Media Moves

The move comes following Cobalt's acquisition of ImmediaTV in Sept. 2016

Jamie Gillespie, a longtime NAB government affairs leader, has accepted a new role on Capitol Hill for one of the nation's biggest media and entertainment companies.

The exodus at ESPN continued on Monday, as its former SVP/Sales Revenue Management and Client Services was formally named to the role of EVP/Pricing and Planning for Fox Networks Group (FNG) Advertising Sales. 

Urban One's Radio One has assigned its OM for the company's Cleveland and Cincinnati radio stations additional duties for its Columbus, Ohio, stations. The move comes as the individual that had been leading the company's radio properties in the Ohio state capital drives west on I-70 to become Radio's One new OM in Indianapolis.

The privately held owner and manager of communications towers across the U.S., is celebrating the completion of the first week on the job for its newly named executive. He joins the Boca Raton, Fla.-based company after most recently holding the role of VP/U.S. Sales at Electronics Research Inc. (ERI).

The Hispanic media company that owns and operates the Estrella TV network and a group of Spanish-language radio stations has just tapped a new SVP/National Sales. He'll be based out of the New York office for Liberman Broadcasting's LBI Media. 

Jim Meyer has a new deal that's keeping him in the chief executive role at Sirius XM Radio. But, it's not a multi-year agreement. The just-finalized deal keeps Meyer on only through the end of 2018.

The chairman of Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media has just been handed a whole wide world of sports to oversee. Effective today, James Pitaro has been named President of ESPN. He takes a role last held on a full-time basis by John Skipper, who stepped down in December.

The former GSM of Cumulus Media's four-station Buffalo-Niagara Falls, N.Y. cluster has been appointed VP/Market Manager by the company that seeks to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the next six weeks.

A veteran communications lawyer has exited Drinker Biddle & Realth LLP to serve as a special counsel for the communications team at Pillsbury. This individual is president of the Federal Communications Bar and joins Pillsbury's Washington, D.C. office with more than two decades of experience representing broadcasting companies in navigating the intersection of technology and regulatory developments.

To many, Premiere Networks President Julie Talbott is a trailblazer. The Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio (MIW) Group are now making that official.

In July 1999, the GSM of Mid Atlantic Communications' Winchester, Va. stations jumped across town, taking the VP/Market Manager role for Clear Channel. He's been with the company now known as iHeartMedia ever since. Now, this veteran of Virginia radio is being promoted.

A longtime media and business development executive has been select to serve as CEO of PodcastOne. He'll manage all day-to-day operations, while exploring growth opportunities, strategic partnerships and new content initiatives.

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises has tapped a Wells Fargo veteran to lead its Corporate Affairs division and help create, implement and market the Spanish-language network's corporate social responsibility platform.

For three decades, Kellie Holeman-Szenderski served as a radio industry leader, eventually becoming Market President for what is today iHeartMedia in Toledo, Ohio. Holeman-Szenderski recently transferred to iHeart’s Greensboro cluster, and her successor is now known.