Gary M. Cocola

Gary M. Cocola is the owner of Cocola Broadcasting Companies, LLC, which is headquartered in Fresno, California.

Cocola Broadcasting Companies is the licensee of television stations serving the Fresno, Bakersfield, Sacramento, Santa Maria, Arroyo Grande, Chico/Redding and Monterey, California television markets. Cocola Broadcasting also operates several television stations in the Boise, Idaho market.

Mr. Cocola got his start in the television industry by working at a local TV station while he was attending San Joaquin Memorial High School. He later hosted his own programs on both radio and television in the Fresno, Bakersfield and Monterey markets while enrolled Fresno State College.

In l985, after a seven-year effort to obtain a construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission, he built Channel 59/KMSG-TV in Fresno

The following year, he formed Cocola Broadcasting Companies with the launch of KGMC-TV/Channel 43 currently the Fresno market’s MundoFox affiliate. KGMC also carries Azteca America, Daystar, Home Shopping Network, Antenna TV and Me-TV on its sub channels. Channel 43.1 is also carried on the Comcast Cable system, Dish, DirecTV and ATT U-verse systems. Today, Cocola Broadcasting operates a total of 55 streams of video on the converted stations.

Cocola, who has been one of the major players in local television in Central California for decades through his Cocola Broadcasting Companies, is launching a weekly entertainment program.

“Monterey on Tonight with Gary Morris,” a new entertainment and information show that will be produced and hosted by Gary Cocola on Monterey’s KMBY, Channel 19.4. The three-hour program will be a blend of interviews with local business owners, artisans, non-profit representatives and people who just have an interesting story to tell with music videos selected by Cocola.

“I am doing it because I want to have fun. I want to have a good time, who will go by the name Gary Morris as the host of the new TV show .   More than a half century ago, he appeared as a panelist on the Fresno series “Open House” and as the host of “TV Record Hop.”

Cocola will be giving others in the Monterey area a chance to share in the fun of “The only real stipulation is that we are looking to focus on the community.”

“Monterey on Tonight with Gary Morris” will be available through streaming at www.kmbytv.com.

Gary Cocola and his wife Juliana reside in Carmel, California.

For more information about Gary Cocola, please contact info@creativeanddreamsmusicnetwork.com.

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