Local PBS affiliate KCPT Channel 19 announced today that Kliff Kuehl (pictured) has been hired as the station's new president and CEO. The deal ends an eight-month search to replace Victor Hogstrom. Kuehl starts April 6. To work here, 47-year-old Kuehl leaves behind PBS station KNPB in Nevada. Before he shot shows in Reno just to watch them die, he ran the PBS affiliate in Waco, Texas, where he's from. (The Star's reliable Aaron Barnhart gets Kuehl's CV out of the file cabinet in more detail,