Media Moves

Graham Media Group, which moved its headquarters back to Detroit following the retirement of Emily Barr as President/CEO, has named a VP and Chief Innovation Officer while promoting from within its new Director of Innovation.

Four candidates from the radio broadcasting industry - within the sales, marketing, programming, and digital disciplines - will be selected for the 2022 program.

She will begin her new role in early April and arrives at CBS News from Vice News, where she most recently served as deputy bureau chief in Los Angeles. She began her career in television in 2002 as part of NBC’s page program.

Bonneville International has named a veteran radio executive to lead its Denver stations. She'll succeed Bob Call, who recently retired after more than 50 years in the radio industry.

The parent company of the popular and omnipresent Christian Contemporary Music (CCM) noncommercial radio networks K-LOVE and Air1 has selected a new Chief Legal Officer. He's inbound from Nissan North America, where he served as VP/General Counsel and Secretary.

The elections took place Tuesday at the Board of Directors meeting in New York City. “We’re delighted to announce these esteemed individuals ... as members of our Board,” said Scott Herman, Chairman of the Broadcasters Foundation of America.

A general partner with a venture capital franchise focused on companies active in video game studios, NFTs, social platforms and financial marketplaces has taken a seat on the Board of Directors for the nation's largest creator and distributor of audio content.

When it comes to Hispanic media ad sales pros, Steve Mandala is perhaps one of the best-known and most respected leaders. Now Chief Revenue and Local Media Officer at Estrella Media, Mandala has bolstered his sales team at the Burbank, Calif.-headquartered multimedia company by promoting seven executives to leadership positions.

He was a finalist for Radio Ink Market Manager of the Year in both 2019 and 2020 in recognition of time at the helm of iHeartMedia's Poughkeepsie, N.Y. radio stations. Since 2018, he's been running the company's Indianapolis stations as a Market President. Now, he's taken I-70 east to I-75 and traveled a couple of hours to Ohio's Gem City.

Live broadcast technology company Mobile TV Group (MTVG) is welcoming its first-ever VP of Technology. It's a move the company founded in 1993 in Denver is heralding as part of its overall growth and desire to increase its TV industry business.

Seven years after saying goodbye to leading a local broadcast television operation, Becky Butcher is back in the building. This time, however, she's taking on a bigger role in overseeing not only the NBC and CW Network affiliates she ran for 17 years but also the FOX affiliate serving three mid-Michigan cities.

He's a past-president of the Arkansas Broadcasters Association and was presented with the Association’s Silver Mic Award in 2000. He also previously served as a former board chairman of NAB’s Small-Medium Market Radio Committee and completed NAB’s Executive Development Program for Radio.

An advanced advertising company focused on "audience-based campaigns" in television has promoted three new members to its executive team. The leadership elevation of the trio of OpenAP leaders comes at a time of "significant growth" for the operation, which recently saw Discovery Inc. become a minority owner.

She's fondly remembered for her 12 years at Interep, her 17 years as Publisher of now-defunct industry trade Radio & Records and as a 25-year-old General Manager of WXLO "99x" in New York for RKO General in the late 1970s. Today, Erica Farber is President/CEO of the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB), and it's a role she'll be keeping for a couple of more years.

As RBR+TVBR first reported in December 2021, Craig Karmazin-led Good Karma Brands agreed to pay $15 million to The Walt Disney Company for WEPN-AM in New York, KSPN-AM in L.A., and WMVP-AM in Chicago. GKB is also acquiring Disney's LMA agreement with Emmis that has allowed WEPN to simulcast on 98.7 MHz in N.Y. Now, GKB has revealed who will lead the Gotham and SoCal properties.