Communications Personals
AT&T veteran Michael Balmoris tweets that as "the calendar approaches 2022, I will launch my public affairs/PR consultancy -- Balmoris Group" ... Mercury hires Eric Hersey, ex-House Financial Committee communications director, as a managing director, with clients likely to include tech stakeholders ... TDI appoints to board David Coco of Austin, representing the central region for a four-year term that began Aug. 1, replacing Mark Seeger, and it names Angela Rogers, a former intern, as community relations manager.
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Gray Television names general managers as it promotes others for TV stations it's buying from Meredith (see this section, Nov. 19 issue of this publication), all moves that are effective at the closing of Gray/Meredith's TV assets that's expected in December: In Cleveland area, Matt Moran runs WOIO Shaker Heights and WUAB Lorain, Ohio; for Knoxville, Tennessee, it's Pete Veto at WVLT-TV and WBNX-TV Akron, Ohio; Omaha is under Jim McKernan, WOWT; in Charleston-Huntington, West Virginia, market, David Hughes with WSAZ-TV Huntington and WQCW Portsmouth, Ohio; Peoria, Illinois, will be run by Peter Russell, WEEK-TV; and Charlottesville, Virginia, has Laura Serbon at WVIR-TV Madison.
ViacomCBS promotes KSTW Tacoma, Washington, executive Joe Freni to vice president-station manager, CBS News and Stations’ local businesses in Seattle including that TV station ... Semiconductor Industry Association elects Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon as its 2022 chair and Silicon Labs President Matt Johnson as vice chair ... Wireless ISP Association board picks new slate of officers: Todd Harpest, MetaLINK Technologies, elected chairman; Brian Young, IPpay.com, becomes vice chair; Sam Curtis, @Link Services, treasurer; and Jason Guzzo, Hudson Valley Wireless, secretary.