVT general manager Steve Mauldin aims to make CBS 11 number 1

Anyone who knows about Dallas-Fort Worth television knows it will be hard to take WFAA Channel 8's top ratings spot. Don't tell KTVT general manager Steve Mauldin that. He aims to make CBS 11 the number one station:

Steve Mauldin, president and general manager of KTVT-TV (CBS 11) and KTXA-TV (TXA 21), already has an advanced degree in adversity. He never knew his absentee father; has a daughter with autism, now 19; and he’s a six-year survivor of often fatal Stage 4 tongue cancer.

“When you have those kinds of experiences, they fill a gap in your life,” Mauldin, 60, says during an expansive interview in the stations’ Fort Worth offices. “They sensitize you to things you didn’t feel before. So I’m like everybody else. I’m a combination of all those bumps and bruises and whipped cream and cherries and all the other good stuff.” READ MORE

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