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Talent Moves At NMG

Congrats to our friends at Napoli Managment on a number of great newsroom placements. Boris Sanchez is promoted to anchor New Day Weekend CNN. Guad Venegas joins NBC News a correspondent based in Los Angeles. Ike Ejiochi joined ABC News as a multi-platform reporter. Prior to this move, he was a reporter for WTTG in Washington DC. Victoria DeFrancesco Soto becomes a political analyst for the Telemundo Network and continues as a contributor for MSNBC. Rebekah Castor has been hired to the prestigious FOX MMR program. Rebekah is one of only five people chosen to participate. She’ll be based in New Orleans. Tony Cabrera is promoted to the weekend morning weather anchor at KABC in Los Angeles. He will continue to report during the week. Amanda VanAllen moves into the morning anchor position at WPHL in Philadelphia. Suzanne Brunner moves into a top five market and becomes a morning news specialty anchor and reporter at WFAA in Dallas. Tim Pandajis is promoted from within Tegna and lands at KHOU in Houston as a Monday-Friday meteorologist. And, there's more! For a full list click here.

Talent Moves at DCA

NMG Expanding

Los Angeles - Napoli Management Group, a Blue Equity portfolio company, is pleased to announce that Seth Mayeri has joined the company. He will serve as both a talent agent and the head of Napoli’s New York City office.

Seth has been representing talent in news, sports, and entertainment for 25 years. Since 2006, he has been a co-owner and agent at Evolution Media Talent. Seth brings with him a group of very successful clients in all facets of the industry.

Seth began his career in 1993 at Athletes and Artists, a prominent boutique management firm that represented high-profile broadcasters and professional athletes. He remained an agent with the company as it grew to become Marquee Group and eventually SFX.

Seth left SFX in 2005 and soon after he co-founded Evolution Media Talent with several business partners. There Seth focused on representing talent in network, cable, regional and local TV markets, as well as hosts, correspondents, and analysts for established and emerging digital outlets. He has launched the careers of numerous prominent television personalities.

“Seth is a great addition to our team of highly successful agents,” said Napoli Management Group president, Mendes Napoli. “Also, opening an office in New York gives us an additional presence in the nation’s number one TV market and home to most of the major TV News networks.”

Talent Moves At Napoli Management

Congrats to our friends at NMG for a number of great newsroom placements: 

SPOTLIGHT: Jerry Askin

Talent Moves At DCA

Talent Moves At 3 Kings Entertainment

Congrats to our friends at 3 Kings Entertainment on a number of great newsroom placements: ZUBIN MEHENTI is promoted to co-host ESPN Radio’s new morning show, “Keyshawn, Jay and Zubin.”  JAN JEFFCOAT this week becomes the face of Sinclair’s National News Service, solo anchoring a new weekday morning show from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. She is based out of Sinclair’s new studios in Washington, D.C. JOHN SCHRIFFEN joins ESPN as a play-by-play announcer, host, and reporter for all of the network’s programs and platforms based in Los Angeles. TIM MURRAY joins VSiN in Las Vegas as a host and will contribute across all of the network’s programs and platforms. LISA VILLAGES, a meteorologist from KOLD in Tucson, Ariz., joins KCPQ in Seattle, where she’ll be the station’s chief meteorologist. CARLA METTS GEBHART is joining WJZY in Charlotte, N.C., as a sports MMJ. JOSEPH OJO, a reporter at WBBH in Fort Myers, Fla., is heading to Baltimore as a reporter at WBFF. Investigative reporter WENDY HALLORAN joined KUTV in Salt Lake City. All are represented by Matthew Kingsley

Talent Moves at Napoli Managment

Ryan Young moves to the Atlanta headquarters of CNN and signs a new agreement as national correspondent.  Craig Stevens celebrates his twentieth year as primary anchor by renewing his agreement at WSVN in Miami. Gene Kang moves to KTLA where he will join the team as a freelance reporter. Erik Runge is promoted to fulltime morning reporter at WGN in Chicago. Aisha Mbowe joins WHDH in Boston as a reporter in early December. Lena Tillett moves to anchor the 4, 5:30 and 10PM broadcasts at WRAL in Raleigh.  Kacy Hintz joins WRAL in Raleigh as weekend sports anchor. Lexie Petrovic joins WWMT in Kalamazoo as a reporter and MMJ. Stephon Dingle is promoted to evening anchor and reporter at WLKY in Louisville. Jennifer Abney moves back to the Carolinas as she becomes primary anchor for WPDE in Myrtle Beach. Kristine Lazar renews her agreement with KCBS/KCAL in Los Angeles as the 2 On Your Side reporter and anchor. Check out more talent moves here. These journalists are represented by Mendes Napoli, Laurie Jacoby, David Ahrendts, Jean Sage, Sue McInerney, Liz Sherwin, Al Corral, and Mike Isenberg of Napoli Management Group. 

Talent Moves at JBA

Congrats to John Butte & Associates for several successful talent moves in the midst of the pandemic. At WKYC, Cleveland, Danielle Wiggins is promoted to morning news co-anchor of the 4:30 a.m. newscast. She continues as both morning traffic anchor and reporter. Across the street, Investigative Reporter, Sara Goldenberg renews her role at WOIO. Also, in Cleveland, Kamady Rudd joins Spectrum News 1 Ohio in a morning update role and reporter as Spectrum expands its Cleveland news coverage. Meghan Bragg moves to the evening co-anchor desk at WSTM, Syracuse from her reporter position at WBBH, Ft. Myers. Reporter and backup anchor Amber Krycka, WJAX Jacksonville, returns to the Midwest as the main evening co-anchor at Quincy’s WEEK, Peoria.  In New Orleans, Jade Cunningham, adds another contract year to her reporting and backup anchor role at WWL. These journalists are all represented by John Butte.

SPOTLIGHT: Eryn Rogers

Eryn is a two-time Emmy Award-Winning Anchor/Reporter looking to continue career as an Anchor and Reporter. Currently working in Macon, you can check out her full profile in the CT Talent Gallery