Media Moves

The man who has served as News Director of "FOX 31" in Denver and sibling KWGN, the market's home for The CW, has accepted the role of President/GM of the ABC affiliate serving Norfolk owned by the company formerly known as Gannett. He'll join the station in one week.

All Entries in NYF’s 2024 Radio Awards will be judged by the NYF Grand Jury of 100+ producers, directors, writers, and other creative media professionals from around the globe. Entries are judged on production values, creativity, content presentation, direction, writing, achievement of purpose, and audience suitability.

Benztown, the radio imaging, voiceover, programming, podcasting and jingles company, has shared that a "key member" of its affiliate sales team will be retiring at year's end, concluding a 40-year career.

She spent a decade as Director of Sales for Cumulus Media's Providence, R.I., radio stations and was then upped to VP/GM. Now, this company veteran is being promoted and will not only oversee the cluster, but the company's stations in nearby New London, Conn., too.

Consulting and research firm Jacobs Media and leading mobile application development company jācapps is welcoming a Director of Digital and Revenue Generation. At the same time, Seth Resler is exiting his role as a digital strategy consultant.

The Ford C. Frick Award is presented annually for excellence in broadcasting by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Next year, it will be awarded to the radio voice of the Boston Red Sox.

It's a promotion to the C-Suite for the woman who until now has been the Senior Vice President and Market Manager of Audacy Inc.'s Chicago radio stations. We know who her successor is for a group of stations largely comprised of former CBS Radio properties.

Across the globe, the name Tom Brady is well-known. Now, another man with the same name as the retired National Football League star quarterback is gaining notice in the radio sales realm.

The provider of customized network, broadcast and digital signage systems and services, has a new VP of International Sales, with an emphasis on Latin American markets.

Call it "global warming." Call it a "climate shift." No matter where you stand on the matter, how the weather will impact you and future generations is a hot topic. As such, CBS News and Stations is adding a "senior climate producer" to its team while shifting a CBS News team member to the climate beat. 

Since October 2015, she has served as VP/Market Manager of the company's radio brands serving Syracuse, N.Y. Now, she's adding responsibilities in two markets that had been under the leadership of Jim Riley.

He has been the news director at a Wisconsin NBC affiliate since the end of 2021 and began his career in television nearly 25 years ago at WTMJ-4 in Milwaukee. Now, he's been promoted to Station Manager, an opportunity he finds particularly rewarding as he has called the state home for his entire career.

There is a new EVP for Programming at the Paramount+ streaming app, while the "FAST" channel platform Pluto TV also has a new EVP of Programming, the parent company of CBS News & Stations has confirmed.

It's a newly created role at TelevisaUnivision "designed to accelerate the company’s client relations for more brands to engage with U.S. Hispanic consumers authentically in-language and in-culture." Who's taking it? Look no further than the individual who from 2008-2010 was Univision Communications' VP of Marketing and Business Intelligence.

A one-hour television and radio special of the 2023 Celebration of Service to America Awards will air nationally on over 700 local television and radio broadcast stations across the country beginning November 27, through December 24.