Media Moves

Sinclair Broadcast Group has selected an individual that will hold the newly created role of Chief Business Officer at its D2C/Gamification eSports arm.

Cox Media Group's Tulsa cluster of radio and TV properties has "strengthened its local integrated broadcast team" with the addition of two multimedia professionals. One will be focused on the news at the FOX affiliate it owns. The other is taking a key programming leadership post for "Mix 96.5."

He's back, and he's taking the role of CFO for the provider of service management platforms for the delivery of advanced television services.

Some 94 radio spots made it to the finals of the 2020 Radio Mercury Awards, which honors outstanding radio, covering 12 awards in nine categories created by advertising agencies, production companies, radio stations, streaming companies and students.

The President/GM of TEGNA's CBS affiliate serving the National Capital Region has been promoted to SVP. As such, he's gaining oversight of two other CBS stations, in the South. At the same time, TEGNA's NBC affiliate in Phoenix will have a new President/GM, starting Sept. 28.

Across the TV industry, he's known as the Chairman/CEO of Allen Media Group and as the founder of Entertainment Studios. Yet, Bryon Allen has just been tapped to lead a conversation focused on his career and journey as an industry leader at the virtual 2020 Radio Show. Could this point to Allen's entry into radio ownership by early October?

One week ago, RBR+TVBR shared the news about the upcoming retirement of Timothy J. Morrissey, who six years ago gained leadership duties for WJCL-22 in Savannah. We now know who will take his place at the helm of the ABC affiliate serving Southeastern Georgia and the Hilton Head Island region of South Carolina.

The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation’s 45th annual Gracie Awards are scheduled for Thursday, September 10. Want to know how to view the event? Here are the details!

From 1999 through 2003, he served as Local Sales Manager of KWBP-TV, today the CW Network affiliate serving the largest market in Oregon and today KRCW-32. Now, he's returning to the Rose City to serve as VP/GM of KRCW and its big CBS-affiliated sibling.

In November 2008, a principal at Skyy Real Estate Marketing opened the doors to a national radio network through both English-language and Spanish-language affiliates across the U.S. A decade later, he helped negotiate the sale of the company to Gen Media Partners. Now, Jason Bailey is saying goodbye to Sun Broadcast Group.

On May 4, it became known that NBC News, MSNBC, and CNBC will “be organized into a single unit and led by Cesar Conde, who assumes the newly created role of Chairman, NBCUniversal News Group.” He's now selected a SVP/Corporate Affairs, and it is a Hispanic market veteran who spent four years in a key NPR role before exiting in June 2016.

Jay Huizenga began his career at a pair of broadcast TV stations serving portions of South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana—one of the largest coverage areas in the nation —as an account executive in 1980. Huizenga has announced his retirement. His successor at the Nexstar Media Group-owned duo is now known.

Shannon, the legendary air personality and radio programmer, is staying at Entercom-owned WCBS-FM in New York and will continue to host a syndicated program. In Philadelphia, an afternoon host who has been in the slot at a Beasley Classic Rocker since April 2002 has a new deal.

Sun Broadcast Group was founded in 2008 as Sun Radio Network by CEO Jason Bailey and was acquired by Gen Media Partners in September 2018. Now, a new COO is in place. Three other staffers are reportedly out.

The now-former SVP/Head of Corporate Communications at Entercom Communications who last week voluntarily exited the audio media company has joined an entity committed to "reshaping and modernizing" the U.S. music industry.