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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.

It borrows its name from a famed street that's home to popular drinking establishments and has established itself as a broadcast technology services and systems integration firm. As of today, Inrush Broadcast Services has a new Chief Executive Officer.

He has "deep Oklahoma roots" and "a strong belief in the power of local broadcasting." That's why Hiram Champlin remains committed to keeping programming and leadership "grounded in state values," and has selected a new President/COO for twin radio broadcasting licensees under his ownership.

It is returning for its 11th season on September 7, with Sharyl Attkisson ready to present fresh episodes of a Sinclair-syndicated newsmagazine focused on investigative reporting and hard-hitting news subjects of national importance.

A trio of radio stations serving the seat of Dawson County, Nebraska have a new Market Manager, the Nebraska Rural Radio Association (NRRA) has announced. And, it is a woman who brings more than a quarter-century of experience to the company.