Media Moves

There's a new Senior VP for Agency Partnerships that has been selected to lead the buy-side revenue organization at VideoAmp, as part of an effort that sees the company move beyond measurement toward an AI-fueled media performance platform.

The Chief Programming Executive and General Manager for General Audience Programming at PBS has unexpectedly passed away, President/CEO Paula Kerger shared in a statement released by the public television service on Monday.

The award presentation will be made at the ABA Arkansan of the Year Luncheon on Monday, September 14 at its annual convention. The ABA has been presenting this award since 1977. Past recipients have included J. Will Fullbright, Johnny Cash, Bill Clinton, Don Tyson, and other entertainment, political, sports, and business leaders in Arkansas.

Now that it has all of its assets between San Francisco and San Jose positioned for future growth, Connoisseur Media's West Coast arm has appointed a General Sales Manager. She'll begin her new role on Monday and reports to newly promoted sales pro Debra Lieberman.

The man who heads Salem Media's digital marketing agency has revealed that he's commenced plans to retire, concluding a lengthy tenure at the radio station owner and publishing house parent focused on conservative secular political discourse and non-secular Christian talk and teaching programming.

He joined Beasley Media Group in 2019 and most recently served as Vice President of IT. Now, he's been promoted to the newly created role of Head of Technology and Infrastructure.

He previously served as Vice President of Ad Sales for C15 Studio. Before that, he led the advertising business at FuboTV, now a part of the Walt Disney Company.  Introducing the new Director of Sales for Connoisseur Media's radio stations serving New York's Long Island region.

The new arrival at KHCB brings more than two decades of Christian media leadership to the role, including time with the K-LOVE and Air1 networks. He previously served at Hope Media Group, where he led creative teams at KSBJ in Houston and oversaw the launch of Spanish-language Christian brand Vida Unida.

The strategic development, operational infrastructure, and business growth of New England multimedia company Binnie Media's expanding Connected TV and integrated marketing division has been put in the hands of a woman with a quarter-century of marketing and brand strategy experience across Northern New England.

There's a new VP of Technology and Operations at TEGNA, and he reports to EVP/Chief Technology and Digital Products Officer Kurt Rao following his promotion from Head of Technology and Sports Operations.

On July 8, Cumulus Media revealed that Don Boyd has been promoted to a Regional VP and will be adding stations in Baton Rouge, Lafayette, and New Orleans, La.; and Columbus-Starkville, Miss., to his everyday duties. That left the question as to who would now be overseeing two markets due east of Mobile. That answer has now arrived.

Jacob Tobey, viewed as a rising star in sports announcer circles, is no longer associated with the NBA's San Antonio Spurs, putting his career path in a haze. The reasons are linked to social media accusations that Tobey, once a "9News" sports anchor, had established a romantic relationship with a woman married to a Spurs player.

Connoisseur Media is bringing a name from the agency world into its newly created Vice President of Human Resources role. Lorraine Hirsh joined the company on June 29, arriving with HR leadership experience at IMRE and McCann.

Until July of last year, he was the Head of Audio Business and VP of Media for Rogers Sports & Media, the entity that just shuttered all of its all-News radio stations outside of CFTR-AM. Now, he has resurfaced at Pattison Media, one of the largest audio brand operators in Western Canada.

In 2017, he was recruited to join Veritone to build out its radio business and, later, its Television vertical. In July 2023, he rose from Managing Director of Media and Broadcasting to become Sr. VP of Sales for Media, Entertainment and Sports. Now, following a restructuring, this veteran media tech executive is moving on.