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Fueling rumors that changes are ahead at Cox Media Group, the woman who has been Director of Sales at the company's San Antonio radio stations has departed after six years in the Alamo City. Effective Jan. 28. she'll now be in a similar role, in a bigger market, for Entercom.

The individual who has led the standards development organization shepherding the broadcast TV industry -- and consumers -- to the next-generation standard known as "ATSC 3.0" has confirmed he will retire later this year.

On March 31, Larry Oaks will retire as VP/Engineering and Technology for Meredith Corp.'s Local Media Group. Oaks' successor has just been named.

Beasley Media Group's recently launched eSports division has selected its first VP of Strategic Partnerships. In doing so, the publicly traded radio broadcasting company seeking to branch out beyond its core assets has lured the founder and CEO of Go Media Detroit, a digital media ad agency in the Motor City.

After 6 1/2 years, the VP/Marketing and Audience Development for Raycom Media found himself out of a job, thanks to the company's merger with Gray Television. Now, this individual has resurfaced in the Grand Canyon State, as the Station Manager for a pair of TEGNA-owned stations.

In October 2018, Todd Brown was promoted to the dual roles of Local Media Group SVP and Chief Revenue Officer at Meredith Corp. Brown's former role as VP/GM of the FOX affiliate serving Southern Nevada has now been filled.

Local Radio Networks (LRN) has added to its team of "24/7 music format experts" by bringing in a new VP of Affiliate Sales. This individual takes the role after serving nearly 13 years as VP of Affiliate Management at Westwood One, and before that five years as its VP of Affiliate Sales.

The law firm widely known as the home for respected communications law attorney David Oxenford is welcoming its second new lawyer in a week.

After six years overseeing the Nexstar-owned CBS affiliate in the market that is home to the Buffalo Bills NFL franchise, René LaSpina is heading south to a new leadership role that could see her embrace a Bills rival — the Tennessee Titans. Thank Meredith Corp. for the move.

Nielsen's new CEO now has a fresh face at the top of its legal department, starting Jan. 22. Eric J. Dale has resigned as Chief Legal Officer "to pursue an opportunity" outside of the fiscally wounded provider of ratings data to media companies and advertisers and agencies. Replacing him is the former President of the The Weather Channel.

An eLearning company based in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, Kan., that focuses on being the broadcast industry’s “first preference” for fun, simplified online training has named its first President.

When it came time for iHeartMedia to select a New York-based EVP of its SmartAudio Intelligence Insights arm, it successfully lured back an individual who had exited the debtor-in-possession media giant in July.

The opening keynote spotlight conversation at the 2019 NAB Show Executive Leadership Summit (ELS) will be delivered Sunday, April 7, in Las Vegas by the head of FOX Entertainment.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has selected its executive who will work closely with public media’s national organizations, local stations and independent content producers to accelerate cultural transformation, innovation, and content creation throughout the public media system.

What does the owner of the former CBS Radio stations have in common with a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group working on behalf of the nation's biggest life insurance companies? The President/CEO of the Capitol Hill voice of life insurers has just been appointed to that radio company's Board of Directors.