Bonneville Seattle Gets Front-End Alignment

• Bonneville announced a sweeping management restructure of its three-station Seattle cluster — Sports-Talk KIRO-AM (710 ESPN), News-Talk 97.3 KIRO-FM and Conservative Talk 770 KTTH, all of which goes into effective Monday, August 26.

Four new directors have been selected to lead in the following areas: Mike Salk (pictured, below), PD of 710 ESPN is upped to Director of Programming, overseeing KIRO Radio, 710 ESPN and AM 770 KTTH, and Tina Sorensen is upped from Sales Manager of KIRO & KTTH to Director of Digital, managing both content and revenue for the Bonneville Seattle Digital Properties.

Current 710 ESPN Sales manager Cathy Cangiano is promoted to Director of Sales for KIRO Radio, 710 ESPN Seattle, AM 770 KTTH and Seattle Mariners Radio, and Alison Lichtbach is upped from Controller to Director of Finance, managing the Business and Operations Departments. Marin Brustuen continues to serve as the fifth director in her existing role as Human Resources Business Partner.

And there’s more — Bonneville has awarded expanded responsibilities to three of the cluster’s managers: Bryan Buckalew is named Program Director of KIRO-FM; Colleen O’Brien is named Managing Editor of KIRO-FM, leading its news department, and Ethan Kelly is named Sales Manager of KIRO-FM and KTTH. As part of the restructure, the company recently eliminated the position of Director of News and Programming at KIRO-FM, resulting in the exit of Ryan Maguire.

“These are proven leaders within our organization who are ready for their challenging assignments,” said Dave Pridemore, VP/Market Manager of the Bonneville Seattle Media Group. “They are innovative and prepared to provide guidance as we look to the future of our dynamic and far reaching audio and digital products. This new structure ensures our success in 2020 and beyond and elevates our daily focus on our digital business which is imperative, as Bonneville Seattle is well positioned in this space to generate significant audience growth and to deliver solid ROI to our clients.”