Media Moves

A woman who rose to national prominence for her unsuccessful bid to become Governor and, later, a U.S. Senator representing the Grand Canyon State has been tapped by the forthcoming Trump Administration to head the Voice of America.

She is formerly the Chief Revenue Officer at OpenAP, where she built the company's revenue practice from the ground up. Introducing the new Chief Commercial Officer at Silicon Valley-based Anoki AI, which offers sales tools for Connected TV.

She most recently served as Executive Director of Unscripted Content and Production for Sony Pictures Entertainment, overseeing projects for both the Latin American and U.S. Hispanic markets. Before that, she spent more than a decade at TV Azteca in Mexico City.

TEGNA’s CBS affiliate serving Houston is welcoming a new News Director. It's a woman with a 30-year career in local news who previously spent 13 years in a similar role at WJXT-4, the unaffiliated news-focused TV station serving Jacksonville owned by Graham Media Group.

NATPE Global has put its plans in motion to create a "NATPE Honors Awards Gala," described as "a new celebration recognizing trailblazing individuals whose creativity and visionary leadership are reshaping the entertainment industry."

There is a new Region President for iHeartMedia Houston, and it is a Louisiana native who has been associated with the nation's biggest owner of radio stations since 2000.

He was associated with Fox News Channel from November 1998 through August 2010 and later spent 8 1/2 years at CBS News. Now, this veteran broadcast and digital news operations executive is settling in to his role as VP/News Operations at the Chris Ruddy-run Newsmax.

Just south of the Red River separating Texas from Oklahoma and casino resorts over the border, Gray Media has selected a General Manager and Director of Sales for the CBS and FOX affiliates that serve these fast-growing communities due north of Dallas-Fort Worth.

The Hispanic-focused broadcast media company with a global ad tech arm has appointed a VP/GM for its mobile advertising and connected TV technology platform, Smadex.

He's been with the station since 1987, when Gaylord Broadcasting sold it to Gillett and some six years prior to its affiliation switch from CBS to FOX, at which time it became a foundational O&O property today within Fox Television Stations. Now, this individual, today in the role of VP/News Director, is planning to retire from "FOX 13 Tampa Bay."

The Senior VP of Streaming Sales at Fox Television Stations is welcoming an individual who has joined the team by taking the Vice President of Streaming Sales role. He'll also be taking a key position designed to boost OTT platform ad revenue for the FOX unit.

The individual who serves as Area President for 10 iHeartMedia radio stations across the Constitution State is calling it quits, as the company has announced he will retire at the end of 2024, concluding a nearly 40-year career in broadcasting.

He currently anchors the afternoon and nighttime newscasts for TEGNA-owned WVEC-13, the ABC affiliate serving the Tidewater region of Virginia. Soon, he'll be joining the company's NBC affiliate in Atlanta to helm its weekend morning newscasts.

The Morgan Murphy Media subsidiary that owns and operates six radio stations in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and TV stations in Marquette and Alpena, Mich., has promoted from within to fill the role of Digital of Digital Sales for the Mitten State.

It has been one year since SiriusXM launched a channel curated and hosted by singer-songwriter John Mayer, and it has proven to be a smash hit with subscribers. Now, Mayer is launching an interview series featuring "intimate and extensive" conversations between the musician and some of his more notable peers.