Media Moves

Audacy/New York sales associate Billy DiMaio had traveled to New Orleans to celebrate New Year’s Eve and attend the Sugar Bowl with friends. He lost his life during the early morning hours of January 1 in New Orleans in a vehicular terror attack on the tourist and entertainment center of Bourbon Street.

There's a new General Manager to start the New Year at a pair of Gray Media television stations. One is in Mississippi, while the other is in the Rocky Mountain State.

There's a new Brand Manager for the Audacy Inc. Sports Talk station serving the city affectionately known as "Charm City." He joins the company after serving in a key role for Beasley Media Group.

The new year has brought a new Managing Member to the Lerman Senter law firm. It sees a successor to a highly respected woman who joined Lerman Senter in the late 1980s and has been a Managing Member since 2017.

She joined Gray Media’s NBC affiliate in Anchorage in 1981, and since then has served as the station's Director of Marketing, Programming Director and General Sales Manager before rising to General Manager. Friday will mark the final day of her professional career, as retirement awaits come January 6.

The made-for-TV movie was a genre that helped to make Irv Wilson an integral broadcast TV executive in the 1970s. Wilson died on Thursday at the age of 93, following a short illness. His work includes an acclaimed account of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which aired on ABC some 50 years ago as a "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation.

Before Altice USA and its Optimum brand of cable TV services, there was Cablevision Systems, known across Westchester County and Long Island as a MVPD powerhouse that was also parent to the "News 12" local cable news operation. The man responsible for creating all of it is now being remembered by both broadcasters and cable TV leaders.

Dana Healy and Ray Tiley will join the Cablecast Community Media leadership team on January 1, working closely with Tightrope Media Systems' co-founder and CEO to manage Cablecast’s business and technology functions as COO and CTO, respectively.

From 2016 until early in 2024 he served as President/GM of Hawai'i Public Radio, which offers distinct Fine Arts and NPR-driven spoken word audio networks across the Hawaiian Islands. Now, broadcasters across the state are mourning his loss.

A 30-year radio industry veteran has been selected to lead Michigan-based Black Diamond Broadcasting as its new EVP/General Manager. She rises from Director of Business Development, and before joining the company in 2017 was an Alpha Media Market Manager.

The longtime Hearst Television newsroom leader who since 2021 has served as Assistant News Director at its WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh has been appointed bureau chief of the company’s Washington, D.C., news bureau.

The addition of SBS brings one of the Hispanic audio content creation and distribution companies to the HRA, whose efforts include local marketing campaigns, research, creative development, and leveraging airtime and digital platforms to promote Hispanic radio’s unique value to advertisers.

The official title is "Director of Discipleship," and it is going to an individual who will be charged with oversight of Pillar Media "Star"-branded Christian-themed radio stations, found in Denver, Cincinnati and Central New Jersey.

Established in 1987, the NAB Crystal Radio Awards bring national recognition to radio stations for their year-round commitment to serving communities. A panel of judges representing the broadcast industry and community service organizations review applications and select 50 finalists and 10 winners.

Two Hubbard Broadcasting FM radio stations serving Chicago now have a new VP of Brand and Content, an individual that will oversee programming for the properties. He is inbound from Cox Media Group, where he was a Sr. VP of Audience and Programming, directing the company's on-air and digital content strategy.