For the last five years, Gerry McGavick has led revenue-generation efforts across the company’s television platforms and served as Hearst Television’s primary liaison with the agency community, national sales representation firms and other sales partners. Since 2017, he has supervised the company’s political advertising sales.
Paperwork has been submitted to the FCC for its review and expected approval that will allow the radio station ownership group founded by the retiring Ed Levine to sell them to a company formed in the late 1980s by an automotive group head. The deal had a broker, representing Galaxy Media.
For eight years he's been a President at North Carolina-based Dick Broadcasting Co., overseeing its radio stations in markets ranging from Greenville-New Bern to Savannah, Ga. Now, he's heading to Nebraska and neighboring Iowa to head up SummitMedia's stations there for Carl Parmer.
She's well-known as the "retired" Sr. VP and General Manager of the FOX Broadcasting Stations duo serving the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose market. Now, she's returning to a role in which she will have day-to-day oversight of three broadcast properties across two Florida markets operating under the TEGNA banner.
The sports, media, and entertainment assets of a company founded with the purchase of CHFI-FM 98.1, today under the "Rogers Sports" banner, will likely see the infusion of funds from a minority investor before Canada Day 2027, parent company Rogers Communications Inc. revealed alongside its Q3 2026 earnings results.
Covering Wall Street for two decades can yield unique insight and plenty of conversation starters . ABC News Chief Business, Technology and Economics Correspondent Rebecca Jarvis has seen it all, and on November 12 in New York, she'll share what she has gleaned in an exclusive Forecast 2027 conversation.
The latest look at the top brands investing in spot television, and spot cable, has been released by RCS's Media Monitors unit. For the week ending October 25, the activity at national broadcast television was squarely focused on two key categories: Pharma, and accident attorney giant Morgan & Morgan.
The VP/General Manager of "FOX19" in Cincinnati who has been in the role since the end of 2021 has been named to a similar role at Gray Local Media sibling WBTV -3 in Charlotte, starting November 16.
A privately held media company with a dominant presence in Oklahoma is ready to expand on a fresh partnership announced in late August with the NBA team that has literally transformed a sleepy Plains metropolis into one of the most under-the-radar business and tourism destinations in the U.S.
He began his career in London in 2010 as a management consultant focused on consumer strategy at Accenture and would relocate to New York for a role at Tapad, known for its identity platform. Meet the new Sr. VP and Head of Product at Locality.
How AI agents and blockchain, along with new stablecoin regulation, are rewriting the rules of media finance, says Brendan Rovan, Director of Solution Delivery at CAI. In his role, he advises public sector and enterprise clients on automation, AI strategy, and digital transformation.
As we conclude the tenth month of 2026 next week, we review some of the comments from key financial analysts regarding the challenges broadcast media’s sales leaders have faced this year. Their commentary meshes well with Omnicom Media Intelligence that offered intelligent insights on the matter.
Some 73% of respondents in a newly released Pew-Knight Initiative study said press freedom is extremely or very important to the well-being of society. However, when asked to prioritize press freedom or accuracy, 53% said preventing inaccurate reporting is more important — even if it limits press freedom.
Holders of top-ranking Urban One bonds have said yes to a buyback of lower-ranking debt, funding new investments — or further borrowing — so long as it makes fiscal sense. It's a move disclosed in a SEC filing following the sale of real estate in Charlotte by the company run by Alfred Liggins III.
He's a two-time Fordham University alum who began his career in radio as an undergraduate at WFUV, New York's gold-focused Adult Alternative offering. Now, after stints at Clear Channel and successor operator iHeartMedia, Randy Michaels' Merlin Media, Amazon and SiriusXM, he's formally taken on the GM role.
Gray Media Chief Operating Officer Sandy Breland will serve as Television Co-Chair of Forecast 2027, which has an agenda that keeps growing by the week. Now in its 24th year, the annual broadcast and finance leadership summit will be presented on November 12 at the Harvard Club of New York.
“This Administration is running a coordinated, government-wide effort to reshape the media into its sanctioned messenger, and the Federal Communications Commission has become one of its most active instruments." That's the viewpoint expressed by Anna Gómez in a letter sent to NAB head Curtis LeGeyt. Why him?
Shreyan Daulat and BeatNews co-founder Renil Gupta have what they believe is a solution to the often-demanding task of monitoring key sources for news worthy of covering. Two major-market TV stations are already live with the product. Once Daulat and Gupta graduate college, their goal is for an industry embrace of their creation.
The 2026 NBA Western Conference Champions, led by Victor Wembanyama and Stephon Castle, have just scored a new broadcast television partnership that will bring the team's basketball games to the Sinclair Inc.-owned home of The CW Network in the Alamo City for the remainder of the 2026-2027 season.
It’s the one asset "Big Tech" can’t buy: Being known, trusted, and needed by the people next door. It has carried independent and small-market broadcasters through every wave of disruption, and today it is paired with smart digital integration. At Forecast 2027, Main Street gets its own session. The larger groups would be wise to take notes.
