Jon Petrovich, a longtime broadcasting executive who spent many years at CNN and later supervised Associated Press Television, died February 10, 2011, in New York City. He would have turned 64 on February 28.

Born in Gary, Indiana, Petrovich began his career in 1970 as a reporter at WHAS-TV in Louisville, Kentucky. Later, while working as news director at WBAL-TV in Baltimore, the station won an Edward R. Murrow Award for best regional newscast.

He served as executive vice president of CNN for 15 years, where he developed CNN Interactive, which produces CNN.com, CNN en Español and other targeted channels.

He also held the title of president of Turner Broadcasting Latin America for two years.

After CNN, he spent three years as an executive vice president at Sony Pictures Television International in Los Angeles.

Petrovich then went on to become a professor and chairman of the broadcast department at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. In the 1990s he was a visiting distinguished lecturer and a member of the school’s board of advisers.

In 2007 he went to work for the Associated Press as vice president for broadcast U.S. operations. In this position, he worked closely with AP’s broadcast wire, online, radio and television platforms.

Survivors include his wife, a daughter, a son and three grandchildren.