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He's one of the best-known and most respected multicultural advertising executives in the audio content space. Now, he's been promoted to EVP of Multicultural Partnerships at Katz Media Group.

Since its debut in the mid-2000s, WYMS-FM 88.9 has emerged as one of the nation's tastemaker eclectic Adult Alternative stations, providing Milwaukee with music and programming perhaps akin to KCRW in Southern California and KEXP in Seattle. Now, noncommercial "88Nine Radio Milwaukee" has a new Executive Director.

After a lengthy search, Alpha Media's SVP and Market Manager for its stations in the Miami Valley and in the home of the National Football League Hall of Fame now have an Operations Manager.

It is a region that encompasses Alabama, Mississippi, and Memphis. Effective immediately,  iHeartMedia’s "Midsouth" area has a new Area President. It's a company veteran whose time at the company dates to 1998, and predecessor companies in the Mobile market.

In another sign that the National Association of Broadcasters wants to make NAB Show New York a suitable replacement for the now-defunct Radio Show it co-produced with the Radio Advertising Bureau, one of the most recognizable names in Radio will be receiving the 2022 NAB Distinguished Service Award — the organization's highest honor.

In another sign that the "Big Tech" companies groups such as the NAB point to as dollar-siphoning behemoths that are immune from FCC regulatory policy aren't so evil, the newly launched Google-backed Scripps Journalism Journey Initiative is continuing its launch phase by hiring a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist to lead it.

Cumulus Media has opened the doors to a new division, one devoted to Music Partnerships. It has selected a 12-year Cumulus veteran to lead it, serving as the audio content creation and distribution company's creative liaison with artists, labels, booking agencies, and promoters.

The biggest Spanish-language media and content company in the world has selected an Executive Vice President of Global Broadcast Engineering. This individual will have three bosses.

He presently serves as Area President for iHeartMedia's Alaska markets. Now, he's adding the company's stations in Honolulu to his watch.

Like Bill Livek, who in late February announced his retirement as CEO of Comscore, the company's Chief Commercial Officer arrived following a tenure at Rentrak. There, Chris Wilson oversaw sales and product development priorities, among other things. Now, Wilson is set to depart Comscore, which has put the wheels in motion on a series of executive leadership moves in the wake of his exit.

She's been with Sinclair Broadcast Group since 1998 and has risen through the programming ranks. So has her colleague, who joined Sinclair in 1994 and has also climbed up the company's programming ladder. As of today, both now hold the title of SVP/Programming for Sinclair Television Group, reporting to Programming COO Arthur Hasson.

The Byron Allen-owned Allen Media Group (AMG) has just filled a newly created role in which this individual will be called on to help AMG’s senior advertising and marketing executives to strategically work with brands for significant partnerships with the AMG portfolio — including its broadcast TV channels.

He spent 11 1/2 years at The Walt Disney Company, most recently as the Director of Content Innovation for ABC Owned Station WLS-7 in Chicago. Now, he's heading over to NBCUniversal's properties across town to lead up its multiplatform content efforts.

In the mid-1980s, he was a part of a dual-anchor team at 5pm and 6pm for Montgomery, Ala.'s CBS affiliate at the time, WCOV-20. At the end of 1985, CBS network affiliation shifted to WAKA, and so did this news anchor and reporter. Kim Wanous would remain at WAKA until 1995, when he joined crosstown WSFA-12 for a 16-year run. Now, all across central Alabama are mourning the loss of Wanous.

The Radio Show may be a thing of the past, but the NAB is making more and more steps to make its NAB Show New York more of a radio industry executive destination than ever before. The latest move designed to welcome radio leaders? The 2022 National Radio Award will be presented in Gotham to two sibling research and consulting experts.