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Which one should investors consider? Zacks Equity Research has an answer.
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Curtis LeGeyt is now president and chief executive officer of the National Association of Broadcasters, succeeding Gordon Smith.
The transition had been announced last year. Smith moves into an advisory and advocacy role.
One of the first changes under LeGeyt is the creation of an NAB chief of staff. Michelle Lehman will hold that job while retaining her role as EVP of the Public Affairs department. Lesley Peña is promoted to deputy chief of staff; she was LeGeyt’s executive assistant when he was COO.
Michelle Lehman“Lehman will serve as an advisor to LeGeyt and assist him in implementing his vision for the organization, guiding cross-departmental initiatives and focusing on NAB’s strategic priorities,” the organization stated. “Peña will serve as an advisor to LeGeyt and Lehman and will work with NAB departments to ensure the association’s operational priorities are met.”
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Leslie PeñaThe association said its senior leadership team under LeGeyt will consist of Chris Brown, executive vice president and managing director, Global Connections and Events; April Carty-Sipp, executive vice president, Industry Affairs; Shawn Donilon, executive vice president, Government Relations; Michelle Duke, chief diversity officer and president, NAB Leadership Foundation; Téa Gennaro, chief financial officer and executive vice president, Finance and Administration; Rick Kaplan, chief legal officer and executive vice president, Legal and Regulatory Affairs; Sue Keenom, senior vice president, State, International and Board Relations; Michelle Lehman, executive vice president, Public Affairs; and Sam Matheny, chief technology officer and executive vice president, Technology.
Karen Wright will continue serving as executive assistant to the president and CEO.
NAB Joint Board of Directors Chairman David Santrella, CEO of Salem Media Group, thanked Smith “for his many years of service as an influential advocate for our industry.” He welcomed LeGeyt as “a proven leader and skilled fighter on behalf of broadcasters.”
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He’s been in radio industry sales and sales management, both nationally and locally, for more than 25 years.
“To take this accrued experience and apply it in today’s highly competitive ad market is personally rewarding,” says the newly appointed VP and Director of Sales at Houston-based research firm The Media Audit.
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The President/CEO of the largest advocacy voice in Washington for the broadcast media industry is no longer the former U.S. Senator from Oregon. As of today, Curtis LeGeyt (pronounced “legit”) is now the head of the NAB.
And, with LeGeyt in charge, the association now has its first Chief of Staff. It’s the NAB’s EVP of Public Affairs, who is adding additional responsibilities.
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The Alabama Broadcasters Association won’t hold their annual conference this month after all.
The event was planned for Jan. 21–22. The association is celebrating its 75th anniversary.
“With the Covid Omicron variant spreading like wildfire across our state and already having an impact on many of your stations, we believe it is in everyone’s best interest that we not gather in large numbers just yet,” wrote ABA President Sharon Tinsley in an email.
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“We will begin contacting our speakers immediately to arrange to provide the content we had planned in a virtual setting over the next six weeks. Please watch for upcoming announcements about a schedule of news, engineering, sales and management topics to be offered via webinar or Zoom.”
People who paid for registration will receive a refund and will not be charged for any hotel nights. ABA will present its awards virtually this month.
Sam Matheny, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at the National Association of Broadcasters, was to have been the keynoter of the Friday engineering sessions.
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On Saturday, the organizers of CES 2022, in a nod to the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus, decided that closing the event in Las Vegas one day early would be a prudent plan of action — even as more than 200 of the world’s biggest electronics brands pulled out of live in-person events at the conference.
In contrast, a state broadcasters’ association is taking no chances in ensuring the safety and health of their members by canceling its annual affair, scheduled for later this month.
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The third generation is ready to play a larger role at family-run Kintronic Labs.
The firm started to take shape in 1949 when Louis King left the Radio Corporation of America to pursue his own business in RF, and took its current name in 1962.
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Joshua King began work with Kintronics in 2018 as a project engineer and was named a vice president in 2019. Earlier he was a project engineer for systems integrator Affinity Energy. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Clemson University.
According to a bio on the company website, “Joshua is excited to be involved in RF (‘really fun’) engineering and looks forward to finding Kintronic Lab’s niche in future technologies like 5G and IoT, while building on the traditions of quality work and great customer service.”
Tom King has led the company since 1983 and is considered one of the industry’s leading experts on AM radio transmission technology. He received the Radio Engineering Achievement Award from the National Association of Broadcasters in 2015 (read our profile). Louis A. King received the same award in 2007 (read our profile).
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With the shift of TV audiences to advertising-free video platforms, local advertisers are turning to audio — not simply radio — to build their brands and drive sales.
How can a CMO and brand manager help build a successful local audio plan? Pierre Bouvard, the Chief Insights Officer at Cumulus Media and its Westwood One arm, offers up five strategies he believes will yield success.
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In 2017, she became the News Director for Gray Television’s NBC affiliate serving the Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa. Now, a promotion has been given to Stephanie Hedrick.
She’s now the GM of a Gray-owned NBC affiliate not too far to the north.
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As 2021 came to a close, KRRiT, the Polish broadcasting regulator, announced plans to tender licenses for a nationwide DAB+ multiplex. The multiplex would support a dozen channels.
According to the KRRiT’s announcement, three of the channels will be reserved for public service broadcaster Polskie Radio’s national channels; three will be for nationwide extension of existing program services; and the remaining six will be for new or extended “broadcasting licenses of a universal or specialized nature.” The announcement was made in Polish on Dec. 29.
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According to wirtualnemedia.pl, the licenses for three existing services are expected to go to private broadcasters RMF FM and Radio Zet, as well as to the religious station Radio Maryja. All three stations currently are heard nationwide on FM. The six other slots could go to other regional or local broadcasters, or to new players in the industry.
Polskie Radio currently operates DAB+ multiplexes reaching about 67 percent of the nation’s population, although it aims to expand this to 80 percent of the population in early 2022. The three slots on the new national multiplex could expand the reach of existing Polskie Radio programs or could be used for new services, according to wirtualnemedia.pl.
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