{"id":453367,"date":"2026-10-01T17:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453367\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T17:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:12:07","slug":"san-antonio-tv-news-vet-dean-radla-retires-after-30-years-at-sinclair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453367\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio TV news vet Dean Radla retires after 30 years at Sinclair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After three decades in San Antonio television, longtime station executive Dean\u00a0Radla is retiring.<\/p>\n<p>Radla, the longtime general manager of News 4 San Antonio, FOX San Antonio and CW35, retired Tuesday after 30 years with Sinclair Broadcast Group, according to a Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/dean-radla-retires-after-30-years-with-news-4-san-antonio-and-fox-san-antonio\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announcement<\/a> from News 4 San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>A native Texan and lifelong South Texas resident, Radla joined Sinclair in 1997 as the stations&#8217; director of sales before becoming general manager. He spent the past 14 years overseeing the operations of the three San Antonio stations.<\/p>\n<p>But Radla&#8217;s media career also predates his time with Sinclair. In 1979,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dean-radla-6506a513\/?isSelfProfile=false\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radla graduated<\/a> from Southwest Texas State University \u2014 now Texas State University \u2014 with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in public relations and advertising<\/p>\n<p>After that, he spent more than eight years in print media sales management, including a stint at the San Antonio Light, before returning to television.\u00a0Now, following a 30-year career with Sinclair, Radla said he is looking forward to spending more time with his family, including his seven children and 11 grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;News 4 San Antonio, FOX San Antonio, and CW35 wish Dean the best in retirement,&#8221; the stations wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After three decades in San Antonio television, longtime station executive Dean\u00a0Radla is retiring. Radla, the longtime general manager&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-453367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}