Media Moves

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.

He's been associated with the noncommercial, secular public radio stations serving the New York Tri-State Area since February 2019. Now, the Chief Content Officer for New York Public Radio is stepping down from the role. 

Since March 2021 she has served as Director of Sales for the radio stations serving Beaumont, Tex., and Lake Charles, La., owned and operated by Cumulus Media. Effective October 1, she'll now be overseeing the company's Johnson City-Bristol-Kingsport, Tenn. properties as VP/Market Manager.

He's a veteran media sales executive who spent more than a decade with Charter Communications through early 2014; spent three years as Florida Director of Automotive Advertising Sales and Business Development for Comcast Spotlight; and subsequently held roles as Director of Sales at WCNC-TV in Charlotte and, after that, at KUSA-9 in Denver. Now, he's joining iHeartMedia.

Local Radio Networks (LRN) is welcoming its 19th 24/7 music format, and it is an offering that began as an ABC Radio Networks-delivered offering created by a man who at the time was co-host of the morning show for WPLJ in New York.

Since 2021, he has served as Hearst Television’s corporate director of sales, based at the company’s Boston flagship station, WCVB-5. Now, he's been promoted to VP/Sales for the privately held broadcast TV station owner.