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Fox News Elevates Trey Gargano, Ryan Roelle to Sales Executive Roles

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Fox News Elevates Trey Gargano, Ryan Roelle to Sales Executive Roles

After the elevation of Jeff Collins to President of Ad Sales, Marketing, and Brand Partnerships for FOX Corp., Fox News has promoted a pair of internal candidates to fill the vacated role.

In a Thursday press release, the network announced Trey Gargano has been elevated to Executive Vice President of Ad Sales for all Fox News Media platforms, including Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, Fox News Audio, FOX Weather, FOX Nation, and Fox News Digital. Gargano joined the company in 2020 and has previously served as the Senior Vice President of Ad Sales. He previously worked in similar capacities for CNN and Turner/Warner Media.

Additionally, Ryan Roelle has been tabbed as the company’s Senior Vice President of National Sales. She will oversee the company’s linear and digital sales efforts while also leading the sales teams located in Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, and Atlanta. After a previous stop working at Fox News where she served as the Director of Digital Sales for the Midwest and West Coast, Roelle re-joined the network in 2018 after serving as Senior Director of Sales and Enterprise Sales for Viant. Like Gargano, Roelle also had previous cable news experience before joining Fox News Media, as she began her career in the industry at CNBC.

“Over the past four years, Trey’s vast knowledge and deep understanding of the news marketplace helped drive new revenue streams while Ryan has increased the effectiveness and performance of our endemic and national sales teams,” said Collins. “Together, they will ensure continued growth across FOX News Media platforms and success for our valued partners.”

John Kerley To Produce ‘Murph and Markus’ at KNBR San Francisco

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John Kerley To Produce ‘Murph and Markus’ at KNBR San Francisco

John Kerley announced via his X account he will be the new producer of Murph and Markus on KNBR in San Francisco. According to the post he will begin his new duties next week.

Kerley was previously a producer at KNBR rival 95.7 The Game on the Joe, Lo and Dibs show.

Murph and Markus is hosted by Brian Murphy and Markus Boucher and has been since early December. Prior to that it was Murph and Mac with Murphy and Paul McCaffrey for nearly 18 years.

ABC News’ Deborah Roberts Added to Presenters List at Broadcasters Foundation Gala

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ABC News’ Deborah Roberts Added to Presenters List at Broadcasters Foundation Gala

ABC News correspondent Deborah Roberts has been added to the list of presenters at the upcoming 2024 Golden Mic Gala for the Broadcasters Foundation of America.

Roberts will honor Deborah Norville as the 2024 recipient of the Edward F. McLaughlin Lifetime Achievement Award. The longtime Inside Edition host will receive the honor at the Golden Mic gala and fundraiser at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on Monday, March 4th.

“I’m looking forward to being a part of this well-deserved recognition of Deborah’s outstanding work as a broadcast journalist,” said Roberts.

“Deborah is one of the most respected journalists in broadcasting, and I am thrilled that she is going to be a part of this exciting program,” said Norville. “She is a colleague and a friend, and I am honored that she will be there with me.” 

“We are fortunate to have Deborah among the esteemed presenters to honor a tremendous broadcaster and BFOA board member — Deborah Norville,” added Broadcasters Foundation Chair Scott Herman. “It’s going to be a thrilling evening.”

TNT Sports Signs Reggie Miller to Long-Term Extension

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Reggie Miller never left Indiana during his playing career and he seems to be just as loyal in his media career. The longtime NBA forward just signed a long-term extension to remain with TNT Sports, his media home since 2005.

“I’ve been lucky enough to have two constants in my adult life: 18 years with the Indiana Pacers and 19+ years with TNT Sports. Excited to be back and proud to be part of this amazing TEAM, let’s keep chasing history together,” said Miller in a statement.

Miller joined the then-Turner Sports in August of 2005 after he retired from the NBA. His sister, Cheryl, was a sideline reporter at the time. While Cheryl has since moved on, Reggie remains one of the color commentators for TNT, often calling games alongside Kevin Harlan. A humorous exchange between the two went viral last year surrounding Los Angeles Lakers big man Anthony Davis:

“We’re so fortunate to have Reggie as a part of our TNT Sports family,” said Nate Smeltz, SVP of talent relations & global communications at TNT Sports. “There is no finer ambassador for the NBA and everything we bring with our coverage of the league, and we’re thrilled to extend our relationship for many years to come.”

Miller is amidst his 19th season with TNT Sports, serving as a game analyst for NBA on TNT’s regular season, NBA All-Star, and NBA Playoffs coverage, through the Conference Finals. He has called more than 650 national NBA regular season and playoff games throughout his television broadcasting career — fifth all-time among color commentators — including 13 NBA Conference Finals. He will be calling his 17th NBA All-Star Game for TNT this Sunday, Feb. 18.

KMBZ’s Scott Parks: Covering Tragedy Different When Its Your Home Market

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KMBZ’s Scott Parks: Covering Tragedy Different When Its Your Home Market

KMBZ hosts Scott Parks and Dana Wright had the unenviable task of covering the mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade Wednesday.

The shooting happened just as the afternoon program helmed by the longtime Kansas City radio stalwarts was about to begin. The duo dedicated their entire five-hour show to coverage of the mass shooting, speaking to callers who were eyewitnesses to the events, and also speaking to family members of KKFI radio host Lisa Lopez, who died in the shooting.

While discussing the day’s events, Parks admitted coverage of tragic events is different when it’s taking place in your city.

“On this horribly difficult day in Kansas City history, I’m trying to think of a time — certainly over the years, Dana and I’ve had to cover terrible things that have occurred in this country,” said Parks.

“The Boston Marathon bombing among them, Sandy Hook, Uvalde, Parkland. I can’t recall in the 12-plus years that we’ve been together having to cover something so traumatic for the city that we call home. In the city that we live in, and love. Today is hard.”

Wrigt concurred, calling the situation “very hard” to process and deal with while on the air.

Jason Rantz: Facebook Matters More to My Audience Than Any Other Social Media

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Jason Rantz: Facebook Matters More to My Audience Than Any Other Social Media

There’s a perception that no one uses Facebook anymore. 770 KTTH host Jason Rantz says he hasn’t experienced that, but has shared his displeasure with the social network.

During The Jason Rantz Show, the Seattle-based host shared that he still has a large audience on Facebook and its an important platform for him.

“I’ve been posting on my Facebook account, and I’ve been doing this for years,” said Rantz. “Normally, because on the Facebook side of things, I have about 51,000 followers, which is more than half of what I have over on the Twitter side, but I get a lot of engagement on Facebook. And I think it’s because the demographic of the show is more likely to be on Facebook than say TikTok or Instagram. So I take Facebook seriously as far as content distribution and putting my videos up.”

Rantz continued by noting he has had struggles with the social media platform and his reach. He says he was given the run around by the company’s support staff.

“For the last year and a half, (my reach) has pretty much gone down the drain. I get like 12 clicks on an article link that I post, when before I would get thousands. It really doesn’t make any sense,” said Rantz. “And I’ve been saying there’s something clearly wrong with my Facebook page and I’ve gone through a number of tech people asking them — from tech support, from Facebook — saying ‘Hey, what’s going on?’ And they keep telling me there’s nothing wrong, there’s nothing wrong, there’s nothing wrong.”

Rantz then said he was told that a glitch in the code of his page was limiting his reach, which should be rectified and allow him to continually reach his 51,000 followers.

Alex Gold of 610 Sports Kansas City Describes The Scene at Chiefs Parade Shootings

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Alex Gold, co-host of Cody & Gold on 610 Sports Kansas City was a guest of the Mully & Haugh Show on 670 The Score in Chicago this morning. Gold had been on site covering the Kansas City Chiefs parade on Wednesday when several people were shot.

“We are doing alright,” Gold said when welcomed to the show. “Fortunately when it comes to our staff and everything we had planned on the parade route, everybody that we had ties to was able to make it out alright. Obviously everyone is just angry and shocked, that’s a big part of the reaction from a lot of people in Kansas City with what transpired yesterday.”

The hosts asked Gold to describe where he was as everything unfolded. “It was a perfect day prior to the incident,” he said. “It was 65 degrees, one of the best days of the year, something people look forward to, these parades. School was cancelled around the area so you had families and all sorts of kids out there…We were further up the parade route than where Union Station is, which is where the shooting took place. We were on the parade route, joking around, kids were throwing footballs up four stories to condos, everyone is cheering on the people trying to catch it. It was just a great time, it really was a perfect day in KC, a celebration.”

Gold described what it was like seeing 10 to 15 police cars go by and immediately thinking something was wrong. “You could sense something was going on and word quickly traveled, unfortunately, that there was an active shooter situation.”

Gold also talked about some of the very positive stories that have come out of such an awful situation. Law enforcement has been widely celebrated for their response to the situation as have members of the Kansas City Chiefs.

“There’s a lot of reports that Chiefs players were comforting children inside of Union Station that were, understandably, so terrified and traumatized with something they might have to deal with, perhaps, for the rest of their lives. And seeing that Andy Reid was comforting a teenage kid who gave this extremely emotional interview on local television because he couldn’t find his friend. In this terrible, terrible situation there’s been a lot of comforting stories that speaks to how great the people are in Kansas City.”

Gold was then asked about his personal feelings as a longtime Kansas City resident. “I grew up here…everybody is so prideful about this city,” he began. “Specifically right now, and a lot of it is on the sports end. This city is kind of on a heater right now, there’s a lot of pride.

“Brand new airport, the draft was here, the Chiefs momentum. They’re going to build a brand new downtown ballpark, the first women’s professional soccer [stadium] is being built, the World Cup is going to have six matches here in Kansas City. There’s a feeling of a ton of momentum and movement. To have an event like this happen and bring a terrible spotlight on the city, I think it’s heartbreaking.”

Charlie Kirk, Mark Levin See Gains in Latest Triton Digital Podcast Rankings

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Charlie Kirk, Mark Levin See Gains in Latest Triton Digital Podcast Rankings

Triton Digital has released its podcast rankings for the month of January and both Charlie Kirk and Mark Levin have reason to celebrate.

The Charlie Kirk Show — distributed by Salem Podcast Network — rose three spots to finish as the 15th most listened-to podcast for the first month of 2024.

The Mark Levin Podcast from Cumulus Podcast Network rose one place to finish 24th overall.

News/talk radio and political podcasts were well-represented in the latest Triton rankings.

NPR News Now remained in the top spot, while NPR’s Up First moved up a spot to third overall. Dateline NBC dropped two spots to fourth. Meanwhile, The Dan Bongino Show remained in the top 10, staying put in seventh place.

Paramount’s 48 Hours podcast rose to ninth, with The NPR Politics Podcast remaining steady at 14th overall. Finally, Consider This From NPR dropped two places to 23rd.

Gregg Giannotti on WFAN: “Media Beefs are Great When You’re Not Involved In Them”

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Gregg Giannotti on WFAN: “Media Beefs are Great When You’re Not Involved In Them”

Boomer Esiason and Gregg Giannotti talked about the spat going on between Bill Simmons and Pat McAfee on Boomer & Gio this morning on WFAN. “Media Beefs are great when you’re not involved in them,” Giannotti said while starting the conversation.

The pair went through the recent history of Simmons and McAfee taking shots at one another on their platforms. It appears to have started when Simmons did an unflattering impression of McAfee on his podcast, or as Giannotti said, “He does this thing where he makes Pat McAfee look like an idiot surrounded by idiots.”

McAfee then came back at Simmons, noting both had promotions going with FanDuel around the Super Bowl. “I think Bill Simmons, who has it all figured out, I think he had like 8,000 people riding alongside of him,” McAfee said. “That’s a huge number, yeah — did not hit. That’s really big. Really good, Bill. You still have it…I think we had 250,000 people or something like that. Keep running your mouth, Bill, keep running your mouth.”

Two days later, during the Feb. 14 edition of The Bill Simmons Podcast, Simmons discussed sports ratings and took a subtle dig at McAfee’s, though he only refers to him as “whoever replaced the 12 p.m. SportsCenter.”

“This is going to keep going,” Giannotti said. “I feel like they need to do this on the air. Either McAfee needs to go on Simmons’ podcast or Simmons needs to go on McAfee.”

Esiason asked his co-host which of the two shows are more popular. Gio replied, “Right now I would say that the Pat McAfee show is.””Then why doesn’t Pat McAfee just laugh it off and just move on?” asked Esiason. “If you’re Coke, why are you fighting with Pepsi?”

Gio talked about the criticisms McAfee has faced and the battles he has fought recently. “Now [McAfee is] in the spotlight more than he’s ever been in the spotlight,” he said. “I think that he’s a little bit raw from all the things that have gone on since he’s gone over to ESPN…and he’s like, here’s Bill Simmons, who he probably thinks is a douche, taking a shot at him saying he doesn’t know what he’s doing. That hit harder to him than it would have normally if he hadn’t gone through all this other stuff. Does that make sense?”

“It does make sense,” Esiason said. “But I would just say, look man, you take the money, you put yourself on a platform where more people can see you, it’s part of the job, that’s all, just take it.”

Michael Berry: Reaction to Tucker Carlson Interview Based on Jealousy Not Morality

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Michael Berry: Reaction to Tucker Carlson Interview Based on Jealousy Not Morality

Tucker Carlson released his much-anticipated interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. After its release, it became a much-maligned interview, and Michael Berry believes he knows why.

While questioning why many in the media were so quick to malign Carlson, The Michael Berry Show host argued the reactions were based on jealousy and pettiness rather than principle and morality.

“Why are they so desperate to insult Tucker? Over 100 million people watched, well over a night that Fox had fewer than 2 million viewers with an entire network behind ’em,” said Berry before turning his attention to one of Carlson’s biggest critics.

“Chris Wallace is so jealous. So petty. Media members are so petty. Talk show hosts can be the same way. It is all about them. There is no truth and honor, anything of the sort. It is all about whether they’re getting the glory, whether they’re being written about and talked about. And Chris Wallace is just a sad little man, who, as Donald Trump said, doesn’t have the talent of his father. Just as simple as that.”

Berry took issue with the insinuation from Wallace that Carlson didn’t ask the Russian President about his motivations for invading Ukraine. However, Carlson did ask the longtime Russian leader about his belief that a U.S.-led invasion by NATO to Russia was imminent, leading to his invasion of Ukraine.

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