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There is a new Region President for iHeartMedia Houston, and it is a Louisiana native who has been associated with the nation's biggest owner of radio stations since 2000.

He was associated with Fox News Channel from November 1998 through August 2010 and later spent 8 1/2 years at CBS News. Now, this veteran broadcast and digital news operations executive is settling in to his role as VP/News Operations at the Chris Ruddy-run Newsmax.

Just south of the Red River separating Texas from Oklahoma and casino resorts over the border, Gray Media has selected a General Manager and Director of Sales for the CBS and FOX affiliates that serve these fast-growing communities due north of Dallas-Fort Worth.

The Hispanic-focused broadcast media company with a global ad tech arm has appointed a VP/GM for its mobile advertising and connected TV technology platform, Smadex.

He's been with the station since 1987, when Gaylord Broadcasting sold it to Gillett and some six years prior to its affiliation switch from CBS to FOX, at which time it became a foundational O&O property today within Fox Television Stations. Now, this individual, today in the role of VP/News Director, is planning to retire from "FOX 13 Tampa Bay."

The Senior VP of Streaming Sales at Fox Television Stations is welcoming an individual who has joined the team by taking the Vice President of Streaming Sales role. He'll also be taking a key position designed to boost OTT platform ad revenue for the FOX unit.

The individual who serves as Area President for 10 iHeartMedia radio stations across the Constitution State is calling it quits, as the company has announced he will retire at the end of 2024, concluding a nearly 40-year career in broadcasting.

He currently anchors the afternoon and nighttime newscasts for TEGNA-owned WVEC-13, the ABC affiliate serving the Tidewater region of Virginia. Soon, he'll be joining the company's NBC affiliate in Atlanta to helm its weekend morning newscasts.

The Morgan Murphy Media subsidiary that owns and operates six radio stations in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and TV stations in Marquette and Alpena, Mich., has promoted from within to fill the role of Digital of Digital Sales for the Mitten State.

It has been one year since SiriusXM launched a channel curated and hosted by singer-songwriter John Mayer, and it has proven to be a smash hit with subscribers. Now, Mayer is launching an interview series featuring "intimate and extensive" conversations between the musician and some of his more notable peers.

Starting December 2, the ABC and CW affiliates serving Western Tennessee will have a new News Director. And it is a news veteran who was previously Managing Director of "CNTV" in Central Florida.

The Program Director and afternoon host on "Eagle 98.1" in Baton Rouge has earned a promotion. Introducing the new Operations Manager for Guaranty Media's group of radio stations in the Louisiana state capital of Baton Rouge.

It's been a topic of discussion in industry circles over the last several years. Now, it is official: One of NBCUniversal Local's most prominent news anchors, a fixture of live over-the-air television in the New York Tri-State area since 1974, will officially retire following the 6pm newscast on WNBC-4 in three weeks.

Mike Agovino is joining a fellow radio industry veteran — San Diego's Mike Glickenhaus — in growing partnership development at a company launching an omnichannel media commerce platform that connects supply-side and demand-side partners through an open marketplace.

He joined Cumulus Media seven years ago to serve as VP/Market Manager of its Chicago radio stations. Now he is tacking on similar duties in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region amid a reduction-in-force initiative at the publicly traded company that has seen an 85% dip in its stock price over the last year.