Media News

Does an owner of TV stations, a regional news network and two multicast networks need a Digital Product Management and Design team? The answer is "yes" for NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations.

USTN continues to distance itself from its recent financial troubles under its previous Australian owner by selecting a COO. It's an individual who has had previous leadership roles at Westwood One and at Shadow Broadcast Services/Metro Networks.

The former GSM of Cumulus Media's four-station Buffalo-Niagara Falls, N.Y. cluster has been appointed VP/Market Manager by the company that seeks to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the next six weeks.

The head of Salem Media Group's five radio stations in the Mile High City has just transferred to the company's stations in the capital of the Buckeye State. She is familiar with both Denver and Columbus, thanks to her work at her prior employer, Wilks Broadcasting.

Scott Porretti is taking a newly created position that adds operational oversight of this major national ad rep firm's digital video sales operations to his management of digital audio sales across the U.S. He's been associated with this rep firm since 1999.

An individual who was named by Streamline Publishing's Radio Ink as General Manager of the Year in 2014, 2015 and 2016 has just joined Salem Media Group. What he'll be doing is a bit of a secret.

The NAB Education Foundation (NABEF) has elected six new members to its board of directors. They include leaders from Graham Media Group, Cox Media Group, Sinclair Broadcasting Group, NBCUniversal, Univision Communications, and an owner of radio stations in Oklahoma, Georgia, and South Carolina.

A 30+-year media and TV executive who began his career in August 1986 as a media buyer and planner for Chicago-based Leo Burnett has just been appointed President/GM of one of TEGNA's top CBS affiliates in the South.

The network radio arm of Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS) has tapped "a seasoned radio executive" to spearhead its syndication strategy, manage affiliate relations and expand its footprint — in addition to widening the availability of SBS radio programming and digital division LaMusica's digital and live music content.

After nearly three years as a Nielsen Audio account director and many years with Arbitron and Scarborough Research, Laura Ivey will now be directing various aspects of Edison Research’s growing practice in audio and social media.

ABC O&O KGO-7 in San Francisco isn't the only television station owned by The Walt Disney Co. to get a new leader. The woman who most recently served as EVP/Sales & Marketing of Disney|ABC’s consolidated advertising sales group has been appointed President/GM of WABC-7 in New York.

When it came time for NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises to name a successor to Michelle Alban, its VP of Corporate Communications for some 15 years, it ultimately chose an individual who is fluent in Japanese. Taking the role is the woman who most recently served as SVP/Corporate & Public Affairs at Edelman, a role she had for some 8 years.

In October 2015, Paul Cicelski joined Lerman Senter PLLC as an attorney following a nearly 11-year tenure at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLC. Now, Cicelski is officially a Member of the firm.

The former VP and Director of Programming at an ABC O&O in the City of Brotherly Love has been chosen to serve as the new Senior VP of Television for the NAB. She begins her new duties some 90 minutes to the south of Philadelphia on March 1.

Cumulus Media-owned Westwood One is bolstering its network sales organization with new hires in Los Angeles and Chicago — including the return of a talk-intensive VP who previously spent two years at Veritone Inc. and, for 25 years before that, held a host of L.A. radio sales and management roles.