Media Moves

For most of her 24-year career, one top radio industry market manager has called the Mile High City home. She's been associated with a group of stations that have seen five owners since 1994. Now, after sitting on the sidelines for six months, she's moving across the street to a group of radio stations that were once her longtime competitors.

An individual with more than a decade of experience overseeing a group of radio stations serving the San Francisco Bay Area was recently displaced. As of today, he's no longer on the outside looking in. Instead, he's at a group of stations that were once formidable competitors, charged with bringing these AMs and FMs new riches and increased ratings.

The News Director of Nexstar Media Group's ABC affiliate serving New York's Capital District has just been given the expanded role of Director/Local Content Development. In this new role, he will be responsible "for overseeing the execution and expansion of the company’s strategic local content and viewer engagement initiatives across its broadcast and digital media operations."

Does an owner of TV stations, a regional news network and two multicast networks need a Digital Product Management and Design team? The answer is "yes" for NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations.

Four years after exiting TVB for the top strategy and analytics role at the national media rep firm, Stacey Schulman has ascended to the CMO position. She began her career nearly 30 years ago at Katz — Katz Television, that is.

USTN continues to distance itself from its recent financial troubles under its previous Australian owner by selecting a COO. It's an individual who has had previous leadership roles at Westwood One and at Shadow Broadcast Services/Metro Networks.

Two Hispanic media veterans have been appointed to key roles at the NBCUniversal-owned Telemundo station serving Central Florida. One will serve as President/GM, while the other takes the role of VP/News. The Orlando station is an important O&O, given the influx of Puerto Ricans across the region.

The former GSM of Cumulus Media's four-station Buffalo-Niagara Falls, N.Y. cluster has been appointed VP/Market Manager by the company that seeks to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the next six weeks.

The head of Salem Media Group's five radio stations in the Mile High City has just transferred to the company's stations in the capital of the Buckeye State. She is familiar with both Denver and Columbus, thanks to her work at her prior employer, Wilks Broadcasting.

Scott Porretti is taking a newly created position that adds operational oversight of this major national ad rep firm's digital video sales operations to his management of digital audio sales across the U.S. He's been associated with this rep firm since 1999.

An individual who was named by Streamline Publishing's Radio Ink as General Manager of the Year in 2014, 2015 and 2016 has just joined Salem Media Group. What he'll be doing is a bit of a secret.

The NAB Education Foundation (NABEF) has elected six new members to its board of directors. They include leaders from Graham Media Group, Cox Media Group, Sinclair Broadcasting Group, NBCUniversal, Univision Communications, and an owner of radio stations in Oklahoma, Georgia, and South Carolina.

The Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Foundation will be saluting four individuals who have actively served the broadcast industry in the state by inducting them into the WBA Hall of Fame. This year's class includes a top executive at one of the nation's biggest broadcast TV companies, an owner of locally focused radio stations, an EAS champion who was an engineer for Journal Communications' flagship stations, and an innovative training specialist who has influenced hundreds of sales executives across the Midwest.

In July 2014, Univision Radio made waves across La Gran Manzana by dropping the Luis Jimenez Show from its WXNY-FM "X96.3" in New York. Jimenez's show had been syndicated by Univision Radio, a move that transpired after his highly publicized exit from Spanish Broadcasting System. He had been on X96.3 since its 2009 debut. On March 13, 2017, Jimenez returned to WXNY. That arrangement abruptly ended 11 days ago. On Monday, X96.3 is moving forward with its former midday host in wakeups — and a big new 10am-3pm offering.

The man who has served as SVP/Sales for iHeartMedia's Washington, D.C. stations is heading up I-95 to take the company's top job in Charm City. Effective immediately, a 19-year media veteran who began his career with Clear Channel in New York's Capitaland region is now Market President of iHeartMedia's Baltimore station group.