Media Moves

She spent eight years in London as Nielsen's European Digital Lead, but before that was in New York for 35 years, "climbing the incumbent's corporate ladder" in roles including EVP/GM of Ad Solutions. Now, she's coming back stateside, but for a role as Chief Commercial Officer of "single-source advertising effectiveness currency" Beatgrid.

On Wednesday, RBR+TVBR reported on Nancie Sullivan's promotion to SVP of Sales for iHeartMedia Phoenix. Now the eight-station cluster has named her successor; Cressy Walton will take over as VP of Sales, reporting directly to Sullivan.

This sales pro will be responsible for "driving client success, leading the sales management team, and working closely with sellers and growing revenue" in an ever-growing region stretching from Wickenburg to Queen Creek and Mesa.

This year's classes officially began last week at NAB Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Since BLT's inception, nearly 400 broadcasters have graduated from NABLF’s flagship program and over 70 percent have been promoted one or more times since graduating.

“These broadcasters bring a wealth of experience, leadership and a unique perspective to our board of directors,” said NABLF President Michelle Duke. “We are excited for this group of changemakers to provide their guidance and expertise to our initiatives and programs as we work to create a more diverse broadcast industry.”

The Library of American Broadcasting Foundation (LABF) will recognize distinguished industry leaders for lifetime achievements during the 2023 Giants of Broadcasting & Electronic Arts luncheon and awards ceremony. The annual event will take place on Tuesday, November 14 at Gotham Hall in New York.

If you enjoy the NewsNation offering in the 9pm Eastern time slot, you're in luck: Dan Abrams Live is not going anywhere for the next several years, thanks to a new agreement announced Tuesday by the Nexstar Media Group-owned cable television network.

The individual who serves as Brand Manager for "Newsradio" KRLD-AM 1080 in Dallas-Fort Worth has been appointed Format Vice President for all of Audacy Inc.'s News/Talk radio stations, including many of the legacy CBS Radio all-News properties in the nation's top markets.

The Brand Manager for Audacy's Adult Hits KZJK "104.1 JACK FM" in Minneapolis-St. Paul is adding the Operations Manager role for the station and its Country sibling serving the Twin Cities. 

Premion, TEGNA's Connected TV and OTT advertising platform for regional and local advertisers, is welcoming a Head of Political Sales. With extensive experience in convergent linear and Connected TV sales, he joins Premion from Freewheel, where he served as North American Head of Sales of Demand Ad Tech.

Adam Kurtz today serves as Senior Vice President of Sales for the Chicago region for the nation's No. 1 owner of radio stations, iHeartMedia. He now has a deputy, with the VP/Sales role going to the former Local Sales Manager for TelevisaUnivision's stations in the nation's third-largest market.

The News Director at Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned ABC affiliate WLOS-13, serving western North Carolina, has accepted a similar position at CBS News and Stations' owned-and-operated TV station serving the Twin Cities.  He'll start his new duties on November 27, replacing Kari Patey, who is rising to a newly created role.

For generations of Southern Californians, he's known as the brainchild behind the "Los Angeles Radio People" website, which kept an ongoing log of nearly every individual who worked at an AM or FM in the nation's No. 2 market by size between 1957 and 1997. Today, Don Barrett is being mourned by many of those individuals he kept tabs of.

From 2008-2018, he held the role of VP/Market Manager of Beasley Media Group's Las Vegas properties, shifting to the properties after a decade as Market Manager for CBS Radio's stations in the market. Now, Tom Humm is returning to Beasley/Las Vegas, for a newly created role.

He programmed iHeartMedia's Alternative KYSR-FM “ALT 98-7” in Los Angeles until moving to New York in May 2018 for a programming post with Audacy Inc., then known under its original name, Entercom. He then returned to Los Angeles, assuming Brand Manager responsibilities for KROQ-FM in February 2020. Now, he's returning to iHeartMedia, but not in Gotham or in Hollywood.