Media Moves

Skyview Networks is expanding its agreement with Playfly Sports by adding a pair of Lone Star State collegiate partners while a California school adds production to the services it already receives from Skyview.

Neal Gladner is retiring as Executive Director of the Arkansas Broadcasters Association, following the SBA's upcoming convention in mid-September. Taking his role is the association's Membership Director.

In March 2025, Salem Media struck a deal to sell three FMs and an AM with an FM translator serving Honolulu to a locally based company led by Monroe D. Greer. Now, it is welcoming a veteran programming leader who once handed the music and air talent for three crosstown radio stations.

Gray Media Chief Operating Officer Sandy Breland will serve as Television Co-Chair of Forecast 2027, which has an agenda that keeps growing by the week. Now in its 24th year, the annual broadcast and finance leadership summit will be presented on November 12 at the Harvard Club of New York.

The President and General Manager of the radio station that has been the nation's top biller and one of the top all-News brands by audience multiple times in recent years has been named the 2026 NAB National Radio Award recipient. 

After leading Kentucky’s statewide public media network for almost 17 years, KET's Executive Director and CEO has announced her intention to retire at the end of this year. She began her career at KET as a temporary employee working on pledge production.

The longtime music industry executive who serves as President of Global Music Marketing at iHeartMedia has been elevated to the role of President at the Mediabase arm within its RCS Worldwide subsidiary operation in White Plains, N.Y.

A new VP/General Manager has been selected by Sinclair Inc. to oversee its FOX affiliate serving Omaha-Council Bluffs and its ABC and FOX stations serving the Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney DMA. Taking the role is the 19-year GM of KTVO-TV in Kirksville, Mo.-Ottumwa, Iowa.

On Wednesday, he was busily publicizing Seaboard Networks' launch of "Bay Rock—Baltimore's Classic Rock" in the role of Marketing Solutions Consultant, following the demise of WZBA-FM with its sale to K-LOVE Inc. Now, many across the radio industry are expressing shock and sadness, as Bob Stei has died.

A noncomm operator focused on positive programming, youth music mentoring, and educational broadcasting has a new Chief Executive Officer. That prompted a July 21 transfer of control request involving the company and its FM radio station in a coastal North Carolina community which has now been negated.

RBR+TVBR President/Publisher Deborah Parenti said, “This year’s Radio Wayne finalists represent one of the most diverse and competitive lineups in the awards’ 34-year history, spanning markets and media companies of all sizes. Even as our industry navigates modern challenges, the dedication and resilience of these professionals give us a powerful reason to celebrate.”

A company with increasing importance to broadcast television companies due to the C-Band repack that the FCC is about to undertake is welcoming a new Senior Director of Sales. She's tasked with driving direct sales and partnerships at Zixi.

He was a key figure at the forefront of the digital evolution of broadcast and cable television who joined Hearst Television in 2008. Since 2016, he has held the role of Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer. At year's end, he will retire from the privately held owner of broadcast TV stations overseen by Michael J. Hayes.

Starting October 5, the parent organization of omnipresent noncommercial Christian radio networks K-LOVE and Air1 will have a new VP of Live Events. He is joining K-LOVE Inc. after serving as GM of the Oak View Group-managed Central Bank Center in Lexington, Ky.

The Fox Television Stations properties serving Orlando and the adjacent Gainesville-Ocala market have a new VP/News Director. She's a seven-year station veteran who is rising from the role of Managing Editor.