Media Moves

Sinclair Broadcast Group is cheering the promotion of six individuals within the company’s finance organization. All report to EVP/CFO Lucy Rutishauser.

A Los Angeles-based independent owner of television shows is welcoming an individual who will now be responsible for augmenting the company's sourcing of new film, television, music, and other entertainment intellectual property assets.

On August 5, the General Manager of two Lockwood Broadcast Group television stations will not only exit the television stations, but call it a career after 33 years. He joined Lockwood in 2011 as the GM of The CW Network affiliate — today owned by Gray Television.

Media Financial Management Association (MFM) has unveiled its 2022-2023 officers and newly elected board members for the association and its BCCA subsidiary, the media industry’s credit association.

The first news anchor for the OTT-delivered Salem News Channel (SNC) television service from Salem Media Group is being welcomed across the conservative and Christian-themed broadcasting and publishing company. She's already hosting two-minute news capsules at the top of the hour and 90-second vignettes at the bottom of the hour, between 5pm and 10pm weekdays.

In the April 25, 1986, edition of Radio & Records, a single sentence in the "AOR" section of the former trade publication noted a change in morning drive at a successful Rock station serving the Twin Cities. Little did anyone realize that the man KQRS-FM had hired would enjoy more than 36 years of success in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Now, Tom Barnard is preparing to retire, with a six-month sendoff announced Thursday.

He leads the Hubbard Radio group in Phoenix, where he has served as VP/Market Manager since 2014. Now, he's adding similar duties for the company's Seattle-Tacoma properties.

Who will be succeeding longtime KEXP in Seattle CEO Tom Mara? It's the individual who has been the influential noncommercial radio operation's COO since 2016.

He spent nine years with Clear Channel Outdoor, rising to VP/Sales for the Los Angeles area before heading to the Valley of the Sun.  Now, this former iHeartMedia/Phoenix General Sales Manager is joining the company led by Chairman/CEO Carl Parmer.

Elenos Group, a designer and manufacturer of such broadcast products as radio and TV transmitters and program automation systems, is welcoming a new Group Commercial Director.

The Byron Allen-owned Allen Media Group (AMG) is welcoming its new Director of Content Distribution and Partnerships to the fast-growing television industry entity. He's charged with "initiating and cultivating multi-platform content distribution and client relationships" for AMG's Weather Group, Allen Media Networks, and Allen Media Digital and will be based in Atlanta.

"I am absolutely thrilled and honored and generally upside down with excitement to come back home to MSNBC." That's what Alex Wagner Tweeted on Monday (6/27) upon getting the nod from MSNBC that she will succeed its perhaps most visible prime-time pundit on the Comcast-owned cable TV news and political opinion network.

Since December 2012, he's been associated with iHeartMedia in Portsmouth, N.H., most recently as a Senior VP of Programming for the company's New Hampshire properties. But, he formally began his career at WKSQ-FM in Bangor, Me., and from 1991 through May 2012 was associated with WHOM-FM and WJBQ-FM in Portland, Me. As of today, he's now the President/CEO of the Maine Association of Broadcasters.

She's a "veteran dealmaker" who had departed her role as SVP of Business Affairs for Disney+ for a role with Anonymous Content. Now, she's back at Disney.

Connected TV and OTT ad platform provider Sabio Holdings Inc. has selected its first Chief Revenue Officer. Sabio calls him "a veteran leader with deep expertise in spearheading and scaling high-performance teams to deliver success through the company's next phase of growth." Until February 2020, he spent five years at the former WGN America.