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On Tuesday (1/23), Beasley Broadcast Group's Board of Directors amended the radio broadcasting company's bylaws and, in doing so, increased the size of the board from nine to ten directors. Who is the 10th director? It is the Chairman/CEO of The Dispatch Printing Company.

Meredith Corporation's VP/News & Marketing has just taken on a much bigger role at the media company's 17 owned and/or operated TV stations across the U.S. As of today, this individual is now EVP/Operations for the Local Media Group, with all station operations and GMs reporting directly to him.

Sinclair Broadcast Group has asked its GM of its Boise, Idaho duopoly to pack his bags and truck west along Interstate 84 to the Rose City to take on a bigger role at the media company seeking to complete its merger with Tribune Media.

As RBR+TVBR continues its look back at 2017 and peek into what will make headlines in the next 12 months, we reviewed the total number of broadcast radio and TV transactions seen since January. Given all of the talk about what the FCC under Chairman Ajit Pai would do for the deal-making market, was 2017 a disappointment for brokers? Here's what Robert Heymann, Chicago-based Director for Media Services Group has to say about that.

The Mentoring & Inspiring Women in Radio (MIW) Group has opened the application window for its 2018 Mildred Carter MIW Group Mentoring Program. Currently in its 17th year, this experience pairs up-and-coming women who currently work in the radio industry with female professionals recognized as leaders in all aspects of radio broadcasting and media. Beasley Media Group has committed to provide support as the lead sponsor of the 2018 initiative.

The seven-year Director of Traffic and Weather Operations at a big Hubbard Radio station has just joined iHeart-owned Total Traffic & Weather Network to oversee its operations in the New York Tri-State Area.

This individual will transition from her current role in sales oversight for the five Neuhoff markets to her new VP/Market Manager position. She will also continue to serve as Corporate Vice President/Special Projects for the company.

Radio One has promoted the VP/GM of its Atlanta radio stations to a Regional Vice President position. The move gives this nine-year veteran of the Urban One radio division's Peachtree City stations new duties that now include Reach Media, the radio programming syndication arm of publicly traded Urban One.

Don't think for a minute that Democratic FCC Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel and Mignon Clyburn had the backing of multicultural broadcasting companies with respect to the soon-to-die Main Studio Rule enacted in 1939. The Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council (MMTC) on Tuesday immediately responded to the Commission's 3-2 party-line vote to kill the rule by offering its congratulations.

This industry advocate will be stepping aside at year's end as the EVP of the NAB Television Department. But, he won't be any less active at the NAB Education Foundation (NABEF).

The individual who has served as VP/Sales of Hearst Television since 2014 has just been promoted to SVP/Sales. His resume includes stints for WPIX-11 in New York, WBAL-11 in Baltimore, and the CW affiliate in the Nation's Capital.

A veteran marketing and creative executive at NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises' Telemundo has accepted the role of SVP/Marketing & Creative for the Telemundo Networks. She will continue to be based in Miami.

Two weeks after 14-year company veteran Adam Symson took the reins as President/CEO of The E.W. Scripps Company, he's already putting his stamp on the media operation previously led by the now-retired Rich Boehne. 

Some media companies say they are all about serving the communities in which their stations are located. One company, with stations in small cities located across New York State, South Carolina, and Florida's Panhandle, is all about community. If not, this operator's very name would be a misnomer. In this exclusive RBR+TVBR INFOCUS report, we peek inside the studios and offices of a cluster of stations owned by a company that's all about being loyally local.

Urban One's Radio One has assigned its OM for the company's Cleveland and Cincinnati radio stations additional duties for its Columbus, Ohio, stations. The move comes as the individual that had been leading the company's radio properties in the Ohio state capital drives west on I-70 to become Radio's One new OM in Indianapolis.