Media Moves

A 30+-year media and TV executive who began his career in August 1986 as a media buyer and planner for Chicago-based Leo Burnett has just been appointed President/GM of one of TEGNA's top CBS affiliates in the South.

For the past seven months, Zachary has been SVP/Market Manager for Entercom’s Southern New England Region, and before that held the VP/Market Manager dual role in Boston for four years. He will also continue as Market Manager in Hartford, CT, while the company searches for a permanent replacement.

A veteran corporate strategy leader most recently with Orlando Sentinel and Baltimore Sun owner Tronc has just taken the role of VP/Strategy, New Business and Corporate Development at a media company in the process of selling off all of its radio stations.

Beasley Media Group has two more National Format Brand Managers in its stable of programming prowess professionals. One is the PD of its recently acquired Sports station in Boston. The other is a Beantown radio veteran who presently serves as PD of Beasley's Country station in the Hub.

Video delivery platform maker SeaChange International has selected its new SVP/Chief Commercial Officer. It's the former Chief of Corporate Operations at ATEME.

This former radio station owner -- the twin brother of a noted media broker -- passed away Tuesday of an apparent heart attack just shy of his 68th birthday.

The E.W. Scripps Company has hired a former GM for the NBC affiliate serving Johnstown, Pa., as its new VP/GM and Director of Sales for the ABC station serving the southern San Joaquin Valley.

Renee Washington, who has served as Assistant News Director of NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations O&O KNBC-4 in L.A. since fall 2018, has just been upped to an executive news role.

Incoming directors' terms run from July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2022. Effective July 1, the officers for the MFM-BCCA Board of Directors include Manship Media CEO Ralph Bender as Chair. Bender took a key role in staging the 2019 Media Finance Focus conference in New Orleans.

On October 5, 1973, trade publication Radio and Records debuted. Nancy Hoff was there, in a chief role within the advertising department. Except for a brief absence in the 1980s, Hoff remained a vital presence at R&R until the publication's demise. Hoff died of cancer on Wednesday.

The Broadcasters Foundation of America has revealed the recipient of its 2020 Golden Mike Award. It's the President/CEO of the television broadcasting company formerly known as Gannett.

For the past four years, he's served as President/GM of a pair of CBS O&Os in one of America's top markets. With those stations now unified with Viacom under the newly born ViacomCBS, this 35-year pro who began his career at WUSA-9 in Washington, D.C., is heading to Western N.Y.

The 2020 NAB Show's invitation-only Executive Leadership Summit (ELS) has secured the Chairman of WarnerMedia Entertainment for a Sunday Keynote address that will see the leader discuss opportunities for the company and plans for its six newly aligned sibling companies.

For 19 years, Bailey Coleman has been a vivid voice and featured face of WKKV-FM in Milwaukee, an Urban Contemporary station that signed on the air in June 1991 and has been owned by iHeartMedia through predecessor Clear Channel Communications for 24 years, since its acquisition from Herb McCord's Granum Communications. As of Monday, Coleman's tenure in Wisconsin concluded. She's now in New Orleans, taking a bigger role at iHeart.

After 12 years as President and Executive Director of the Kansas Association of Broadcasters (KAB), Kent Cornish will retire at the end of May. Who's succeeding him the role?