Media Moves

He was a close friend to many at Skyview Networks. There, he worked with his son, Kade. Now, Skyview staff and many across the Arizona sports sphere are paying tribute to Andrew Luberda, who died Tuesday of complications directly tied to the COVID-19 virus.

At the end of next year, Paul McNicol intends to retire from his role as EVP/General Counsel and Secretary at the nation's largest audio media company. He will remain with the company through 2021 to ensure a smooth transition. Who is his successor? That would be iHeartMedia's Deputy General Counsel.

The E.W. Scripps Company has promoted its VP of Financial Planning and Analysis to the role that has until now been held by Lisa Knutson. The bump up to CFO, which saw "a nationwide search," yielded no external candidates. And, the transition will take place once Scripps closes on its acquisition of ION Media.

With Lisa Knutson rising from the EVP/CFO role to lead the newly combined businesses of ION Media, the digital multicast channels under the Katz Networks brand, and its OTT-to-MVPD offering Newsy, The E.W. Scripps Company has appointed a television industry veteran with a surname matching its multicast unit to head them on a day-to-day basis.

The President of Cogeco Media, a takeover target of Rogers Sports & Media, has exited the Montréal-based owner of 23 radio stations across the Canadian province of Québec.

He's been the acting Chief Revenue Officer since January 2020. Now, he has officially gained the title at the Comcast Advertising arm known as FreeWheel.

From the top of Mt. Washington, a Townsquare Media FM reaches much of Maine, all of northern New Hampshire, and practically all of northern Vermont once leaving the greater Burlington area. It's a 48kw monster that was the late Norm Alpert's first property, and it is getting a new morning host and Brand Manager -- an individual last with iHeartMedia in Tulsa.

Two days ago, Beasley Media Group revealed that its Director of Sales for its cluster stations in New England’s biggest market was rising to the corporate level position of VP/Sales for the entire radio broadcasting company. On Wednesday, Tina Murley's successor was revealed.

Susan O’Connell has spent the past 40 years managing News/Talk radio affiliate sales at such entities as The Wall Street Journal Radio Network, ABC Radio Networks, and CBS News. For the last six years has been in a key role at Compass Media Networks. Now, she is retiring. But, who is succeeding her?

For the last 15 years, he was associated with Urban One's radio stations in the Gateway City. Now, he'll be leading up sales efforts for the Entercom Communications cluster in St. Louis.

The Director of Sales for Beasley Media Group's cluster stations in New England's biggest market has just been promoted to the corporate level position of VP/Sales for the entire radio broadcasting company.

In mid-October, RBR+TVBR first reported on the emergence of INYO Broadcast Holdings, which is grabbing 26 ION Media stations in order for that company’s merger with The E.W. Scripps Co. to gain federal regulatory approval. Now, its Executive Chairman is known. It's an individual very familiar to veteran broadcast TV leaders, given his many years at Journal.

In this role, Kathryn Washington will lead the development and implementation of strategies for CPB's investments in mission-focused television and digital productions. She will work closely with PBS, public television stations and independent production organizations to support programming and content for national public media audiences.

A former Netflix research leader has been appointed SVP of research and insights at a major audience research company serving such companies as ViacomCBS, NBCUniversal and Comcast. She’ll be tasked with running all MarketCast research across TV, streaming, sports and brand clients around the globe.

The President/GM of the NPR member station serving the Baltimore market has been elected as the new Chair of the Board of the NPR Board of Directors. He's been at the station since 2019 and a Member Director of the NPR Board since 2016.