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He's been associated with KXLN-45 since 2014 and rose from VP/Sales Director to VP/Station Manager for the TelevisaUnivision station. Now, he's risen to the role of President/GM. And, he's grabbing the reins of the company's radio stations in the market. 

On-air personalities at one of the nation's most-watched Spanish-language broadcast television stations — anchors and reporters alike — have overwhelmingly voted for unionization, with representation by SAG-AFTRA.

He is a former FCC Chairman and Commissioner as well as the agency's ex-General Counsel who has become one of the most prominent media and telecom lawyers in the U.S. On March 6, he'll be honored as the recipient of the Broadcasters Foundation of America's 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Two respected Wall Street media analysts each released their latest investor outlooks on OTT giant Netflix on Friday. One financial house raised its target price on NFLX by $10 to $250. The other took a far more aggressive leap, hiking it by $25 to a year-end target price of $400.

A virtual Town Hall conducted Thursday by the NAB served as a dissemination point for the nation's biggest advocacy organization serving broadcast radio and television to share what its plan of action on Capitol Hill is for the next 12 months, now that the 118th Congressional Session has commenced and Cathy McMorris Rodgers is now Chair of the powerful House Energy & Commerce Committee.

What will come in 2023 for the OTT giant will now be under the day-to-day purview of co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters. That's because Reed Hastings is going by the titles of founder and Executive Chairman. And, that seems to be positive news for investors, as Netflix was up sharply in immediate after-hours trading on Thursday.

The initiative, which sees the television advertising advocacy group team up with the 4A's and CIMM, will involve "an extensive program of research, consultation, and engagement with the industry, helping to identify and evaluate the options for buyers and sellers."

The CW Network, owned by Nexstar, and LIV Golf have agreed to the golf league's first-ever U.S. broadcast television and streaming agreement. It's a multi-year agreement, beginning with the 2023 LIV Golf League season. The CW Network will air 14 global LIV Golf League live events in 2023 and will stream the events live on The CW App.

The Copyright Royalty Judges on Wednesday announced the receipt of a notice of intent to audit the 2019, 2020 and 2021 statements of account submitted by the second-largest licensee of FM radio stations in the U.S. Concurrently, the judges confirmed that SoundExchange wants to audit statements of account for those three years for Cox Media Group and Bonneville, and for a major Canadian audio media company with a U.S. presence via MVPDs.

In 2021, he became VP/Business Development of Univision Communications. As of today, he's the new SVP of Non-Traditional Revenue for CBS Stations, reporting to President of Sales Julio Marenghi. 

The nation's largest broadcast TV station ownership group and parent of both NewsNation and the CW Network has unveiled a new advertising sales structure and leadership organization. Nexstar says it is designed to drive ad sales across its media offerings "by further emphasizing its client-first approach, combined with a new data-driven, multi-platform focus."

It's officially "OEA Working Paper 54," but for the media industry, it is the Kim Makuch-authored "Television Station Ownership Diversity" report produced for the FCC. It offers the conclusions of a Commission study that examines the ownership of commercial full-power television stations. What was the big conclusion?

RBR+TVBR on Thursday independently confirmed the departure of three longtime audio division leaders at Nielsen. A few days later, the individual who had served as SVP/Sales Manager for National Audio Services since August 2016 took to LinkedIn to comment on his departure.

A high-profile U.S. Senator on Thursday, in a letter sent directly to the Chairwoman of the FCC, expressed her "serious concerns" over TEGNA’s pending acquisition by Standard General. Now, Soohyung Kim, who heads Standard General, has directly responded to Elizabeth Warren.

Studio renovations at the CW Network affiliate serving Indianapolis owned by DuJuan McCoy-led Circle City Broadcasting are now complete. As such, the Indiana broadcaster believes WISH-8 now has "the most technologically advanced news set in the Indianapolis market."