Stefan Hadl

Stefan Hadl was named senior vice president of broadcast engineering and technology for Hearst Television in 2022 after serving as the company’s vice president of engineering, since 2019. 

Hadl joined Hearst Television in 1995 as a broadcast engineer at KCRA-TV, later to become part of the company’s Sacramento, California, duopoly, KCRA-TV/KQCA-TV. After subsequently serving as director of engineering at Hearst Television’s WMUR-TV in Manchester, New Hampshire, he returned to KCRATV/KQCA-TV as director of engineering. In 2015, Hadl became director of engineering and operations of Hearst Television’s WCVB-TV in Boston. In 2017 he was promoted to the director of engineering, eastern region and in 2019 to the role of vice president of engineering for Hearst Television.

Hadl began his career in broadcast engineering while in the United States Air Force, earning his discharge as a television equipment specialist noncommissioned officer in charge at Los Angeles Air Force Base. He holds an associate degree in electronic systems technology from the Community College of the Air Force. He is a member of the Society of Broadcast Engineers and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.