Media Moves

He's currently the General Sales Manager of "Arizona Sports," the Phoenix radio brand from Bonneville International Corp. Now, he's been named Director of Sales for Bonneville's Denver radio properties.

For the last five years, he's served as Program Director of two Cumulus Media stations offering listeners in the Savannah, Ga.. Now, this "E93" and "Magic 103.9" leader is being rewarded with an elevation to OM, putting him in control of everything on-air across Cumulus' stations serving the market.

Brian Wieser has become known as one of the top voices among Wall Street's financial observers. As Senior Research Analyst of Advertising at Pivotal Research Group, he boldly declared television as "the worst form of advertising except all those others which have been tried" for those with awareness-based goals. Nearly four years ago, he accepted a role at groupM. Now, Wieser is transitioning to his next opportunity.

The Development Director for River Radio Ministries' Contemporary Christian station serving Ohio's state capital has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer.

He's been with The E.W. Scripps Co. for a decade and most recently served as the director of digital at WFTS-28, "ABC Tampa Bay." Now, he'll serve as Managing Director of Brand, Revenue and Content for Scripps' "Florida 24" network, starting January 30.

The Telemundo Station Group within NBCUniversal has shifted its leadership of its owned-and-operated Telemundo stations in three Southwestern U.S. markets. In one instance, the head of the Rio Grande Valley Telemundo station is adding oversight of the Houston station. In the other, the current head of sales at KTMD-TV in Houston is shifting her duties to a pair of other markets.

On Tuesday, Chuck Wood revealed that he will retire as VP/GM of radio and TV station owner Delta Media Corp., which serves the Lafayette, La., DMA from Carencro, La. With Wood departing on February 28, Delta Media has moved forward with selecting his successor.

A year after being hired as Chief Marketing Officer for the Scripps Networks division, The E.W. Scripps Company has promoted this former SVP/Marketing and Public Relations for digital news outlet The Recount to the newly created position of CMO for the entire organization.

He began his tenure with iHeartMedia in Minneapolis in 2007, when "KFAN" was on an AM radio frequency. Today, KFAN is KFXN-FM 100.3, and this longtime digital pro who has also been a key player on the Vikings Radio Network has been named VP/Digital Sales for all of the company's stations in the Twin Cities.

For the entire Capital District of New York and the nearby Berkshires, the home of PBS and 24/7 Classical programming has been WMHT Public Media for generations. For the past 15 years, this organization has been run by Robert Altman. He's retiring. And, the individual selected to serve as the President/CEO starting January 23 has just been revealed.

CMG's Miami Radio Group includes such brands as "99 JAMZ," which has named a new Asst. Program Director, and "HOT 105," which also has a new Asst. PD. These moves come as a South Florida radio programming veteran rises to Director of Operations, overseeing those brands in addition to market-leading "Easy 93.1" and Rhythmic Hot Adult Contemporary "Hits 97.3."

Broadcast Music, Inc., commonly known as BMI, has expanded its creative team by welcoming a Vice President of Creative, Film, TV and Visual Media. In this role, this individual will lead the day-to-day functions of the department.

She's also widely known for her former role as Director of Marketing for Alpha Media. Today, she leads her nearly three-year-old media marketing and public relations firm known as P'Pool Media, and has just been elevated to the Board of Directors for the Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio, Inc. organization.

For the first time, SiriusXM will have a SVP/Chief Growth Officer, a leadership position focused on "driving SiriusXM’s enterprise-level growth strategy with oversight across a variety of key areas, including the SiriusXM streaming subscription business as well as corporate marketing, analytics and research for SiriusXM and Pandora."

He's a radio industry veteran who once served as Operations Manager and as a programming leader for Cox Media Group's Tampa-St. Petersburg station group. As of today, he's back in Tampa Bay as the new Brand Manager of Beasley Media Group's five FMs and WHFS-AM.  Oh, and he'll also program Country WQYK-FM.