Media Moves

The EVP/CFO of the Radio Advertising Bureau, the VP/CFO of Graham Media Group, and the VP/Corporate Controller of Hubbard Broadcasting have been chosen to serve as the co-chairs for the Media Financial Management Association’s (MFM’s) 2021 CFO Summit. Scheduled for March 11-12, this year’s two-day event will be held virtually.

Most recently he provided brand strategy, consumer insights, and custom market research as a consultant for NBCUniversal, Disney, Crown Media and the Weather Channel. Now, he's the new Chief Research Officer at The E.W. Scripps Company.

Cumulus Media on Thursday revealed what it calls "important changes" to its top-level sales leadership, impacting both its broadcast radio stations and its Westwood One national radio arm.

Starting March 1, Emmis' Indianapolis radio stations will have a new Market President. It is a woman who has spent 22 years with Emmis in a variety of radio sales and promotions leadership roles. She'll replace a 11-year veteran who will be moving on.

WGN America, the cable network that's getting a major news-focused overhaul under new owner Nexstar Media Group, has selected a VP of Creative Marketing and Brand Communications to help growth the operation's presence even further in 2021.

The E.W. Scripps Company has appointed a veteran television sales executive to serve as its new Chief Revenue Officer. Today marks his first day in his new role.

Red Apple Group, the parent company of Red Apple Media and New York-based Talker WABC-AM 770, has promoted a legal associate to the role of General Counsel. The position is a new one and is tied to Red Apple's 2020 acquisition of the venerable station from Cumulus Media.

For more than two decades, she made her mark as a leader with a deep understanding of the media business, establishing what AMC Networks President/CEO Josh Sapan calls her "impeccable track record driving strong financial and operational results.” This explains why AMC's new EVP/CFO is a figure well-remembered for her years at Showtime and ViacomCBS.

Network advertising sales executive Deidra Hoye has been named SVP/Ad Sales as part of a department-wide expansion at Sun & Fun Media's radio syndication company Key Networks.

She joined Hearst Television in 2017 to lead the central digital teams that curate and produce a broader palate of content for distribution through the station-branded sites, apps and social expressions. Now, she's being promoted to Senior Director and Managing Editor for Hearst Television’s central digital content teams.

Sinclair Broadcast Group hired an individual some 17 years ago who has risen through the sales and operations ranks at its flagship TV station in Baltimore. Now, he's been selected to lead FOX affiliate WBFF-45.

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He has more than 30 years of programming and production experience. Most recently, he led programming strategy for MGM Global Networks’ linear and digital networks. Now, he'll serve as the head of programming for The E.W. Scripps Co.'s national TV networks business -- which now incorporates ION Media's brands.

In January 2015, she joined conservative Talk station WIND-AM 560 in Chicago as a Senior Account Executive. In August 2018, she rose to GSM. Now, she's been promoted to Director of Sales for Salem Media Group's entire Windy City operations.

After 32 years at the now-Entercom Communications-owned News/Talk station serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul market, the man behind the mic for the Morning News at WCCO-AM is hanging it up. An April 30 retirement date was revealed Friday morning.