Media Moves

The Executive News Director for the TEGNA-owned ABC affiliate serving the Tidewater region of Virginia has been promoted to President/GM. He's been at WVEC-TV since 2003, when he joined as a senior producer for the evening newscasts.

The VP and Executive Producer of Original Content at ESPN+ is the newest member of the New York Festivals' TV & Film Awards Advisory Board.

The Radio Television Digital News Association has turned to its Chair-Elect, Region 13 Director and Ethics Committee Chair to serve as Chair of its board of directors. Professionally, this individual is the News Director of South Florida's NPR Member Station, WLRN-FM in Miami.

The Broadcasters Foundation of America has revealed the recipient of its 2020 Golden Mike Award. It's the President/CEO of the television broadcasting company formerly known as Gannett.

A 23-year Katz Television Group veteran who has worked in several different roles, including those of SVP/Director of Sales, Sales Manager and AE has been selected as its next EVP/Director of Sales for the Midwest region.

Since August 2016, Yesenia Bello has been the U.S Multicultural Sales Lead for one of the world's biggest digital media companies. For many in media, she's also remembered for her many years at Telemundo. Now, she's taking a key multicultural sales role focused on African American and Hispanic programming at the No. 1 owner of radio stations in the U.S.

The President of HBO Domestic Television from 2002-2009 has been named EVP of Global Media and Entertainment at the television industry research consultancy. He takes the job after a decade overseeing a consultancy in which he advised the Chairman/CEO of TEGNA.

African American-focused multimedia company Urban One has selected a new SVP/General Counsel and, at the same time, a new Chief Information Officer.

The media and marketing company superserving U.S. millennial women through its multimedia lifestyle brands that owns through its Local Media arm some 17 broadcast TV stations has hired a Goop alum as its new Chief Strategy Officer.

Univision Communications has hired the former president of a television sales consultancy and a former Dayton, Ohio TV executive to lead its TV, radio, digital and social media properties — including advertising sales, marketing, news and production — in Houston.

He's been an owner of TV stations in Mississippi and the Director of Media Operations for a MVPD in northwest Ohio. He also served as a VP/GM of Nexstar's WROC-8 in Rochester, N.Y. Now, this individual is replacing Steve Nurse at Scripps' WKBW-7 in Buffalo, a one-time home for this industry veteran.

Comcast has a new leader in charge of its business across the state of Washington, where the owner of NBCUniversal and the provider of Xfinity MVPD services has more than 1.6 million residential and business customers and employs more than 4,500 individuals.

The assistant marketing manager at Envision Networks, which provides content and services to more than 2,500 radio stations, has been promoted to Affiliate Relations Manager. Taking her former role is a marketing intern who is now formally joining the company.

The ANA, through efforts led by its Alliance for Inclusive and Multicultural Marketing and fueled by the new Cultural Insights Impact Measure, has been very forthcoming on diversity and inclusion initiatives that can make a client fully understand its consumers. Now, a media company is following suit.

SiriusXM's new Chief Marketing Officer is being lured from TD Ameritrade, where she was CMO overseeing brand, advertising, social media, content marketing, corporate communications, marketing analytics, tech and operations.