Brian Jones became Co-Chief Operating Officer for Nexstar Broadcasting on May 28, 2008. He has operating responsibility for the Nexstar owned or operated television stations located in the states of Texas, Louisiana, Utah, and Montana as well as all of Nexstar's New Media and IT initiatives. Before that, he served as Senior Vice-President and Regional Manager for Nexstar since 2003. Mr. Jones came to Nexstar from CBS owned KTVT (CBS) and KTXA (IND) in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas where he was Vice-President & General Manager for seven years. Prior to that, he was Station Manager and held various Sales management positions at KTVT, Sales positions at MMT Sales Inc., KXAS (NBC) Dallas-Fort Worth and News positions at KLBK (CBS) Lubbock, Texas and KXAN (NBC) Austin, Texas. Altogether, he has 30 years of experience in the television industry. Mr. Jones serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Texas Association of Broadcasters, and is a member of the National Association of Broadcasters Small Market Advisory Committee as well as the Southern Methodist University School of Journalism Advisory Board. He is a Past- Chairman of the FOX Affiliates Association Board of Governors and also served on the CBS Affiliate Association Board of Directors.