Media Moves

She succeeded Walt "Baby" Love as Urban Editor of former radio industry trade publication Radio & Records and in the years since that role has excelled as one of the leading R&B and Hip-Hop programming executives in the business. Now, Kashon Powell is taking a key role for iHeartMedia in the nation's No. 3 market.

Dick Whitworth, a 50-year veteran of Christian-focused faith-based media, is retiring. This opened up an opportunity for Pillar Media, operator of "STAR"-branded Christian Adult Contemporary radio stations in three U.S. markets, to select a new COO. It went with a former iHeartMedia Region President.

A digital multicast network purveyor that recently named Otto Padrón as its President and COO has appointed a VP of Digital Strategy and Revenue Ops. In this role, an ex-Univision Interactive Media leader will "architect, lead, build and execute Get After It Media's digital growth and revenue strategy.

The Mission Broadcasting-owned home of The CW Network in New York that is run by cozy shared services partner Nexstar Media Group has named its next News Director. He begins his new duties on July 24.

Titletown has a new Station Manager for a pair of Sinclair Inc.-owned broadcast TV stations, and he's been on the job since Monday. That said, this individual has been with the stations for nearly a decade.

There's a new head of Gray Media's full-power NBC affiliate serving Parkersburg, W. Va., and the two low-power TV station siblings that bring FOX and CBS programming to this small West Virginia market.

The CBS affiliate serving the Wausau-Rhinelander, Wisc., market will have a new General Manager. She'll take on the role starting July 21.

He joined the broadcast ministry in 1996 after building a career in New York’s cable and sports television industries and was promoted to the COO role in 2009. Since 2013 Eternal Word Television Network's President, too, he's retiring from the global Catholic media organization.

In 1978, he first took a job in Radio as an on-air personality, with stations in Madison, Wisc., and in Milwaukee. By 1997, he played a pivotal role in the formation of what would eventually become iHeartMedia's Wisconsin holdings. Now this lifelong radio industry veteran is concluding a nearly five-decade career.

It is being described as "a strategic move" that further strengthens the nationally recognized law firm's Space & Satellite capabilities, Pillsbury is welcoming a new partner within the Communications practice of its National Capitol office.

A former member of the air staff at a 100kw Country FM licensed to Jacksboro, Tex., and serving Tarrant County, has been sentenced to serve six years in prison after it was found he violated the terms of his probation.

The Radio Research Consortium’s Board of Directors has selected a new President, and it is the person who has been in the role of Chief Operating Officer last year to support an interim President named following the death of former head Joanne Church.

Since December 2021, he has served as the Multimedia Sales Manager for Gray Media's two television stations serving the Kansas City market. Now, he's being promoted to the role of Director of Sales. 

She brings a decade of experience reporting and producing for NBC News, where she served as a Chicago correspondent. Barrett was, before that, a campaign reporter embedded on the 2020 trail, and a producer for NBC News’ Business and Tech Unit.

He stepped down from his role as the morning host of one of Townsquare Media's top-billing radio stations to seek the Republican nomination for Governor of the State of New Jersey. Now, he's poised to resume his radio program with no worries about "equal time," as Bill Spadea has been defeated in the primary election.