Media Moves

For 30 years, Nichols has known of only one employer since her graduation from the London School of Economics -- until now. She's been appointed Chief Client Officer at a New York-based ad tech company for brands and agencies that is also welcoming a new SVP of Business Development for the U.S. multicultural market and Latin America.

For three years, former Beasley Media Group executive Denyse Smith Mesnik has served as the national spokeswoman for the Mentoring & Inspiring Women in Radio (MIW) Group. Mesnik's term is now up, and her duties have been handed to the leader of Second Street Media Enterprise Sales.

After 14 years with the organization, the Vice President of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association has resigned. Why? She's moving to Indiana to be closer to her family.

Johnette Cochran cut her teeth at a Shreveport, La., radio station group then-owned by the company operated by Chesley Maddox-Dorsey. Today, she's in Eastern Maryland, and has just been upped to VP/GM of the Adams Radio Group stations serving the Salisbury-Ocean City area.

Since May 2018, he'd been associated with Townsquare Media -- specifically, for a group of stations it had just purchased from Connoisseur Media. Now, he's boarding a SEPTA line and taking his Trenton skills, and prior experience in the City of Brotherly Love, to iHeartMedia.

Sinclair Broadcast Group has selected the individual who, starting August 3, will lead its FOX property in Flint, Mich., and oversee its joint sales agreement with the Howard Stirk-owned NBC station in the market, and The CW Network affiliate owned by Cunningham Broadcasting.

In 1989, he began his career at the ABC affiliate serving Lafayette, La. Now, some 30+ years later, this longtime Bayou Country local TV leader is returning to the station. 

A longtime news anchor for an Entercom all-news radio station is saying goodbye. Sound familiar? Felicia Middlebrooks did it at the end of May. Come Friday, Susan Leigh Taylor will be making a similar move, departing KCBS-AM after 23 years.

Play Ball! The Chief Development Officer for the company that recently acquired 23 MVPD-distributed regional sports networks carrying the FOX brand has just been given additional responsibilities by also taking the newly created role of Chief Strategy Officer/Sports.

He was an original member of the senior management team at the former Triad Broadcasting, serving as an SVP from July 1999 through July 2013. From there, he served as Managing Director for Sports Media Team, a Louisville-based regional sports broadcast media and marketing company. Now, Steve Fehder has returned to radio, in Music City USA.

President Trump has appointed a Salem Radio Network host to the National Security Education Board, which provides strategic consultation and was established by Congressional act in 1991.

The local air personality who holds the Noon-6pm shift on an iHeartMedia-owned hip-hop and R&B station serving the Panama City Beach, Fla., market, has contacted local police after an alleged threat was received via social media.

Starting September 1, a former CBS executive vice president of daytime programs is joining the Hearst Television division that produces educational and informational (E&I) daytime programming as it seeks to broaden its reach and diversify its program portfolio and platforms.

Since 2012, he has served as News Director of WYFF-4 in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, S.C., market, which includes Asheville, N.C. Now, Bruce Barkley is getting bumped up to his first President/GM role by relocating to the second-largest city in Arkansas for Hearst Television.

The News Director of Hearst Television's ABC affiliate in Savannah, Ga., is being elevated to a newly created position designed to find the best talent to put in front of, and in back of, the camera across all Hearst TV local market newsrooms.