Tribune Names Chandler Bigelow As Chief Financial Officer

March 24 (Reuters)

Privately held Tribune Co named Chandler Bigelow as chief financial officer, effective immediately.

Bigelow, who has been its vice president/treasurer since 2003, succeeds Don Grenesko, who is retiring, the company said.

The debt-laden newspaper publisher and broadcaster went private in a buyout last year led by real estate tycoon Sam Zell.

Grenesko, who served as the company's CFO for the past 17 years, and Bigelow were instrumental in closing its going-private transaction, the company said.

(Reporting by Ratul Ray Chaudhuri in Bangalore; Editing by Deepak Kannan)