Media Moves

In October 2016, a radio industry veteran left the business. He joined an Austin-based marketing and advertising shop, serving as a senior account manager. The radio bug just bit him again: He's just been named a Market Manager for a cluster of iHeartRadio stations in a top 50 market.

With the departure of its SVP/Sales for similar duties in the Tampa-St. Petersburg market,  iHeartMedia had a choice to make on who would become its next sales leader in the Pacific Northwest's biggest market. That choice came today, with a promotion at iHeart's Seattle-Tacoma station group.

The former Special Counsel in the Competition Policy Division of the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau has been selected as the second VP/Regulatory Affairs at the American Cable Association.

Entercom has created a new role that calls for an individual to lead strategy, creative development and execution for multiplatform, client partnerships at the radio company. Selected for this task is the SVP for the Altitude Group, which Entercom absorbed through its merger with CBS Radio.

An American Public Media (APM) executive who has risen through the ranks at the Minneapolis-based noncommercial programming entity since joining in August 2011 has just been appointed COO of another leading producer of public radio shows.

The six-year GSM of iHeartRadio's Nashville station group will now have much easier access to Busch Stadium to see her beloved St. Louis Cardinals. As of today, she is now the Sales Manager for four iHeartRadio/St Louis stations.

For most of her 24-year career, one top radio industry market manager has called the Mile High City home. She's been associated with a group of stations that have seen five owners since 1994. Now, after sitting on the sidelines for six months, she's moving across the street to a group of radio stations that were once her longtime competitors.

An individual with more than a decade of experience overseeing a group of radio stations serving the San Francisco Bay Area was recently displaced. As of today, he's no longer on the outside looking in. Instead, he's at a group of stations that were once formidable competitors, charged with bringing these AMs and FMs new riches and increased ratings.

The News Director of Nexstar Media Group's ABC affiliate serving New York's Capital District has just been given the expanded role of Director/Local Content Development. In this new role, he will be responsible "for overseeing the execution and expansion of the company’s strategic local content and viewer engagement initiatives across its broadcast and digital media operations."

Does an owner of TV stations, a regional news network and two multicast networks need a Digital Product Management and Design team? The answer is "yes" for NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations.

Four years after exiting TVB for the top strategy and analytics role at the national media rep firm, Stacey Schulman has ascended to the CMO position. She began her career nearly 30 years ago at Katz — Katz Television, that is.

USTN continues to distance itself from its recent financial troubles under its previous Australian owner by selecting a COO. It's an individual who has had previous leadership roles at Westwood One and at Shadow Broadcast Services/Metro Networks.

Two Hispanic media veterans have been appointed to key roles at the NBCUniversal-owned Telemundo station serving Central Florida. One will serve as President/GM, while the other takes the role of VP/News. The Orlando station is an important O&O, given the influx of Puerto Ricans across the region.

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.

The head of Salem Media Group's five radio stations in the Mile High City has just transferred to the company's stations in the capital of the Buckeye State. She is familiar with both Denver and Columbus, thanks to her work at her prior employer, Wilks Broadcasting.