Media Moves

Imagine Communications, a portfolio company of The Gores Group and a leader in empowering the media and entertainment industry through transformative technology innovation, has named Tom Cotney its new CEO. As a result, former CEO Charlie Vogt is joining parent The Gores Group as a Senior Advisor.

In November, Randy Freer exited Fox Networks Group (FNG) as President/COO to take the CEO role at Hulu. We now know who is succeeding Freer in the role, giving him operational oversight of FOX Broadcasting Company and 20th Century Fox Television; Fox Sports; Fox Cable Networks' FX Networks and National Geographic Partners; and Fox Networks Group Europe, Asia and Latin America. 

There are new SVP/Market Managers now in place at two Entercom markets in the Southeast U.S. In Orlando, the ex-VP/Director of Sales for CBS Radio takes the role. In a Tennessee market, the role is given to the former GSM of Cox Media Group's Jacksonville cluster.

The ABC Owned Television Stations Group has turned to The Walt Disney Co.'s ABC Television Network Online arm in selecting its new President. In doing so, it selects a woman who spent six years as VP/Creative Services and Programming for KABC-7 in Los Angeles.

Sinclair Broadcast Group has named a new Chief Revenue Officer for the company, and he's set to transition into the role on Jan. 1, 2018. It's a new role for the owner of TV and radio stations that intends to merger with Tribune Media, and is "a reflection of the increased diversification of our business and new revenue streams we are creating," President/CEO Chris Ripley notes.

A 35-year radio industry executive who has held such roles as EVP/Operations for Chancellor Broadcasting and the company it became, AMFM Inc.; as the EVP for Salem Media Group; and as EVP/Operations for iHeartMedia's Miami-Fort Lauderdale station group while the company was still known as Clear Channel is returning to the Sunshine State.

Kent Dunn is returning home to Georgia. As a result, Mark Haddon is "shifting his responsibilities" by no longer running an eight-station cluster owned and operated by Beasley Broadcast Group. Just don't call it a "demotion."

More than 40 years ago, John Ivey began his radio industry career as an on-air personality and music director at a station in his hometown of Owensboro, Ky. He's starting December 2017 with a promotion to the very top programming post for all of iHeartMedia's Top 40 radio stations.

Cameron Maxwell is still going to see a lot of Big Sky. And, hopefully, he'll see some big revenue and ratings there, too. Maxwell has just been promoted to Regional Vice President for Connoisseur Media's Billings, Mont., station group.

The company that is running a group of stations still legally owned by Entercom -- for now -- has just made a "Sound" choice as the new GSM for a pair of FMs serving the San Francisco Bay Area.

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. 

Cox Media Group (CMG) has named seven veteran broadcast leaders to take on senior leadership roles in seven of its markets. Most of the promotions involve TV properties, while Cox's Director of Sales for its four radio stations in South Florida has risen to the role of GM.

Beasley Media Group has selected its new VP of Digital Sales, and he officially started his new duties today. His resume includes a stint in sales at iHeartRadio, as a New York-based VP of National Digital Sales.

The individual who has just been named to the newly created position of Director of Sales at ABC affiliate WMUR-9 in Manchester, N.H., won't have much to learn about the local market or the station's outsized role in the state's Republican Presidential primaries. That's because he served as GSM for a decade before taking a role at Binnie Media's WBIN-TV.

An Indianapolis market veteran who started his career in radio as PD of WFMS-FM 95.5 for former owner Susquehanna Radio Corp. has just been given the keys for Emmis Communications' flagship station group.