Media Moves

The Development Director for River Radio Ministries' Contemporary Christian station serving Ohio's state capital has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer.

A former McKinsey & Company management consultant who later served as CFO of HD Radio developer iBiquity Digital Corp. has agreed to a two-year contract extension as Jeff Smulyan's No. 2 leader at Emmis Communications.

For the last two years, Alex Luke has served as Director of Global Programming & Content strategy for Amazon Music. Now, Luke is leaving Amazon -- and taking a plum gig at a digital media operator intent on continuing its legacy as a radio industry disruptor: Pandora.

Gray Television has reset its top local managers at its TV stations in five sub-Top 100 DMA markets.

In her new role, a Univision Communications veteran will be responsible for managing NAB’s partnerships with third-party groups on legislative and regulatory issues affecting local broadcasters. She will report to Executive Vice President of Government Relations Shawn Donilon.

She joined AccuWeather Inc. in 2019 as Assistant General Counsel. Now, the weather forecasting services company is promoting her to General Counsel. Earning the elevation is a former Associate at New York's "GS2LAW," where she served as a lead patent associate working in engineering and technology.

When Esther-Mireya Tejeda and Jen Morales each exited the company formerly known as Entercom Communications, the audio media company hit the reset button on its corporate communications and public relations efforts. Today, that company bears the name Audacy. And, it now has a three-person PR department.

In the late 1960s, morning radio in the Gateway City included the "Morning World Report," a top-of-the hour comprehensive newscast that made Otis & Company with host Ray Otis a must-listen for many in St. Louis. Delivering the news with his distinctive voice: Robert Ray Lynn. He passed away in August, and a memorial service has been planned for November 6 to publicly honor Lynn.

A former Gracenote executive is promoted from within and will lead Wazee's engineering, product, and IT functions

Since 2015, she's been serving as VP/GM of Nexstar Media Group's big NBC affiliate serving the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania: WETM-18. Now, she's being promoted, and will now take similar duties for the company's CBS affiliate in a Michigan locale -- and the Joint Operating Agreement Nexstar has for the market's home for The CW Network and for ABC.

Jim Thompson, the well-respected radio and TV broadcast industry executive and long-time President of the Broadcasters Foundation of America, will be honored posthumously with the Chairman’s Award at a breakfast reception held as the unofficial closure to the NAB Show in Las Vegas.