Media Moves

The audio media company focused on the U.S. Hispanic consumer founded by José Villafañe has hired an individual who most recently served as President/CEO of Hispanic digital media brand MundoNow as its Chief Innovation Officer.

A fast-rising sales talent in the Pittsburgh market who recently took on the Director of Sales role for Sinclair Broadcast Group's ABC affiliate in the Charleston-Huntington, W. Va., market has climbed into the GM chair for the station. This talent will also oversee the FOX affiliate in the market, which Sinclair operates via a Time Brokerage Agreement with partner Cunningham Broadcasting.

Following its Spanish-language coverage of the FIFA World Cup in November, Ray Warren retired as President of Telemundo Deportes. On Thursday, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises formally announced who will be taking the reins at Telemundo Deportes.

Renee Washington, who has served as Assistant News Director of NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations O&O KNBC-4 in L.A. since fall 2018, has just been upped to an executive news role.

In 2015, Dave Kaylor took a first-ever post at Hearst Television — one that put veterans of the United States Armed Forces in the position to gain employment inside one of the company's broadcast stations. Now, Kaylor is retiring from Hearst, and his successor has been named.

He's been the VP/General Manager of a Wausau, Wisc., television station since August 2000 and prior to that was Station Manager of WLAX &...

A pair of sales VPs are being welcomed to the Los Angeles offices of Entravision Communications, with one heading up the entire sales efforts and the other focused on digital enterprises.

There's a new individual who will oversee all live-action programming, scripted and unscripted series and movies created by Disney Branded Television for the Disney Channels and for OTT platform Disney+.

Ezra Kucharz is leaving his post as president of CBS Local Digital Media.

Originally called Entertainment Studios when it was founded in 1993, the original board of directors for AMG was comprised of company founder and Chairman/CEO Byron Allen; Carolyn Folks, Allen's mother; and Chief Operating Officer Terence Hill.

He's a radio industry veteran who once served as Operations Manager and as a programming leader for Cox Media Group's Tampa-St. Petersburg station group. As of today, he's back in Tampa Bay as the new Brand Manager of Beasley Media Group's five FMs and WHFS-AM.  Oh, and he'll also program Country WQYK-FM.

Lori Waldon is trading in easy access to Sacramento Kings games for a quick drive to Santa Fe and other wonders of northern New Mexico. 

He programmed iHeartMedia's Alternative KYSR-FM “ALT 98-7” in Los Angeles until moving to New York in May 2018 for a programming post with Audacy Inc., then known under its original name, Entercom. He then returned to Los Angeles, assuming Brand Manager responsibilities for KROQ-FM in February 2020. Now, he's returning to iHeartMedia, but not in Gotham or in Hollywood.

The first Chairman for NBCUniversal Local, the division of Comcast-owned NBCU that houses its NBC and Telemundo owned-station operations, has been selected. It's a familiar figure who has been associated with NBC's O&Os for more than a decade.