Media Moves

When it came time to select the next Director of Sales for Cox Media Group's radio stations in San Antonio, it ultimately went with a former Drill Instructor and a six-year special investigator and SWAT officer with the Greenville, N.C. police department.

Since August 2016, Yesenia Bello has been the U.S Multicultural Sales Lead for one of the world's biggest digital media companies. For many in media, she's also remembered for her many years at Telemundo. Now, she's taking a key multicultural sales role focused on African American and Hispanic programming at the No. 1 owner of radio stations in the U.S.

Ken Lagana, the EVP/Digital Sales for Entercom Communications, now has a deputy to manage advertising opportunities for its Radio.com platform and its brands across podcasting and streaming squarely focused on East Coast clients.

Brent Millar will soon retire as SVP/Market Manager for Entercom Communications' Greensboro station group. We now know who will be assuming his duties once he transitions to his non-workaday life.

Morgan’s Country Kitchen is a popular breakfast and lunch spot in an area of Palm Beach County, Fla., known more for its warehouses than its beaches or nearby polo grounds. Just minutes from a popular concert venue, Morgan's business was decimated due to the novel coronavirus. A Hubbard Radio Country station helped save it.

For 15 years, she served as SVP/Finance at CBS Radio, now a part of Entercom. As part of her duties, she led the division through its initial public offering preparation and its sale to Entercom in 2017 in a tax-free Reverse Morris Trust merger. Now, Stacey Benson is to be CFO of CBS News.

For the past five years, Kristen Corra represented "a leading national wireless communications company" in matters relating to the acquisition and leasing of site facilities for a major law firm from offices in Nashville. Now, she's joining one of Washington's most prominent communications law firms.

And, there are correspondents based in New York and Los Angeles for this new daily syndicated 30-minute program named after the PEOPLE brand, which Meredith owns. Here are all of the details.

The chief executive of Beasley Media Group succeeds Michael J. Fiorile, Chairman of the Dispatch Printing Company. He has been selected to serve as Presiding Director of the BMI Board. In addition, the BMI Board of Directors has extended Mike O’Neill’s contract.

Susan O’Connell has spent the past 40 years managing News/Talk radio affiliate sales at such entities as The Wall Street Journal Radio Network, ABC Radio Networks, and CBS News. For the last six years has been in a key role at Compass Media Networks. Now, she is retiring. But, who is succeeding her?

Most recently he provided brand strategy, consumer insights, and custom market research as a consultant for NBCUniversal, Disney, Crown Media and the Weather Channel. Now, he's the new Chief Research Officer at The E.W. Scripps Company.

His appointment to head Rohde & Schwarz’s Broadcast and Media Division supports the strategic shift in the Munich-based tech company's approach toward its core markets and reinforces the company’s intention of becoming more disruptive in production, delivery and distribution workflow management and software-centric products and systems.

PromoSuite has revealed who its new VP of Product Design & Development is. It is someone who joined PromoSuite in 2018 to lead the design and development of the new PromoSuitePlus platform.

The Digital Division of Nexstar Media Group has promoted its Connecticut-based VP of Strategy and Business Intelligence to the role of Chief Strategy Officer and EVP/Strategy & Data for the digital segment of the broadcast TV station owner.

Last week, veteran conservative Talk radio host Larry Elder revealed that he seeks to become a Republican candidate for California governor. He is not on the preliminary list of 41 candidates, however. Sacramento has a reason. Elder isn't buying it, and has sued California's office of the secretary of state.