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AdLarge Names Robin Sloan as Executive VP Audio Sales

Robin Sloan

AdLarge names Robin Sloan as Executive Vice President of Audio Sales. Most recently, she was the Director of National Partnerships at Westwood One. Sloan's sales and management experience began at CBS where she worked on the National Sales team. She served as the General Sales Manager at WCBS-AM before More

RAB Completes 14th Annual Management & Training Program

Radio Advertising Bureau

The Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB), in conjunction with BMI and Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio (MIW), have announced the completion of the 14th annual Rising Through the Ranks program, which began with a virtual session on August 2, and continued with in-person meetings on August 9-11 at the BMI More

Maria Thrasher Joins Hearst Media Production Group

Maria Thrasher

Media sales and marketing veteran Maria Thrasher joins Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG) as a business partnerships and development executive. Previously, Thrasher ran her own Charlotte, NC-based consultancy. Before that, she was senior integrated marketing director for Radio One, expanding the group's More

Radio Hall of Fame Announces 2022 Inductees

Radio Hall of Fame

The Museum of Broadcast Communications announced today the selection of nine new inductees into the Radio Hall of Fame for 2022. The 2022 Radio Hall of Fame inductees will be honored at the in-person 2022 Radio Hall of Fame Induction ceremony on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, at More

40-year Veteran Programmer Steve Smith Dies Unexpectedly

Steve Smith

Sad to report that 40-year veteran programmer Steve Smith died unexpectedly in his sleep on July 7. He was 62. Smith, the long serving VP/Programming for Cox Media Group, joined CMG in 2011 as Director of Radio Programming for all of CMG's 85 radio outlets nationwide. In April, Smith, Tim Richards and Heidi More

Reising Radio Partners Names Fritz Moser as VP/GM

Fritz Moser

Reising Radio Partners appoints Fritz Moser to the newly created post of VP/General Manager. He's been with the company since 2018, and most recently served as Program Director of Country WYGB (Korn Country 100.3), Classic Hits WXCH (Mojo 102-9) and Classic Country WJCP-AM/Columbus, IN. Previously, he served More

Urban One Agrees to Acquire Emmis Indianapolis Stations

Urban One

Urban One has signed a definitive asset purchase agreement with Emmis Communications to purchase its cluster of radio stations in Indianapolis. Under the deal, Urban One will acquire WYXB-FM (B105.7), WLHK-FM (97.1), WIBC-FM (93.1), translators W228CX and W298BB (The Fan 93.5 and More

Kyle Guderian Adds WRBR-FM/South Bend PD Duties

Kyle Guderian

Kyle Guderian assumes the role of Program Director at Rock WRBR-FM (103.9 the Bear)/South Bend, in addition to his programming role at co-owned Rock WBYR (98.9 The Bear) and Classic Hits WFWI (Big 92.3)/Fort Wayne, effective June 14. He joined Federated Media in 2019 after spending over 15 years with Emmis More

BIA SVP/Chief Economist Mark Fratrik to Retire on June 30

Mark Fratrik

Mark Fratrik, Ph.D., BIA Advisory Services Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, will retire from the company, effective June 30. He'll continue as a strategic advisor and analyst offering continuity for the firm's forecasting, insights and analytics services that will now be led by Vice President of More

BIA Expands Forecasting and Consulting Services

Nicole Ovadia

BIA Advisory Services has added three key personnel to its forecasting and consulting divisions. Nicole Ovadia (pictured) joins as Vice President of Forecasting and Analysis to focus on enhancing BIA's U.S. local media advertising forecast models. Ovadia comes to BIA from the New York State Broadcasters More

Steve Smith and Tim Richards Launch Consulting Group

Smith Richards Collective

Veteran radio senior execs Steve Smith and Tim Richards and digital marketing strategist Heidi McIvor-Allen have joined forces to launch a new radio consulting group, the Smith Richards Collective. The Smith Richards Collective brings radio operations, programming and digital More

Kagan Offers Broadcast Deal Market Recap for Q4 2021

S & P Market Intelligence

According to Kagan, the media research unit of S&P Global Market Intelligence, in the absence of hundred-million-dollar deals, Q4's TV deal volume of $105.5 million stands for only 2.3% of 2021's total TV deal volume, but radio's $102.7 million represent 54.2% of the year's radio deal volume. Three of More

NABLF Opens Application Window for 2023 BLT Program

The NAB Leadership Foundation

The NAB Leadership Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2023 Broadcast Leadership Training (BLT) program through May 31. The BLT program is designed to prepare senior-level broadcast executives to advance as group executives or station owners. Women and people of color More

Report: Broadcast Deal Market Near Lows for 2021

SandP Market Intelligence

While broadcast station advertising revenue has rebounded from its double-digit lows in the midst of economic shutdowns in 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, the deal market has still been near historical lows, reports S&P Market Intelligence. However, year-end numbers for 2021 are More

PromoSuite Adds Smith, Englebrecht to Management Team

Andrew Smith

PromoSuite promotes Andrew Smith (pictured) to the newly created position of Director, Product Integrity where he will serve as the liaison between sales, client services and the product development teams. Additionally, Michael Englebrecht is elevated to Director, Client Services & Business Process More

iHM/St. Louis Names Dalena Pajares Vice President of Sales

Dalena Pajares

iHeartMedia/St. Louis appoints Dalena Pajares as Vice President of Sales, effective immediately. Pajares joins the St. Louis cluster from The Center for Sales Strategy, where she most recently served as an Account Executive. She also served as a Senior Account Executive for Hubbard Broadcasting, Emmis More

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