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ABC News names three ops positions
ABC News President David Westin announced three new operations positions: Todd Donovan has joined the Network as vice president, News Technology, Chris Myers has been ...CFO for O&Os
Rick Baran joins CBS May 19th as Executive Vice President and CFO, CBS Television Stations. Baran spent the past five-and-a-half years with Tyco International, most ...NBCU Domestic Television ups Bruce Casino
Bruce Casino has been named SVP/Cable and Ancillary Sales at NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution. Casino, who is based in New York City, will continue ...Randy moves up
Randy Michaels has gotten a promotion to COO at Tribune Company, putting him in charge of everything, whereas he had previously been CEO of Interactive ...Splitting responsibilities
Emilio Nicholas Jr. has joined CaribeVision in the newly created position of President and CEO of Advertising. He will oversee all national and local ad ...Two new COOs
Nexstar is promoting Timothy Busch and Brian Jones to Co-Chief Operating Officer, effective June 1st. They will succeed COO Duane Lammers, who is leaving the ...Upped at Telemundo
Telemundo Communications Group has promoted Eli Velazquez from Director to Vice President, Sports, Telemundo. In his new role, Velazquez will oversee all sports related programming ...Bird has Vision
New Vision Television has hired David Bird as Corporate Chief Engineer, working out of KOIN-TV Portland. He was previously Regional Chief Engineer for Clear Channel ...Beach bound
When Steve Wasserman stepped down as VP/GM of Post-Newsweek’s WDIV-TV (Ch. 4, NBC) Detroit in January (1/8/08 TVBR #4) he said he wanted to return ...New SVP/GM
Luis Roldan has joined Spanish Broadcasting System Senior Vice President and General Manager of Mega TV in Puerto Rico, overseeing the retransmission of Mega TV ...Upped at Univision
Univision Communications announced the appointment of Antonio Roman to the position of Vice President of Network Sales in Miami. He will oversee all sales operations ...Bravo strategist
Jerry Leo has been named to the newly-created position of Senior Vice President, Program Strategy and Acquisitions, Bravo, an NBC Universal cable network. He had ...Nielsen grabs AOL exec
The Nielsen Company announced that John Burbank has been appointed to the newly created position of Chief Marketing Officer, effective May 9th. Burbank, who is ...Play ball!
Tony Petitti is leaving CBS Sports to join Major League Baseball as President and CEO of the MLB Network, set to launch on January 1, ...Return engagement
Allison Taylor is returning to Sinclair’s WMMP-TV (Ch. 36, MyNetworkTV) Charleston, SC and LMA partner WTAT-TV (Ch. 24, Fox). This time she will be General ...Log in
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Nice job, I commend you on the points you make in your post. The Acculturation process is very complex and truly require an expertise to ...
Paul- you are awesome! I am so glad to see you again!
As always, John Gorman tells it like it is, whether we want to hear it or not. How sadly ironic that radio's success has been ...
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Does anyone else want to weigh in supporting this move? Do the sweeps really matter that much these days?
Jack Messmer
Executive Editor
RBR/TVBR
Am I the only one bothered by Nielsen's move from February 2009 Sweep to March 2009?
The announcement from Nielsen came as a surprise. ...

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