Media Moves

Sinclair Broadcast Group has awarded scholarships to seven university students as a part of its annual Diversity Scholarship program. Having provided more than $100,000 in tuition assistance during the last six years, the scholarship program aims to invest in the future of the broadcast industry.

There's a new Market Manager overseeing a 50kw Class A AM in Chicago, a station that was once the legendary WCFL. At the same time, the station's current owner, Good Karma Brands, has selected a Market Manager to lead its Madison, Wisc., operations.

Greg Fink joined Comscore in 2017. He exited as its Chief Financial Officer at the end of August 2021. Now, the audience and advertising measurement company led by CEO Bill Livek has named Fink's successor. He's a former Nielsen executive.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has appointed the former Chief of Staff for Alexandria City Public Schools in Northern Virginia as its first-ever SVP of Human Resources and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). He will begin his new job on December 6.

There's a new President for Katz Digital Video, the division within national ad sales operation Katz Media Group. It's an individual who first began his career in media sales in 1984, as a radio and television specialist working for President Reagan's reelection campaign.

Nexstar Media Group has selected a company leader with more than 25 years of broadcast management and sales experience to serve as the new VP/GM of "The CW 33" in Dallas — KDAF-TV. For the last four years, he's led the NBC affiliate serving Georgia's Coastal Empire.

He joined Nielsen in July 2016 as its VP of Finance, working his way up to SVP and Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer in December 2019. Effective November 12, this C-Suite executive will no longer be a member of the Nielsen family.

Starting Monday, two ABC affiliates in the Lone Star State owned by The E.W. Scripps Company will have a new VP/GM. It's an individual whose most recent TV industry role was as President/GM of the NBCUniversal-owned Telemundo affiliate serving Denver.

Ed Woloszyn, the General Manager of dual CBS/Fox affiliate KEYC-12 in Mankato, Minn., recently died following a brief cancer fight. Now, Gray Television has chosen the individual who will take over the station's leadership role. It's a woman who has been News Director for a former Quincy Media, Inc., property in Rochester, Minn.

Katz Media Group has elevated a veteran of the media sales organization to the role of Katz Digital Audio president. It's an individual who has held roles as a Katz Digital SVP and as a division EVP.

He's served as the President/GM of the Hearst Television-owned ABC affiliate in Jackson, Miss., and took that role five years ago. Now, he has been chosen to succeed Joel Vilmenay at its NBC affiliate serving New Orleans.

There's a change in leadership for the NBC affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group in Terre Haute, Indiana.  And, this individual will also oversee the company's operational agreements with close partner Mission Broadcasting tied to the market's ABC affiliate.

Gray Television has promoted an individual who first joined its NBC affiliate serving Alexandria, Va., to the top leadership role at the station. At the same time, it has selected a station veteran to replace the retiring Matt Eldridge as the head of ABC affiliate in Reno, Nev.

The individual who rose from an account executive to Local Sales Manager in December 2020 for iHeartMedia's Minneapolis-St. Paul radio stations has been promoted once again. Meet the new VP of Sales for the company's Twin Cities radio properties.

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