Media Moves

No less than 14 individuals are being elevated to new roles at Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of broadcast TV properties and Bally Sports RSNs, where many of the promotions are being seen.

The London-based executive is responsible for the company’s product strategy and managing an extensive product team, expanding its portfolio of video fingerprinting, watermarking and monitoring offerings.

The first Chairman for NBCUniversal Local, the division of Comcast-owned NBCU that houses its NBC and Telemundo owned-station operations, has been selected. It's a familiar figure who has been associated with NBC's O&Os for more than a decade.

The newest member to the company's leadership team is being asked to lead Audacy’s audience growth initiatives across brand strategy, creative, messaging, media planning and attribution, while also managing the company’s Alchemy function, "focused on the strategic integration of exclusive content and programming to Audacy’s listeners."

As RBR+TVBR first reported in December 2021, ViacomCBS is investing in the build-out of a news department at its owned-and-operated CBS station serving Detroit, Ann Arbor and Western Ontario. Now, it has selected a local news and community affairs veteran to serve as its News Director.

Come June 1, there will be a new leader for the ABC affiliate serving El Paso, Tex., and neighboring Las Cruces, N. Mex., a station branded as "ABC7" owned by News-Press & Gazette Co.

FOX Television Stations has selected a new Senior Vice President of Engineering, Operations, and Technology. He began his career as a Senior Editor for FOX Latin American Channels.

Cumulus Media has made a series of promotions at its Rhode Island operations, elevating five individuals across its stations serving Providence and its surrounding communities. Among them: the appointment to a key programming post for a well-known industry veteran.

Cox Media Group has moved forward with the naming of Rob Rohr's successor as VP/GM of its "CMG Ohio" unit, comprised of the radio and television properties serving the Gem City and its surrounding communities.

Nexstar Media Inc. has upped a pair of experienced broadcast leaders and current Nexstar executives to the respective roles of VP/GM to the company's broadcast and digital operations in Peoria, Ill., and in Columbus, Ga.

He's spent the last seven years as VP/GM of the internal digital agency of WEHCO Media. Starting today, he's the new VP of Digital Sales at Beasley Media Group.

It's a tastemaker Adult Alternative noncommercial FM that since 2007 has done what stations such as KCRW in Santa Monica, Calif., and WXPN in Philadelphia have brought to local radio listeners. Now, '88Nine' is seeking a new Executive Director, as Kevin Sucher has stepped down "to pursue other opportunities."

The only competition exclusively devoted to radio and audio, created 30 years ago "to encourage and reward the development of effective and creative radio commercials," has selected its 2022 chief judge. This sees the 31st annual Radio Mercury Awards turning to a Campbell Ewald creative leader.

The Hearst Television business unit that independently produces and distributes original programming for broadcast and cable TV, as well as streaming services, has promoted two individuals. They're taking "expanded sales, marketing and distribution roles" at the entity formed in September 2021 that has its roots in Litton Entertainment, rebranded at the start of 2022.

Just days after attracting attention for a series of moves in Honolulu, SummitMedia, the radio broadcasting company led by Chairman/CEO Carl Parmer, is set to say farewell to its retiring Market President at its Knoxville station group. His successor served as the group's LSM until 2017.