The Cox Media Group veteran will succeed the retiring Ray Carter at the group’s Atlanta ABC affiliate.
Ensuring the flow of local and on-brand content is only one of the challenges FAST channels present — innovation to aid in discoverability remains critical, experts advise.
Executives from Sinclair, NBCUniversal Local, Cox Media Group, Nexstar’s The Hill, Samsung and Frequency will explore the programming opportunities presented by the rise of FAST channels in the streaming ecosystem at TVNewsCheck’s Programming Everywhere event at the NAB Show in Las Vegas on April 16. Register here.
Execs Offer Disruption Survival Tips
Media companies need to manage expectations as they navigate through change. They can’t adopt the mentality that they always need to be on the leading edge of new platforms and trends, and they also need to recognize and admit to failure when it comes.
Kim Guthrie becomes CMG’s EVP of national ad platforms and succeeds the retiring Jim Monahan as president of Cox Reps. Bill Hendrich will succeed Guthrie as EVP of radio and CMG Research; and Marian Pittman, CMG’s new EVP of digital strategy, will oversee CMG’s digital strategy, content and sales.
Jane Williams becomes EVP of television, Marian Pittman is VP of news and marketing for television and Kim Guthrie is named EVP of radio.
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WSB Names Station Manager, News Director
Marian Pittman has been promoted from news director to station manager and is succeeded by Mike Dreaden at Cox’s Atlanta ABC affiliate.
