Media Moves

An eight-year veteran of the CBS affiliate serving Southern Nevada who served as VP of the Las Vegas Executives Association from July 2014 through April 2015 is heading back to the City of Lights.

Two veteran radio industry sales executives have each been selected to serve as Directors of National Partnerships at Westwood One, the Cumulus Media-owned syndicated radio program operation.

Jeff Kimmel has shifted from an Israeli company's executive sales team to head up North American sales efforts for a Dutch entity providing integrated business and revenue management solutions for media companies.

Tracey Rogers is trucking east from Memphis for a new position in Music City. Effective immediately, Rogers has taken the VP/GM role at Nexstar Media Group's ABC affiliate in Nashville, WKRN-2.

Salem Media Group has promoted the GM for its Windy City radio cluster to the role of Operational Vice President. He'll take the new role on July 1.

The former spokesperson for Greater Media has taken a similar role with the former radio broadcasting company's acquisition partner, Beasley Broadcast Group.

A 25-year media veteran who most recently served as Regional Sales Manager at Titan Broadcasting’s unaffiliated KUBE-57 in Houston and, before that, was the VP/Sales for CBS Radio's Houston station group is heading east on I-10 to a new job in the Big Easy.

Fox Networks Group has promoted Joe Marchese to the role of President of Advertising Revenue. In his new role, he will oversee linear and nonlinear sales, advertising research and advanced ad products for FNG’s portfolio of industry-leading network brands.

Donny Hudson, a longtime figure in Miami's Hispanic media world, has been selected to serve as GM and VP/Sales for Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS)'s three FMs in the Magic City. The move comes as its former VP/Sales and SoFla GM takes charge of a new "portafolio."

Jamie Gillespie, a longtime NAB government affairs leader, has accepted a new role on Capitol Hill for one of the nation's biggest media and entertainment companies.

The EVP and Chief Investment Officer of Horizon Media is taking a top ad sales role at both FOX News Channel and Fox Business Network. She begins her new duties on May 22.

Here's an opportunity you may not want to flush down the drain. A popular afternoon-drive show airing on an Entercom Rock station in Seattle is getting a national roll-out on June 5, thanks to a partnership with Westwood One.

There's a new "portafolio" for Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS), and the company's Miami-market VP/Sales and GM is tacking on responsibilities to oversee what's being billed as a cross-platform content development division designed to create and expand brand strategies across all of the Hispanic-focused media operation's divisions.

In a move directly correlated to its tax-free, Reverse Morris Trust-fueled merger with CBS Radio, Entercom has hired the President/CEO of the San Diego Padres to serve as its brand-new President of what is to be called "Entercom Sports." Dee, who has been an executive with the Miami Dolphins and Boston Red Sox, is relocating to Philadelphia to take the job.

A former U.S. Army Captain who joined DISH Network in 2011 as Director of Programming and later rose to VP/Programming has added SVP stripes at the DBS and OTT provider.