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Raúl Alarcón Jr. has previously served on MMTC’s Board of Advisors. Now, he has become "an invaluable addition to MMTC’s Board of Directors," says board chair and Treasurer Ronald Johnson.

Mike Renda is set to retire as the GM of FOX's owned-and-operated station serving the Motor City. The individual chosen to succeed him at WJBK-2 has now been revealed.

From January 2003 through June 2019, Marcellus Alexander Jr. served as an NAB Senior Advisor and as President of the NAB Leadership Foundation. He now has a new role, and it involves one of the nation's largest broadcast TV companies: Scripps.

Katz Media Group's digital division, Katz Digital, has promoted three individuals to Senior Vice President roles while elevating a staffer to Digital Business Operations Lead. All report to EVP Scott Porretti.

There are two new VPs of Audio Network Sales at Entravision. One is a former Account Executive at Emmis Communications; the other has spent the past three years as VP/Network Sales at Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS).

In 1982, Chris Berry became a Producer at KNX in Los Angeles. Today, Berry has a resume full of highlights, including stints at ABC News Radio, WBBM-AM in Chicago, a top Talker in the Nation's Capital and, since 2017, at iHeartMedia. The top brass at iHeart has just cemented Berry's place in the company by elevating him to an EVP role.

After nearly seven years at Nielsen as a Media Analytics Consulting VP, Idil Miriam Cakim has exited the company. She'll now be getting more familiar with the goings-on inside 345 Hudson Street, on Manhattan's West Side.

The NAB has announced the results of the 2020 NAB Radio and Television Board elections. The two-year terms of the elected board members will begin in June 2020. There are four new members of the Radio Board, while the six-member TV Board is welcoming the EVP/COO of Media Operations at TEGNA.

For much of the 2000s, he was a top ad sales executive at NBCUniversal. Since February 2012, he had been known as the national ad specialist for Twentieth Television. Now, this 1983 Hobart and William Smith Colleges English degree holder has been named the Executive Director of asset management company Manhattan West.

Johnette Cochran cut her teeth at a Shreveport, La., radio station group then-owned by the company operated by Chesley Maddox-Dorsey. Today, she's in Eastern Maryland, and has just been upped to VP/GM of the Adams Radio Group stations serving the Salisbury-Ocean City area.

One week ago, RBR+TVBR shared the news about the upcoming retirement of Timothy J. Morrissey, who six years ago gained leadership duties for WJCL-22 in Savannah. We now know who will take his place at the helm of the ABC affiliate serving Southeastern Georgia and the Hilton Head Island region of South Carolina.

GatesAir, the company known for its delivery of TV and radio broadcast signals to consumers worldwide, has promoted from within to take on the role of Chief Revenue Officer. It sees a 35-year broadcast veteran take ownership of global sales activity, with all regional sales leaders across GatesAir's four global regions reporting to him.

Established in 2002, the MIW’s heritage annual mentoring initiative connects mentees with accomplished women recognized as leaders, mentors, and game-changers within all aspects of radio broadcasting; vCreative is sponsoring the program for the second consecutive year. Hurry! The deadline to apply is rapidly approaching.

There are two new members of the National Association of Broadcasters' TV Board of Directors. Concurrently, there is a new addition to the NAB's Radio Board of Directors, and it is the person in charge of such radio stations as Easy 93.1 in Miami and K99.1 in Dayton.

A trio of experienced local broadcast TV station leaders have been selected to oversee Nexstar Media Group's respective stations in Knoxville; Roanoke-Lynchburg; and Myrtle Beach, S.C.