Media News

Main Street Sports Group LLC, the regional sports network parent formerly known as Diamond Sports Group that oversees the FanDuel Sports Network brands (previously Bally Sports and, before that, FOX Sports), has a new President of Production and Programming, effective January 13.

A pair of sales VPs are being welcomed to the Los Angeles offices of Entravision Communications, with one heading up the entire sales efforts and the other focused on digital enterprises.

The Library of American Broadcasting Foundation (LABF) is welcoming four broadcast media executives to its Board of Directors, following their election to the philanthropic arm of the Library of American Broadcasting.

Beasley Media Group's local leader in charge of its radio stations in Monmouth-Ocean and the Middlesex-Union-Essex, N.J., Nielsen Audio markets is readying for retirement. This will see the departure of Dan Finn as SVP/Regional Market Manager for the publicly traded company's New Jersey radio group.

The General Sales Manager for Sinclair Inc.'s "FOX 47" in Wisconsin's state capital of Madison has been promoted to VP/GM after five years in his previous role.

Chris Bungo, an original founder of PromoSuite, which in February 2024 was acquired by  Banyan Software with the intention of merging it with vCreative, has stepped down from his Technology Consultant position.

The iHeartMedia-owned spoken word network led by President Tony Coles has appointed a new VP of News and Content, and he'll be responsible for the day-to-day leadership of the newsroom and its team of journalists, with a focus on developing news content of interest to African American audio consumers.

Audacy/New York sales associate Billy DiMaio had traveled to New Orleans to celebrate New Year’s Eve and attend the Sugar Bowl with friends. He lost his life during the early morning hours of January 1 in New Orleans in a vehicular terror attack on the tourist and entertainment center of Bourbon Street.

There's a new General Manager to start the New Year at a pair of Gray Media television stations. One is in Mississippi, while the other is in the Rocky Mountain State.

There's a new Brand Manager for the Audacy Inc. Sports Talk station serving the city affectionately known as "Charm City." He joins the company after serving in a key role for Beasley Media Group.

The new year has brought a new Managing Member to the Lerman Senter law firm. It sees a successor to a highly respected woman who joined Lerman Senter in the late 1980s and has been a Managing Member since 2017.

She joined Gray Media’s NBC affiliate in Anchorage in 1981, and since then has served as the station's Director of Marketing, Programming Director and General Sales Manager before rising to General Manager. Friday will mark the final day of her professional career, as retirement awaits come January 6.

The made-for-TV movie was a genre that helped to make Irv Wilson an integral broadcast TV executive in the 1970s. Wilson died on Thursday at the age of 93, following a short illness. His work includes an acclaimed account of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which aired on ABC some 50 years ago as a "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation.

Dana Healy and Ray Tiley will join the Cablecast Community Media leadership team on January 1, working closely with Tightrope Media Systems' co-founder and CEO to manage Cablecast’s business and technology functions as COO and CTO, respectively.

From 2016 until early in 2024 he served as President/GM of Hawai'i Public Radio, which offers distinct Fine Arts and NPR-driven spoken word audio networks across the Hawaiian Islands. Now, broadcasters across the state are mourning his loss.