Jack Rohe Howard (August 31, 1910 – March 22, 1998) was an American broadcasting executive.
[1] Born in Manhattan, the son of Roy W. Howard, a founder of United Press International, he attended Phillips Exeter Academy and in 1932 graduated from Yale.
[1] He talked his father, then head of Scripps-Howard newspapers,[2] out of closing Denver's Rocky Mountain News in 1940 and, while serving with the US Navy in World War II, he participated in the landings at Leyte and Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines.
[1] According to The New York Times, "His career was marked by his determination to set his own course and to bring the company his father helped establish into the fledgling field of broadcasting.
[1] The Scripps-owned NBC station KTEW-TV in Tulsa, Oklahoma changed its call letters in honor of Howard on July 14, 1980, to KJRH-TV.