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The two biggest noncommercial radio stations serving the Lone Star State's capital has been upped to a role in which he will a strategic advisor to the general manager and oversee the station’s membership, development, marketing and community engagement teams. 

It owns a Gospel-formatted AM with an FM translator; an Adult R&B AM with its own FM translator; and an independent Class A low-power TV station presently home to a host of digital multicast networks.  These three properties now have a new day-to-day leader.

Audacy Inc. has revealed who Spike Eskin's successor will be as Sports Format Vice President as Eskin will now focus on his afternoon drive program on the company's WIP-FM in Philadelphia. It is an individual largely known for his tenure at WJFK-FM in Washington, D.C.

The retirement of founding CEO Alan Chartock put the wheels in motion on a successor to an individual who made WAMC/Northeast Public Radio a major NPR Member service across a wide swath of Upstate New York and the Berkshires. The Board of Trustees has selected Chartock's successor.

A former Scotiabank executive VP is now responsible for leading the sales and marketing, digital, brand, product and community relations teams of Cogeco's telecommunications business across Canada and the United States.

The Steve Newberry-led Quu Inc., the broadcast technology enterprise focused on enhanced in-dash visual content for radio, has launched a new division focused on national advertising. Leading it: an individual known for his radio and media sales expertise.

He joined Cumulus Media seven years ago to serve as VP/Market Manager of its Chicago radio stations. Now he is tacking on similar duties in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region amid a reduction-in-force initiative at the publicly traded company that has seen an 85% dip in its stock price over the last year.

The made-for-TV movie was a genre that helped to make Irv Wilson an integral broadcast TV executive in the 1970s. Wilson died on Thursday at the age of 93, following a short illness. His work includes an acclaimed account of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which aired on ABC some 50 years ago as a "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation.

Two Hispanic media leaders and a Cumulus Media C-Suite executive have each been appointed to the NAB Radio Board of Directors to fill vacancies. The appointments are effective immediately and were made by NAB Radio Board Chair Collin Jones in accordance with NAB bylaws.

From a new "Bulk Actions" feature to an enhanced user interface for improved meeting workflows, Tightrope Media Systems is ready to show off the latest version of its Cablecast product — and will do so in a West Hall booth at the Las Vegas Convention Center during the 2025 NAB Show. 

For 35 season, he was an integral part of the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs organization, serving as Executive Producer of the Chiefs Radio Network. Described as a pillar of the community by WDAF "FOX 4," he had been battling cancer.  Now, Chiefs Kingdom is mourning the loss of Dan Israel.

Come May 2025, the head of Arkansas PBS will exit, starting the search for the successor of a woman who joined the statewide noncommercial network in 2017 and "leaves behind a legacy of transformative leadership and innovative growth across content, education and community engagement."