Media Moves

As of Nov. 2, broadcast TV station owner Graham Media Group will have its first-ever Senior Director of Diversity & Inclusion. Taking the role is a woman who most recently directed diversity initiatives on a national level for Comerica Bank.

The Gracie Awards, presented by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation (AWMF), has opened the call for entries for the 46th Annual Gracie Awards Gala and Gracie Awards Luncheon. The AWMF has also locked in the Diamond Sponsor of the 2021 Gracies.

The chief executive of Beasley Media Group succeeds Michael J. Fiorile, Chairman of the Dispatch Printing Company. He has been selected to serve as Presiding Director of the BMI Board. In addition, the BMI Board of Directors has extended Mike O’Neill’s contract.

P1 Learning Co-Founder Katey McGuckin-Woolam in 2007 partnered with broadcaster Speed Marriott to create the online training company. Now, McGuckin-Woolam is saying goodbye, and has opted to retire from the company catering to broadcast stations and media-based companies across the U.S.

Sinclair Broadcast Group has appointed an individual who will be responsible for the day-to-day editorial operations and news content strategies for the company's regional sports networks and its newly created Stadium unit.

Remaining as chair is an attorney and partner at Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, a firm specializing in entertainment and media matters, and was named one of the top 100 lawyers in California.

It's been stated that the post-bankruptcy version of Estrella Media would propel itself into the OTT and rapidly growing AVOD space. Those efforts are now ramping up with the addition of a digital and streaming media executive who arrives from Sony Pictures Television Digital Networks and had a hand in the rollout of Crackle.

Meredith Vieira will be honored for her decades-long success as a host and figure in the industry. National Association of Broadcasters President/CEO Gordon Smith will present the award and deliver comments on October 23 at Noon Eastern.

In this newly created role, a former Xcelerate Solutions executive will lead the company's business transformation program across all business functions, leveraging leading business and technology practices to deliver more effective and efficient ways of working and driving ongoing scale and growth.

Sun Broadcast Group has promoted Rich O’Brien to Chief Development Officer. O’Brien, who has been with the company for two years, had been VP of Programming and Affiliate Relations.

The individual who has served as VP/Market Manager of Beasley Media Group's six-station group in its home market of Fort Myers-Naples has been promoted to a new corporate-level position at the company his family founded nearly 60 years ago. The elevation of Brad Beasley results in the return to Southwest Florida of a Delaware Valley eSports leader.

In the words of Townsquare Media Local Media COO Erik Hellum, he is "honestly one of the best local broadcasters I have ever met (and a truly wonderful human being)." This leader has been been leading what is today the company's Casper, Wyoming, station group since 1968. Now, he's stepping away from the Market President role -- but isn't retiring.

In 1988, she began her career in television as an account executive for a Meredith Corp. owned TV station serving the Flint, Saginaw and Bay City, Mich., market. This local leader would rise to NSM, LSM and General Sales Manager before exiting in 2002 — only to return in 2018 for the top role. Now, she's heading to the shores of Lake Erie, and to Nexstar Media Group.

There's a new VP of News at the NBCUniversal Owned Station serving the Miami-Fort Lauderdale market. It's a woman who joined "NBC 6" in September 2015 as the executive producer of investigations.

With recent layoffs and a shift in master control as part of a cost-reduction plan, Meredith Local Media has moved forward with the promotion of two of its top local market TV executive to Senior Vice President positions.