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Ad tech company VideoAmp is welcoming the addition of the former Chief U.S. Advertising Sales Officer at Warner Bros. Discovery to its Board of Directors. 

It has been making many leadership moves across its newly integrated stations and its properties in its heritage markets. Now, Connoisseur Media has made a series of sales promotions at its stations in Connecticut and in Nassau-Suffolk, N.Y.

The New York Festivals 2026 Radio Awards, celebrating creative excellence in audio storytelling, is open for entries. And, the Radio Awards is "expanding its reach" with the introduction of the new category. It's a move NYF says is reflective of the growing role of visual storytelling in audio-driven media.

He's widely known as the individual who helped to create The Museum of Broadcast Communications and for various programs on WGN-AM. Now, many are pausing to remember the life and contributions of Bruce DuMont, who has died at the age of 81.

The Museum of Broadcast Communications has announced the 2025 Legends inductees into the Radio Hall of Fame. The honor recognizes on-air personalities, programmers, and executives who made lasting contributions to radio and have since passed away.

He's been at NPR since 2024, when he was named Managing Editor, Editorial Review and established an internal review process that added independent oversight to every story. Before that, he spent nearly eight years at CNN. Now, he is succeeding Edith Chapin at the nation's main secular noncomm audio brand.

For some 25 years, Andrés Cantor has sought to attract Spanish-language radio listeners who can't miss a minute of FIFA World Cup action by investing a significant amount of money in the rights to the biggest sports tournament on the planet. Now, the company created to support the World Cup action is welcoming a Chief Digital Officer.

It's a whole new Connoisseur Media, with all of the former Alpha Media's broadcast assets joining the company's heritage properties on Long Island, N.Y., and along the Connecticut shoreline. As such, new Format Coordinators are in place, reporting to SVP of Programming Keith Dakin.

She joined the DuJuan McCoy-owned Circle City Broadcasting some six years ago as Content Manager for The CW affiliate serving Indianapolis and in 2023 advanced to News Brand Manager. Two years later, she was named Assistant News Director. Now, she's the new News Director for WISH-8.

A woman who most recently served as a Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication professor and the News Director of the "OU Nightly News" student-produced live weekday newscast has joined Sinclair Inc.'s "FOX 25" and non-affiliated sibling in Oklahoma City.

The E.W. Scripps Company has promoted from within to fill the twin roles of General Manager and News Director for the ABC affiliate serving Tucson and the nonaffiliated sibling branded as "Arizona 58."

The company that just completed its acquisition of Alpha Media has completed a series of leadership promotions and a programming appointment in its two pre-merger locales: Nassau-Suffolk and Fairfield County/New Haven, Conn.

The division of Sinclair Inc. that is the home of Dielectric; Tennis Channel; and the Digital Remedy ad tech unit has a new Principal — a newly created role that will see him help shape the "long-term investment strategy and drive growth across various asset classes, as well as sourcing majority-owned investments."

Havas Media Network/North America is expanding the leadership role of the Chief Executive Officer for Noise Digital by naming him Head of CSA/North America. It's an appointment that comes some 27 years after Noise Digital's creation.

KTLM-TV, known as “Telemundo 40” to viewers across Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, has named a new News Director. He’ll be joining the NBCUniversal Local’s Telemundo Station Group property on September 29.