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In August 2017, a four-decade radio industry veteran who started his career at an R&B station in New Orleans was coaxed out of 16 months of retirement to take on the role of VP/Market Manager of Entercom's stations in the Crescent City. Today, this individual is gone, and the former GSM of Entercom's Dallas-Fort Worth cluster has the title of SVP/Market Manager.

Video delivery platform maker SeaChange International has selected its new SVP/Chief Commercial Officer. It's the former Chief of Corporate Operations at ATEME.

GatesAir has strengthened its North American sales team with the appointment of an individual who brings three decades of industry and entrepreneurial experience to his new role, including sales and business development roles with Sony and Harris Corp.

In November 2017, Townsquare Media brought a veteran radio sales executive back to the industry by hiring her as Director of Regional Partnerships. She's now been promoted, and will take the role of VP/Partnership Sales for New Jersey at the media company led by CEO Bill Wilson.

The Michigan Association of Broadcasters and the MAB Foundation have selected the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award recipients and Hall of Fame inductees, to be honored August 6 at the JW Marriott in Grand Rapids as part of the MAB's annual Summer Conference.

Until two months ago, this individual served as the VP/GM of Cumulus Media's now-former Bridgeport, Conn., stations, now owned by Connoisseur Media. Now, it appears a day-to-day role at a group of radio stations within a couple of hours of New York was just too tempting an offer to pass up.

Digital audio and podcast industry data technology and streaming services provider Triton Digital has a new SVP/Market Development and Strategy for its Audience Research department. It's an individual who spent some 22 years at Nielsen.

The Asst. Program Director, Music Director and midday host of Alpha Media flagship Top 40 KBFF-FM "Live 95.5" in Portland has been selected as the 2019 MIW Group-Nielsen Music Programming Mentee. 

Eight weeks ago, the Radio Advertising Bureau held its biannual board of directors meeting in Atlanta. At the mid-October affair, a new slate of incoming directors was approved. On Friday, the RAB revealed who the three newly elected directors are.

Many RBR+TVBR readers know Doug Ferber for his role as a media broker, heading Dallas-based DEFcom Advisors, and for his editorial work alongside now-retired Foster Garvey attorney Erwin Krasnow. Now, radio industry engineers and C-Suiters charged with approving expenses will get to know Ferber for his new role at Tieline.

A 12-time local Emmy winner and 20-year bilingual news pro is leaving the North Texas Metroplex for the Big Apple. Once there, he'll serve as VP/News for the NBCUniversal Telemundo O&O serving the nation's biggest DMA.

The 2020 Celebration of Service to America Awards, previously scheduled for June 9, has been reimagined as a pre-recorded event. Through a partnership with Hollywood production company Trailer Park, the NAB Leadership Foundation will provide a broadcast-quality program showcasing the vital role of local media. The date of the event is forthcoming.

He was an original member of the senior management team at the former Triad Broadcasting, serving as an SVP from July 1999 through July 2013. From there, he served as Managing Director for Sports Media Team, a Louisville-based regional sports broadcast media and marketing company. Now, Steve Fehder has returned to radio, in Music City USA.

Shannon, the legendary air personality and radio programmer, is staying at Entercom-owned WCBS-FM in New York and will continue to host a syndicated program. In Philadelphia, an afternoon host who has been in the slot at a Beasley Classic Rocker since April 2002 has a new deal.

Since the 1980s, the New York Tri-State Area has enjoyed Jazz programming on the FM dial by way of a non-commercial FM licensed to Newark, N.J., with a transmitter that nine years ago relocated to Midtown Manhattan. This station now has a new President/CEO -- its programming consultant from March, and a former programming head who departed in 2018.