Media Moves

In a move the Apollo Global Management-controlled broadcast media company believes will strengthen its leadership "in driving digital revenue growth and innovation across its markets," Cox Media Group has named a Senior Director of Digital Sales.

In 1987 she took the role of an account executive at the former WDBN-FM in Medina, Ohio. She then joined WNIR in Akron before shifting to a pair of stations in Mansfield, Ohio. Over the years, that station group grew to become a seven-station cluster, one that she would lead. Now, Margie Tasseff is retiring.

She's a San Diego-based veteran of the U.S. Hispanic media marketplace, and from May 2005 through July 2023 was associated with Univision Communications, exiting as President and Regional General Manager of the company's San Diego, Las Vegas and Rio Grande Valley radio stations. Now, she's joined the RAB.

He most recently served as Local Sales Manager for WRTV-6 in Indianapolis and exited with its sale to DuJuan McCoy's Circle City Broadcasting. Meet the new VP/General Manager of Sinclair Inc.'s two stations in the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City market.

For the exclusive global provider of Philips Professional Displays, Nicole Rutherford brings "a tidal wave of knowledge, experience, and entrepreneurial flair" to PPDS. She is based in Hudson, Fla., and reports to Director of North America Marketing Megan Lipinczyk.

The trade organization and political advocacy group representing some 500 small and medium-sized MVPDs has shared the results of the reelection of officers to its Board of Directors and Executive Committee.

After more than six years, Matt Stockman is stepping down as Chief Programming Officer at Pillar Media to focus on his consulting practice serving nonprofit and Christian radio organizations in a full-time capacity. His last day at Pillar will be August 31.

The VP of News for the two NBCU Local Telemundo Station Group properties serving Hispanics across Arizona has been appointed News Director for both the Telemundo and NBC owned-and-operated properties serving the Cradle of Liberty and the entire Delaware Valley.

The Library of American Broadcasting Foundation has unveiled the four recipients of its inaugural LABF Preservation Grants. Each of the selected applicants will receive a grant of $2,500 to be used to preserve specific elements of broadcast history.

His resume features stations once owned by Doubleday prior to their sale to Emmis Broadcasting. Now, many industry veterans are pausing to remember Pat McNally, who died on May 7.

She's been associated with the nation's largest single owner of broadcast television stations since May 2009 and before that was VP of Legal Affairs for First Broadcasting. Now, she will serve as Executive VP/General Counsel and Secretary to the Board of Directors of the company founded 30 years ago by Perry Sook.

He's been nestled in the Tri-State region that includes Cape Girardeau, Mo.; Paducah, Ky.; and communities in Illinois since December 2017, when he joined Max Media's River Radio properties as Director of Sales and General Sales Manager. Now, you can call him the General Manager.

As the owner of the New Orleans Saints and New Orleans Pelicans, giving back to the Crescent City has become what the NAB Leadership Foundation calls a hallmark of her leadership. This is why the NABLF 2026 Celebration of Service to America Leadership Award is being presented to Gayle Benson.

There's a new general manager at the CBS affiliate in Bryan-College Station, Tex., owned by Gray Media. It's a woman who most recently led sales for a Graham Media Group property in Central Florida.

There's a new News Director coming to Hearst Television's ABC affiliate serving Central Mississippi, and he'll be starting his new role on June 1. It involves a move from a former longtime ABC affiliate that went independent in August 2025.