Media Moves

A long-time Program Director for various radio stations, including iHeartMedia's Jacksonville station group, is ready to enjoy better access to SpaceX launches, and trips to Florida theme parks just over an hour's drive to the west.

For a quarter-century, she's been a senior sales executive at Hearst Television's dominant NBC affiliate serving the California state capital and its MyNetworkTV-affiliated sibling. Now, she's been given the opportunity to lead another Hearst station as its President and GM.

Much like famed NBA coach Larry Brown, Jim Bryant is a leader who excels at creating the winning recipe and making this a chief goal. With that, Bryant is planning to leave 2060 Digital, and will soon say goodbye to the family-owned multimedia company that owns it. Who is assuming Bryant's duties?

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The leadership team that guides ACA Connects — formerly the American Cable Association — will be staying in place for the next two years.

For 30 years, Nichols has known of only one employer since her graduation from the London School of Economics -- until now. She's been appointed Chief Client Officer at a New York-based ad tech company for brands and agencies that is also welcoming a new SVP of Business Development for the U.S. multicultural market and Latin America.

For three years, former Beasley Media Group executive Denyse Smith Mesnik has served as the national spokeswoman for the Mentoring & Inspiring Women in Radio (MIW) Group. Mesnik's term is now up, and her duties have been handed to the leader of Second Street Media Enterprise Sales.

After 14 years with the organization, the Vice President of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association has resigned. Why? She's moving to Indiana to be closer to her family.

Johnette Cochran cut her teeth at a Shreveport, La., radio station group then-owned by the company operated by Chesley Maddox-Dorsey. Today, she's in Eastern Maryland, and has just been upped to VP/GM of the Adams Radio Group stations serving the Salisbury-Ocean City area.

Since May 2018, he'd been associated with Townsquare Media -- specifically, for a group of stations it had just purchased from Connoisseur Media. Now, he's boarding a SEPTA line and taking his Trenton skills, and prior experience in the City of Brotherly Love, to iHeartMedia.

Sinclair Broadcast Group has selected the individual who, starting August 3, will lead its FOX property in Flint, Mich., and oversee its joint sales agreement with the Howard Stirk-owned NBC station in the market, and The CW Network affiliate owned by Cunningham Broadcasting.

In 1989, he began his career at the ABC affiliate serving Lafayette, La. Now, some 30+ years later, this longtime Bayou Country local TV leader is returning to the station. 

A longtime news anchor for an Entercom all-news radio station is saying goodbye. Sound familiar? Felicia Middlebrooks did it at the end of May. Come Friday, Susan Leigh Taylor will be making a similar move, departing KCBS-AM after 23 years.

Play Ball! The Chief Development Officer for the company that recently acquired 23 MVPD-distributed regional sports networks carrying the FOX brand has just been given additional responsibilities by also taking the newly created role of Chief Strategy Officer/Sports.

He was an original member of the senior management team at the former Triad Broadcasting, serving as an SVP from July 1999 through July 2013. From there, he served as Managing Director for Sports Media Team, a Louisville-based regional sports broadcast media and marketing company. Now, Steve Fehder has returned to radio, in Music City USA.