The E.W. Scripps Co. has nominated senior consumer research and marketing services executive Nishat Mehta to its board of directors. Mehta was recently appointed chief operating officer and president at Lexitas, […]
The Trian Group’s Nelson Peltz has formally asked Disney shareholders to elect himself, as well as former Disney executive Jay Rasulo, to the company’s board of directors at the annual meeting this spring. The activist investor, who is allied with Ike Perlmutter, holds a war chest of about $3 billion-worth of Disney stock. Trian, in its own proxy statement today that followed Disney’s earlier this week reiterated complaints about Bob Iger’s leadership and Disney “significantly underperformed its peers and its potential.”
Nexstar Media Group on Wednesday added Tony Wells, 59, to its board of directors. He fills the open position that was created when Dennis Miller stepped down last October to […]
Nexstar Media Group today announced that at its 2023 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting June 15 shareholders voted to: Amend the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Charter”) to (i) […]
Sinclair Broadcast Group’s board of directors today voted to increase the size of the board from nine to 11 members and named Laurie R. Beyer as its newest member. She […]
Exclusives
The company today appointed Karen Grimes to its board as a new independent director and also declared a dividend of 7 cents per share, payable on April 1 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on March 6. It rejected “the four Standard General nominees to Tegna’s board.”
