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As the owner of the New Orleans Saints and New Orleans Pelicans, giving back to the Crescent City has become what the NAB Leadership Foundation calls a hallmark of her leadership. This is why the NABLF 2026 Celebration of Service to America Leadership Award is being presented to Gayle Benson.

There's a new general manager at the CBS affiliate in Bryan-College Station, Tex., owned by Gray Media. It's a woman who most recently led sales for a Graham Media Group property in Central Florida.

There's a new News Director coming to Hearst Television's ABC affiliate serving Central Mississippi, and he'll be starting his new role on June 1. It involves a move from a former longtime ABC affiliate that went independent in August 2025. 

MLC Media Senior Advisor Jeffery Liberman will be making his first Hispanic Radio Conference appearance in his new role by sitting down for a conversation with Zach Sang, who built one of the most-followed interview platforms in digital media. They'll offer lessons all in Spanish-language radio can immediately apply.

He has 40 years of experience in public media, and for PBS Wisconsin, his leadership, statewide community focus, programmatic vision, and development acumen advanced its national prominence in education, innovation and fundraising around mission-focused Wisconsin programs. Now, Jon Miskowski is retiring.

The organization that oversees the operations of NPR Member WNYC Radio, Classical WQXR and the Gothamist general interest news and entertainment news website has added three women to executive-level roles, each of whom will report to Christy Tanner.

Its properties include seven distinct television brands serving the Delmarva region and a collection of FM radio stations stretching from Wilmington, Del., and Havre de Grace, Md., to its home market of Salisbury-Ocean City, Md. As of today, these properties are under the leadership of a new President.

The NAB's 2026 Marconi Radio Award nomination window is now open, and will remain so through the month of May. Award winners will be announced during a special dinner program presented by HD Radio and DTS AutoStage parent Xperi on Tuesday, Oct. 20.

Who are the recipients of the Diane Sutter Shooting Star Award and the Broadcast Leadership Training (BLT) Champion Award?  We now know that this year's honors went to KOAT-TV's VP/GM and the recently retired FCC Video Division chief, respectively.

He's been with DMR/Interactive since taking the post of VP of Marketing Strategy in December 2019, helping shape the company's strategy as media consumption habits were shook by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, he's been promoted to Executive VP of Strategy and Growth.

In these newly-created leadership roles, both executives will be responsible for leading and driving broadcast advertising revenue in addition to developing and overseeing newly created enterprise-level preferred partnerships with agency holding companies across all of the AMG expansive portfolio of broadcast, cable, and digital streaming assets.

He began his career at WPVI‑TV in Philadelphia in 1993 as a news writer for Action News. Now, he is being promoted to the role of President/General Manager of the ABC Owned Stations property among eight facing an early license renewal order handed to The Walt Disney Co. by the FCC this week.

She's an actress known for such 1990s classics as Groundhog Day and Four Weddings and a Funeral. On May 19, she will be bestowed with the Gracies Icon Award at a Beverly Hills ceremony from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation.

Some 40 years ago, they were among the most listened-to spoken word stations in the nation. Today, they operate in a vastly different landscape, leading Cumulus Media to rethink who should program two of its big-signal Golden State AM radio stations. The stations' new Program Director was announced on Monday.

Since joining Sinclair in 2021, he has overseen its compliance programs and regulatory strategy, helping ensure alignment with evolving industry standards and requirements, overseeing key regulatory areas including FCC, antitrust, privacy and corporate conduct. May 4 marks his final day in that role.