Media Moves

TEGNA has decided who will succeed its retiring EVP and Chief Legal and Administrative Office once he departs in early 2019. It turned to an individual who has been in TEGNA’s legal department since joining the company as assistant general counsel in 2003.

Broadcast Music, Inc. on Monday re-elected six members of its Board of Directors during the music rights organization's annual shareholder meeting in Nashville. Six Board members were elected to new three-year terms.

Buzz Knight was a longtime executive at Greater Media who came on board at Beasley Media Group following its 2016 purchase of the Boston-based radio broadcasting company. He's now been upped from a top programming role to an Executive VP position at Beasley.

For the past 16 years, Kelly Bitter was a sales leader at U.S. Traffic Network (USTN). With that company's recent decision to cease radio industry operations, Bitter has accepted a new role that taps into her national radio sales experience by giving a Phoenix-based entity a bit of a strengthening on the West Coast.

A media industry veteran who spent nearly eight-years as a New York-based SVP of Programming Partnerships for iHeartMedia, where she was recruited the radio business' first Digital Program Director, has just taken an executive leadership role at audio technology firm Futuri Media.

To many, Premiere Networks President Julie Talbott is a trailblazer. The Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio (MIW) Group are now making that official.

The SVP/Market Manager for Alpha Media's stations in Louisville has just taken over a cluster of radio stations in Alabama's biggest market for the nation's No. 2 radio broadcaster by station count. His resume includes a stint as Regional Market President for iHeartMedia, overseeing properties in three Kentucky markets and in Nashville.

More than a year after being dismissed by iHeartMedia as part of a wide-ranging job reduction initiative, the company's former Market Manager and GM of heritage News/Talk WLW-AM in Cincinnati has just joined Cumulus Media. In his new role, he will oversee the company's stations in Indianapolis.

Entercom has selected a new member of the C-Suite with responsibility for the continued development, implementation and execution of the radio broadcasting company's human resources strategy.

A new CFO is set to start Sept. 10 at Hertz Global Holdings. Who is it? The person who most recently served as CFO of Nielsen. Now, Nielsen has found its new CFO, and it is going with a Honeywell veteran who has also worked for ITT.

Starting Oct. 26, a veteran of 10 Boston-area radio stations will no longer be affiliated with an AM or FM outlet in the market for the first time since 1971. After 45 years of service to the Boston radio industry, this longtime advertising sales legend presently with Beasley Broadcast Group has announced his retirement.

The Vice Chairman of Blackstone’s Private Wealth Solutions Group has agreed to deliver the opening keynote presentation concerning economic trends at Media Outlook 2019, set for the morning of September 12 in midtown Manhattan.

Cox Media Group has named Billy Farina as president of national ad platforms, effective Sept. 17. Farina will provide strategic, business, and operational direction and leadership to CMG’s national ad platforms, including CoxReps, Gamut, and Videa.

A television career spanning 48 years -- including nearly a quarter-century in St. Louis -- is drawing to a close. It's the end of an era, as Tribune Media's duopoly is saying goodbye to its "silver-haired, sharp-witted" GM.

In the Southwest Florida city of Estero, one of the big issues facing local residents is the plague of red tide that has led to the death of a wide array of sea life along the Gulf Coast. For one major publicly traded company based here, a sea change seen in the C-Suite is perhaps the bigger news of the week. A new CFO is set to start Sept. 10 at Hertz Global Holdings. Who is it? Look to Nielsen.