Executive Action: Sun Sachs
• The NAB announced that Sun Sachs, Townsquare’s SVP of Digital Products will be the recipient of the 2024 Digital Leadership Award. Sachs will be honored during the Broadcasting Hall of Fame ceremony on April 15 at 1pm PT on the Main Stage at the NAB Show.
Created in 2015, the Digital Leadership Award honors an individual at a broadcast station, group or network who has had a significant role in transforming a traditional broadcast business to succeed on digital media platforms in a measurable way.
Sachs’ distinguished career in media and digital has been marked by significant growth and innovation over more than a quarter of a century. Since joining Townsquare Media in 2010, he has been instrumental in driving substantial audience expansion and revenue growth. Sachs and his team’s work has been pivotal in developing Townsquare’s proprietary content management system and mobile application platform, which serve both their local radio stations and nationally recognized websites, as well as other digital products helping to drive digital revenues from <5% of total revenue in 2010 to >50% in 2023.
Sachs previously served as the VP of Product at AOL Media and has been a creative and technology leader at various other digital firms in New York throughout his distinguished career, earning him numerous awards and accolades, including a Webby, IMA, MIXX, a Technology Emmy nomination and the 2022 NAB PILOT Innovation Challenge award.
Sachs is an active member of the NAB Digital Officer Committee, the NAB Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology Conference Committee and has served as a moderator at NAB conferences.
