NBCUniversal Starts 2024 Paris Olympics Push
The 2024 Olympics may still be more than a year away, but NBCUniversal has already started their first multi-platform campaign for the Paris games. "Save the Date" aims to use the brand's full range of promotional channels to boost the event, coming next July.
Sports TV Sees Ad Boom From WGA Strike
The ongoing Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike has brought all scripted television to a standstill. With late-night shows off the table and other productions stymied and stalled, Sports has been one clear beneficiary to the shift of advertising dollars.
Another TV/Cable Exec Takes Flight To Twitter
After last month's announcement that Linda Yaccarino would be leaving NBCUniversal to become Twitter's CEO, the social media platform has nabbed another of the company's executives while more Twitter leaders jump ship in owner Elon Musk's wake.
California Assembly Votes On CJPA As Meta Fires Warning Shot
One day after Meta threatened to pull all news from Facebook and Instagram if it is signed into law, the California Assembly voted on the California Journalism Preservation Act. The CJPA would require major tech companies to pay a usage fee for local journalists' content.
Harvard Awards Honorary Doctorate To Radio Bilingüe Founder
His journey started as a nine-year-old Oaxacan immigrant who settled in Northern California. Almost a half-century after co-founding his radio network in Fresno, CA, he is now the first Mexican-Indigenous recipient of an honorary doctorate from Harvard University.
NAB To Honor Wayne Brady For Service to USA
He's been the host of daytime TV game show "Let's Make A Deal" since 2009 and has appeared on numerous other programs. On June 6, he'll be feted by the NABLF with his receipt of its Service to America Leadership Award.
An Enterprise Partnerships and Operations for NBCU
It's a newly created role, one in which a co-founder and CEO of a venture-backed membership network to educate and support executives in the ESG and DEI space will be responsible "for driving cross-functional alignment around strategy and vision for enterprise partnerships, corporate partners, and key stakeholders" across NBCUniversal Advertising & Partnerships.
NABOB Celebrates The Life of Lois Wright
The longest serving member of NABOB’s Board of Directors passed away earlier this month after battling cancer. Wright joined Inner City Broadcasting Corporation in 1980 as General Counsel and joined the NABOB Board of Directors as Counsel to the Board that same year. She was later promoted to EVP of ICBC.
MFM Announces New Board of Directors
The Media Financial Management Association Annual Conference has concluded, and with the close of the three-day event was the announcement that the EVP/Chief Accounting Officer of Warner Bros. Discovery has been elected to serve as the association's Chair of the Board for 2023-2024.
CBS Stations Selects A Producer Development VP
She got her start in local news at WCCO-4 in Minneapolis in 1999, when she produced the station’s weekday morning newscasts. After several years in New York, this local TV news veteran returned to the Twin Cities in 2017 to serve as VP/News Director of WCCO-4. Now, Kari Patey is being promoted by CBS News & Stations.
WJZ-13 Bets On Black For ND Post
A longtime news executive associated with WJZ-13, the CBS-owned station serving Baltimore, has been promoted to VP/News Director for the station and the CBS News Baltimore streaming channel it is associated with.
Ex-ENCO, Music Master Sales Pro Shane Finch Dies
In May 2022, he joined Broadcasters General Store as a Sales Director, working from Ocala, Fla. For two years before that, he was a Sales Director for ENCO, focusing on global sales and business development across all markets and product lines. Now, the radio industry is pausing to remember Shane Finch, who has unexpectedly passed away.
Why Was Eureka, Calif., Mentioned During Eurovision 2023?
There's been much chatter this week as to why the city of Eureka, Calif., got a "shout out" from the judge of the Republic of San Marino, during the first of this year's three Eurovision Song Contest telecasts. What was that all about? It all ties to the afternoon and evening news anchor for "Redwood News."
With NBCLX’s Demise, ND Heads To CBS’s DFW Duo
With NBCUniversal's decision to abandon its NBCLX multiplatform news network targeting millennials, the News Director for the operation, based in Fort Worth, Tex., had a career decision to make. It's now known that as of June 5, she'll be jumping from the studios of KXAS-5 to the CBS News and Stations properties serving the Metroplex.
Pacini The Pick For Broadcast Ops At Scripps Sports
He's been the VP/GM for The E.W. Scripps Co.'s KBZK-7 in Bozeman, Mont., and sibling KXLF-4 in Butte, Mont. Starting Monday, he'll be the first-ever VP of Broadcast Operations for the recently formed Scripps Sports unit. It's a natural move for this local leader, as he was GM of Learfield at Montana State University between 2015 and 2022.