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Bonneville International has named a veteran radio executive to lead its Denver stations. She'll succeed Bob Call, who recently retired after more than 50 years in the radio industry.

The parent company of the popular and omnipresent Christian Contemporary Music (CCM) noncommercial radio networks K-LOVE and Air1 has selected a new Chief Legal Officer. He's inbound from Nissan North America, where he served as VP/General Counsel and Secretary.

The elections took place Tuesday at the Board of Directors meeting in New York City. “We’re delighted to announce these esteemed individuals ... as members of our Board,” said Scott Herman, Chairman of the Broadcasters Foundation of America.

A general partner with a venture capital franchise focused on companies active in video game studios, NFTs, social platforms and financial marketplaces has taken a seat on the Board of Directors for the nation's largest creator and distributor of audio content.

He was a finalist for Radio Ink Market Manager of the Year in both 2019 and 2020 in recognition of time at the helm of iHeartMedia's Poughkeepsie, N.Y. radio stations. Since 2018, he's been running the company's Indianapolis stations as a Market President. Now, he's taken I-70 east to I-75 and traveled a couple of hours to Ohio's Gem City.

Live broadcast technology company Mobile TV Group (MTVG) is welcoming its first-ever VP of Technology. It's a move the company founded in 1993 in Denver is heralding as part of its overall growth and desire to increase its TV industry business.

Seven years after saying goodbye to leading a local broadcast television operation, Becky Butcher is back in the building. This time, however, she's taking on a bigger role in overseeing not only the NBC and CW Network affiliates she ran for 17 years but also the FOX affiliate serving three mid-Michigan cities.

He's a past-president of the Arkansas Broadcasters Association and was presented with the Association’s Silver Mic Award in 2000. He also previously served as a former board chairman of NAB’s Small-Medium Market Radio Committee and completed NAB’s Executive Development Program for Radio.

An advanced advertising company focused on "audience-based campaigns" in television has promoted three new members to its executive team. The leadership elevation of the trio of OpenAP leaders comes at a time of "significant growth" for the operation, which recently saw Discovery Inc. become a minority owner.

She's fondly remembered for her 12 years at Interep, her 17 years as Publisher of now-defunct industry trade Radio & Records and as a 25-year-old General Manager of WXLO "99x" in New York for RKO General in the late 1970s. Today, Erica Farber is President/CEO of the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB), and it's a role she'll be keeping for a couple of more years.

As RBR+TVBR first reported in December 2021, Craig Karmazin-led Good Karma Brands agreed to pay $15 million to The Walt Disney Company for WEPN-AM in New York, KSPN-AM in L.A., and WMVP-AM in Chicago. GKB is also acquiring Disney's LMA agreement with Emmis that has allowed WEPN to simulcast on 98.7 MHz in N.Y. Now, GKB has revealed who will lead the Gotham and SoCal properties.

The application window is now open for the next class of MIW Mildred Carter Mentees. Beasley Media Group and Entravision are sponsoring this year’s MIW Mildred Carter mentoring program.

Since 2015, he has held the role of Market Manager for Cumulus Media's radio stations serving Little Rock. As of today, he is now Regional VP of all of the company's Arkansas properties.

Two new members of the Ads and Partnership Communication team are being welcomed at NBCUniversal. One of the new hires is the former Head of Corporate Communications at Comscore, while the other is an ex-Senior Associate for Corporate Communications at Univision.

She's served as the Senior Affiliate Sales Director for the Networks Division since September 2019. Now, this individual, who played a key role in the launch of digital multicast networks Antenna TV and Rewind TV for Nexstar Media Group, is being promoted to VP/GM under Networks Division President Sean Compton.