Media Moves

Meredith Vieira will be honored for her decades-long success as a host and figure in the industry. National Association of Broadcasters President/CEO Gordon Smith will present the award and deliver comments on October 23 at Noon Eastern.

In this newly created role, a former Xcelerate Solutions executive will lead the company's business transformation program across all business functions, leveraging leading business and technology practices to deliver more effective and efficient ways of working and driving ongoing scale and growth.

Sun Broadcast Group has promoted Rich O’Brien to Chief Development Officer. O’Brien, who has been with the company for two years, had been VP of Programming and Affiliate Relations.

The individual who has served as VP/Market Manager of Beasley Media Group's six-station group in its home market of Fort Myers-Naples has been promoted to a new corporate-level position at the company his family founded nearly 60 years ago. The elevation of Brad Beasley results in the return to Southwest Florida of a Delaware Valley eSports leader.

In the words of Townsquare Media Local Media COO Erik Hellum, he is "honestly one of the best local broadcasters I have ever met (and a truly wonderful human being)." This leader has been been leading what is today the company's Casper, Wyoming, station group since 1968. Now, he's stepping away from the Market President role -- but isn't retiring.

In 1988, she began her career in television as an account executive for a Meredith Corp. owned TV station serving the Flint, Saginaw and Bay City, Mich., market. This local leader would rise to NSM, LSM and General Sales Manager before exiting in 2002 — only to return in 2018 for the top role. Now, she's heading to the shores of Lake Erie, and to Nexstar Media Group.

There's a new VP of News at the NBCUniversal Owned Station serving the Miami-Fort Lauderdale market. It's a woman who joined "NBC 6" in September 2015 as the executive producer of investigations.

With recent layoffs and a shift in master control as part of a cost-reduction plan, Meredith Local Media has moved forward with the promotion of two of its top local market TV executive to Senior Vice President positions.

Sinclair Broadcast Group has selected an individual that will hold the newly created role of Chief Business Officer at its D2C/Gamification eSports arm.

Cox Media Group's Tulsa cluster of radio and TV properties has "strengthened its local integrated broadcast team" with the addition of two multimedia professionals. One will be focused on the news at the FOX affiliate it owns. The other is taking a key programming leadership post for "Mix 96.5."

He's back, and he's taking the role of CFO for the provider of service management platforms for the delivery of advanced television services.

Some 94 radio spots made it to the finals of the 2020 Radio Mercury Awards, which honors outstanding radio, covering 12 awards in nine categories created by advertising agencies, production companies, radio stations, streaming companies and students.

The President/GM of TEGNA's CBS affiliate serving the National Capital Region has been promoted to SVP. As such, he's gaining oversight of two other CBS stations, in the South. At the same time, TEGNA's NBC affiliate in Phoenix will have a new President/GM, starting Sept. 28.

Across the TV industry, he's known as the Chairman/CEO of Allen Media Group and as the founder of Entertainment Studios. Yet, Bryon Allen has just been tapped to lead a conversation focused on his career and journey as an industry leader at the virtual 2020 Radio Show. Could this point to Allen's entry into radio ownership by early October?

One week ago, RBR+TVBR shared the news about the upcoming retirement of Timothy J. Morrissey, who six years ago gained leadership duties for WJCL-22 in Savannah. We now know who will take his place at the helm of the ABC affiliate serving Southeastern Georgia and the Hilton Head Island region of South Carolina.