Media Moves

SBS hired Juan Garcia as an EVP to develop and execute re-finance strategies.

The woman who serves as Market President for iHeartMedia in Eau Claire, Wisc., and Rochester, Minn., has been appointed to the NAB Radio Board of Directors.

AdLarge and the fwd. network have appointed a new Executive Vice President of Business Development and Partnerships. In this role, the former Scripps Networks Interactive and Westwood One staffer will be leading the business development team in strategic digital partnerships and expand opportunities for the company and creators across the fwd. network’s portfolio of female-focused content.

The Shadow League has developed an online audience as an online hub dedicated to presenting "journalistically sound sports coverage through the lens of culture." The individual who presently serves as its EVP, who has experience at African American-centric cable TV network BET, has just joined the partnership in New York that is now the licensee of "Hot 97" and WBLS.

From Hagerstown to Ocean City, PBS viewers have relied on Maryland Public Television (MPT) to bring them educational and informational programming across its noncommercial broadcast TV stations. Now, MPT has named a new head, and it is the current EVP/Station Manager.

She's been at Entravision since 2014 and began her career 31 years ago at Dailey & Associates. Her resumé includes experience at such storied Hispanic advertising agencies as Casanova Pendrill and Publicis Sanchez & Levitan.  Now, she's the first-ever EVP of Global Marketing at the Los Angeles-headquartered global media and digital advertising solutions company led by Walter Ulloa.

The President of Networks at Nexstar Media Group, as does the President of Distribution and Strategy for the nation's No. 1 owner of broadcast television stations, has a new employment agreement. Each have extended their current contracts, and will continue to report to Perry Sook.

In September 1995, Pat Ryan was named GM of "three informative and engaging radio stations" serving greater Boston by Salem Media Group. Nearly 24 years later, Ryan has announced her retirement. We also know who will be succeeding her.

She's been with the Annapolis, Md.-headquartered ratings-focused research firm since July 1998 and in 2022 was elevated to Data and Production Manager. Now, she'll serve as Chief Operating Officer for Research Director.

There's a new Chief Accelerator at New York-based data-powered Connected TV advertising shop BrightLine, not to be confused with the South Florida high-speed rail service of the same name. It's an individual who is widely recognized in the advanced television space.

Educational Media Foundation (EMF), the parent organization of omnipresent noncommercial Christian radio networks K-LOVE and Air1, has a new General Counsel for the Ministry.

There is a new Region President for iHeartMedia Houston, and it is a Louisiana native who has been associated with the nation's biggest owner of radio stations since 2000.