Media Moves

An individual with 35 years of experience and "a track record of innovative and strategic leadership" has shifted into the VP/GM role of the CBS and MyNetworkTV affiliates in Kansas City. 

After 13 years, there's a change in the role of Managing Director at one of the nation's biggest media brokerage firms. At the same time, it is welcoming a Research Director widely known for his experience as a software developer and voice artist.

The Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS)-owned Aire Radio Networks has added an EVP/National Radio Sales and a SVP/National Radio Sales for the national radio platform which creates, distributes and markets Spanish-language radio programming across the U.S.

This individual will transition from her current role in sales oversight for the five Neuhoff markets to her new VP/Market Manager position. She will also continue to serve as Corporate Vice President/Special Projects for the company.

Entercom has followed the lead of CBS Radio by making major announcements via staff memos that eventually make it into the hands of the radio industry trade press. As first reported by Streamline Publishing's co-owned Radio INK, Entercom Market Managers will be adding the SVP title. For industry veterans, the big news involves the naming of a well-known former executive as SVP/Market Manager of Entercom's properties in the nation's No. 3 market.

Greg Ashlock and Hartley Adkins have just been promoted in a big way by the nation’s No. 1 radio broadcaster. In his new role, Ashlock will now manage the entire iHeartMedia Markets Group, including the company’s more than 850 radio stations. Adkins will join the corporate group in New York.

A radio industry veteran perhaps best-known for his roles as COO of Westwood One and as President/COO of Metro Networks has joined Gen Media Partners (GMP) for a senior executive role.

D'Addio is a seven-year veteran of VITEC, and brings more than 25 years of video expertise and executive leadership to his new role. 

There's a new EVP/Insights, Research and Data Analytics at iHeartMedia, starting Nov. 27, and this individual comes on board after a decade running her own consultancy following stints at Yahoo! and bbdo, where she began her career 25 years ago. She replaces Radha Subramanyam, who is taking a big research post at CBS Corp.

A name that's very familiar to Chicagoland media veterans and longtime radio industry professionals has resurfaced on the commercial side of the Windy City's radio dial. Marv Nyren is returning to his old stomping grounds. Only, the stations once owned by Emmis are now owned by Cumulus Media.

Entercom is moving closer to its Reverse Morris Trust-fueled merger with CBS Radio, and on Tuesday President/CEO David Field revealed in a staff memo that several individuals are adding SVP stripes. Six other staffers were singled out, and are being promoted "for their performance and leadership."

For 33 years, this individual led the engineering efforts of all Greater Media stations. With the company's sale to Beasley Broadcast Group, it was time for a change ... or retirement. The former was selected, and the result is the rebranding of an engineering consultancy that directly acknowledges his arrival.

A veteran of Edison Research who served as a VP from 2003-2014 has come on board to lead Jacobs Media' expanding research initiatives in radio and digital media. He previously spent a year as Director/Customer Insights at Clarion Research, exiting the post in 2015.

The Board of Directors of the Arkansas Broadcasters Association (ABA) has gone to Georgia to name the group's new Executive Director.

Radio One has promoted the VP/GM of its Atlanta radio stations to a Regional Vice President position. The move gives this nine-year veteran of the Urban One radio division's Peachtree City stations new duties that now include Reach Media, the radio programming syndication arm of publicly traded Urban One.