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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.

A longtime corporate sales executive at Sinclair Broadcast Group has just received a promotion. An individual who took a top-level role as Corporate Director of Sales for the broadcast media company in April 2007 and rose to VP of Sales in June 2010 is now in a newly created role at Sinclair. The appointment comes as the company edges closer to regulatory approval of its merger with Tribune Media.

Longtime television personality Deborah Norville, host of the syndicated entertainment newsmagazine Inside Edition, has been chosen to host the Broadcasters Foundation of America’s 2018 Golden Mike Award. This black-tie fundraiser scheduled for March 5 in New York, one of the Broadcasters Foundation's biggest events, honors the President/CEO of Graham Media.

The VP/GM of a Raycom station in New Orleans has been promoted to a regional role at the TV station owner. His new duties involve his current station; two stations in Cape Girardeau, Mo., he previously led; a property in Knoxville; and two other small-market operations.

Fox Networks Group has promoted its President of Technology and Innovation to the outright role of President of its Digital Consumer Group (DCG). The move frees up its President/COO to focus on his role, as he had been also handling those duties.

There'll be no heartbreak for Thea Mitchem or the two individuals she reports to at iHeartMedia anytime soon. The National Programming Group's EVP/Programming for iHeart's Northeast Division is sticking around for a while, thanks to a long-term contract extension inked today

There are 14 companies that are now forced to seek "vendor recovery" funds from the State of New York, as a Bankruptcy Court in New York has approved of a plan to terminate any payments owed to the largely mom-and-pop operations by the nation's No. 2 radio broadcasting company by number of stations. That didn't stop Cumulus Media from giving its EVP/Corporate Marketing and WW1 President a raise.

There's a new OM and Content Director for two of Alpha Media's five radio stations in Nielsen Audio Market No. 64. It's an individual who most recently served as SVP/Programming for iHeartMedia's Cincinnati station group.