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Christa Robinson and Lance Frank will take on expanded roles for CBS‘ division built around CBS News, local stations and syndicated programming, all put under the aegis of executive Wendy McMahon in August of last year. Frank, who has been with CBS News since 2011, has been elevated to EVP, communications for CBS News & Stations and CBS Media Ventures, a new position. Robinson, an industry veteran who has led communications for CNN Worldwide and Tribune Media, will continue as EVP, leading CBS News and Stations with an expanded role in the stations business.
Shari Redstone’s investment banker, Byron David Trott, has pulled some unusual moves as he explores a possible sale of her Paramount media empire — and it’s adding to the gossip surrounding the closely watched deal talks.
Ron DeSantis wishes he could have a do-over with the media. In an interview Thursday with radio host Hugh Hewitt, the Florida governor expressed regret over how his presidential campaign had initially shunned most news outlets in favor of friendly, conservative platforms.
The veteran commercial and business development exec and Vizrt’s former chief revenue officer will move to ramp up adoption of the global video-over-IP connectivity standard.
The sports TV veteran will will be the point of contact for Scripps’ local stations with Scripps Sports assets and serve as sales lead for the Vegas Golden Knights (NHL), Phoenix Coyotes (NHL) and Big Sky Conference (NCAA Division 1), as well as for new deals.
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.”
The Hill Sunday with Chris Stirewalt is launching Sunday, March 3, at 10 a.m. ET.
She joins from Great American Media and will oversee the Nexstar network’s distribution as well as affiliate relations with station groups.
Scripps promotes her from senior director of sales to help with day-to-day operations and lead sales at the California NBC affiliate.
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) — Ruth Ashton Taylor, a trailblazing journalist who was the first female newscaster to work in television on the West Coast, has died. She was 101. […]
The veteran stage and television actress played the savvy Trixie Norton on The Honeymooners, providing the perfect foil to her dimwitted TV husband, sewer worked Ed Norton. She was the last surviving main character of the beloved comedy from television’s golden age of the 1950s. Pictured: Randolph in 1990 (Richard Drew/AP)
He spent nearly 40 years writing for The Washington Post and was known for his incisive and barbed commentary.
Sandra Bookman, who has been a weekend anchor at ABC’s WABC New York for more than two decades, moves to Eyewitness News At Noon where she’ll anchor weekdays with David Novarro. […]
The dismissal of a beloved editor and Pulitzer-winning journalist raises questions about the future of the well-funded Houston Landing, and nonprofit news in general.
Gray Television moves up The NBC, BC and CW stations’ former general sales manager.
