Bangura Named WADL Detroit GM

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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David Bangura has been named president/general manager of WADL Detroit. He had been president and general manager of Granite Broadcasting’s WMYD Detroit from 2009-2014 and was general sales manager prior to that. Scripps closed on its acquisition of WMYD, a MyNetworkTV affiliate, June 16.

Bangura also put in five years as senior account executive at WJBK Detroit.

WADL is an independent station owned by Adell Broadcasting, which also owns gospel channel The Word Network.

Bangura was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and also lived in Sierra Leone and Berlin before arriving in Michigan.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.