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When the iconic Jorge Rámos exits TelevisaUnivision at the end of 2024, Noticiero Univision will be embarking on a new era by going with a sole anchor for the first time. And, the job is going to a woman.

The new Digital and Multimedia Sales VP at the Hispanic radio ad rep firm founded by José Villafañe joins from Mirror Digital, where she served as Director of Brand Partnerships, bolstering their presence among key agencies. She previously served as an Account Executive at Nielsen for their largest partner, Disney.

The New York Festivals TV & Film Grand Jury is recruited from leading networks, production companies, and creative studios worldwide, all dedicated to excellence in storytelling across news, entertainment, sports, and corporate image content. Top-tier companies include The Walt Disney Company, ESPN, Telemundo, and the National Football League.

The 2025 Radio Awards Grand Jury features over 100 global leaders from the radio industry across six continents. Eight are from the U.S., with an iHeartMedia producer and SiriusXM's VP of Music Programming in the mix.

The Minister of Canadian Heritage, which oversee the nation's public broadcasting giant known as the CBC, has appointed the President/CEO of TV 5 Québec as the next head of CBC/Radio-Canada. She will serve a five-year term.

In March, Joyce Slocum died after a long illness, leaving Texas Public Radio with a leadership void. Now, San Antonio-based TPR has announced who its next President/CEO will be. Getting the role is the VP of Community Engagement and Strategic Initiatives at KPCC-FM, which broadcasts as "LAist" to Southern California.

She's known across the New York Tri-State area's broadcast journalism community for her more than 16 years of experience at WCBS-2. Now, she has been asked to lead and manage the Creative Services team at crosstown WNBC-4.

He's a Sinclair Broadcast Group executive known for the success of the  syndicated pro wrestling program "Ring of Honor." There was also a role as Director of Sales at WFLX-29 in West Palm Beach under then-owner Malrite Communications. Joe Koff is remembered for having a "great career," says one broadcast TV ownership group head. Koff has died of cancer at the age of 73.

A leadership training fellowship for public media station managers is being developed by St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Poynter Institute is developing and administering. It is being funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It’s an executive level program following the success of the Editorial Integrity and Leadership program.

If you're a Charlotte radio listener, or perhaps were once one, you're likely familiar with Paul Schadt. He's been in the market since the early 1980s, and since 1997 at WKKT "96.9 The Kat," the Country radio station owned by iHeartMedia. Come February 2025, Schadt will be hanging up the headphones. But, he will be an active retiree.

It's been an interesting seven months for Entravision Communications, which in March disclosed that Meta's wind-down of its Authorized Sales Partner (ASP) would likely reduce the company’s EBITDA and revenue in a significant way. CEO Michael Christenson has now confirmed a change that impacts the C-Suite role of Chief Revenue Officer.

Andrea Mitchell, the journalist who holds the title of Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and Chief Washington Correspondent will be honored with the Gracies Icon Award at the 2024 Gracies Leadership Awards scheduled for November 19 in the City of New York.

Some sixty years ago, he conceived and executed a plan to build unaffiliated broadcast television stations in seven of the top 10 U.S. markets. He would later serve as EVP of the TV station division of Metromedia — the foundation of what is today FOX Television Stations. Now, many in broadcast media are paying tribute to Dick Block, who died on September 30.

In April, he departed as Region Senior VP of Sales for iHeartMedia's Washington, D.C., station group, concluding a nearly 6 1/2 year run there. Now, he's resurfaced as Director of Sales for the West Palm Beach-Boca Raton radio market's biggest group of AMs and FMs. 

The station had been on the air for one year, and when he walked into the studios for the first time on that February 1948 day, he said, "This is for me. This is what I want to do." Thus began a more than 60-year career at KSDK-5 in St. Louis. Now, the television industry is pausing to pay tribute to Ray Hoffstetter, who has passed away at the age of 98.