Media Moves

The MIW Airblazer Award stems from an alliance formed in 2015 between MIW (formerly known as the MIW Group) and Morning Show Bootcamp (MSBC). "The recipient is carefully selected, as is tradition, by the prior year’s winner and is recognized for her dedication and contributions to the broadcast industry and to the communities she serves," MIW notes.

For the past 11 years, he's run a New York advisory firm consulting such entities as Premiere Networks, Viacom, Westwood One, and GeoBroadcast Solutions. Now, Gary Krantz is joining an investment bank focused on the media, marketing, information and technology industries.

He's been "an integral part" of the Fox Television stations team for 14 years and was "a natural fit" for this position, says Fox TV Stations CEO Jack Abernethy. Meet the new SVP of Digital Operations for the Fox owned-and-operated over-the-air stations.

Each of ViacomCBS’ global content leaders have been elevated as part of a structure shift that places each of these executives in charge of their respective genres within Paramount+. The big announcement: Tanya Giles has been selected to serve as a centralized programming head to chart content strategy for Paramount+ and Pluto TV globally.

He's a 30-year radio broadcasting veteran who joined Cumulus Media in 2018. Now, this longtime programming and operations leader is transferring from the company's "Texas Country" FM serving the Beaumont-Port Arthur area of the Lone Star State to the center of Georgia's Coastal Empire: Savannah.

Actor and comedian Jim Gaffigan — a five-time Grammy-nominated comedian, actor, writer and producer and contributor to CBS Sunday Morning — will entertain NAB Show attendees with a special Sunday afternoon performance.

Global media ad sales platform maker Matrix has named a new Chief Operations Officer. The Pittsburgh-based company says she will be "instrumental in helping execute the company’s global growth strategy, expanding their solutions portfolio into existing and new market verticals."

There will be a new Vice President of News, who will also serve as Managing Editor, of NewsNation, come July 19. She will oversee the Nexstar Media Group-owned network’s day-to day news gathering and production process and supervise a staff of more than 100 reporters, producers, writers, and photojournalists.

There's a new President and GM for the FM radio stations serving the Denver market owned by Max Media. It's an individual who started off his career in radio as an Account Executive at iHeartMedia's properties due south on I-25, in Colorado Springs.

Two years ago, he was appointed Director of Sales for Univision Communications' radio and television properties in San Antonio. Now, with rumors swirling that Univision wishes to sell some of its radio stations, this media ad sales veteran with experience at Urban One and iHeartMedia is joining Cumulus Media.

A former U.S. Surgeon General has agreed to join the medical reporting team of the CW Network affiliate serving Indianapolis owned by African American broadcast station owner DuJuan McCoy.

In late May, the head of sales for Fox Television Stations’ owned-and-operated station serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul market, who added SVP/Market Manager duties in December 2014, packed her bags and relocated to the company's Seattle-Tacoma operations. Now, her successor has been chosen, and it is a promotion from within.

After leading Alpha Media's four radio stations in nearby Fredericksburg, Va., Jeff Boden is heading north and will be back in Friendship Heights to lead what are now Cumulus Media's radio properties serving Washington, D.C.

An entertainment industry legal veteran who has been the associate general counsel at Amazon Studios until today has returned to Davis Wright Tremaine LLP after more than 20 years. It's a return for an individual who was a DWT associate in the late 1990s.

He serves as the anchor and managing editor of NBC’s flagship news broadcast. He has also served as principal anchor of “Dateline NBC” since September 2011 and leads NBC News’ special reports, breaking news and primetime political coverage. Lester Holt is now being recognized for those efforts with his induction into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame.