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Carol Burnett, a legendary figure in entertainment, will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 49th Annual Gracie Awards Gala on May 21 at the Beverly Wilshire in Los Angeles. The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation (AWMF) made the announcement on Tuesday.

With the NAB Show in full swing, ZTransform is on the convention flow showing off its broadcast studio build-out capabilities. And, it is welcoming a new SVP of Solutions and Development to help grow its business.

It was another high-profile radio affair at the Capitol Grille in Las Vegas for the third annual "Cocktails and Conversation" event during this year's NAB Show. This year's assembly again united radio professionals, ranging from C-suite executives to individual station managers.

The veteran network radio sales executive will lead Key Networks’ ad sales team and work directly with Key Networks clients, including Bloomberg Radio.

The honors recognize outstanding service to their communities by local television and radio stations. Winners will be honored at the awards ceremony on June 4 at The Anthem in Washington, D.C.

Getting the role is a marketing consultancy head advising media companies, agencies and tech start-ups on strategy and business development. Before launching his own shop, he was widely known as SVP/Marketing for Disney Channel, and had been at The Walt Disney Company for some 15 years.

The Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio Inc. non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of female leadership in radio broadcasting has a President-Elect, and she will begin her term on January 1, 2025.

She's described as "an experienced journalist and award-winning producer" and is coming from CNN. Introducing the new Executive Producer of CBS News Confirmed.

In one week, the Alliance for Women in Media will again host a breakfast during the NAB Show. This year, it will feature a panel discussion on "The Business of Multiplatform Sports," and among those appearing are a Beasley Media Group Market Manager, Skyview Networks' Chief Revenue Officer, two Audacy leaders and the co-CEO/President of Gray Television.

Gray Television has given a multimedia journalist who joined its Washington, D.C., bureau in June 2015 a promotion, naming him Senior National Correspondent for the bureau. However, he'll be based in New York.

Two years after a historic combination of resources, the parent organization of WBEZ-FM, the NPR Member station serving Chicago, and the Chicago Sun-Times is moving forward with a reduction-in-force initiative across both its daily print and digital operation and its audio content service.

The two biggest noncommercial radio stations serving the Lone Star State's capital has been upped to a role in which he will a strategic advisor to the general manager and oversee the station’s membership, development, marketing and community engagement teams. 

After 27 years, the lead meteorologist for the FOX affiliate owned by Gray Television serving Alabama's biggest city will soon retire. He's worked in television since 1976, and has been at his current station since 1997.

A Jackson, Miss. native, whose career began in 2002 at Jackson State University’s WJSU Radio has been named Director of Radio for Mississippi Public Broadcasting. Concurrently, MPB promoted Taiwo Gaynor to the group’s Director of Television.

Since February 2019, he has been a familiar voice on quarterly earnings calls for such publicly traded radio industry companies as Audacy Inc., and was a panelist at Forecast 2023. Now, Dan Day is moving on from B. Riley.