iHeart Names Nine Division Presidents

• Against the backdrop of iHeartMedia personnel cuts happening across the country, the company formally announced that nine of its senior executives have been elevated to Division Presidents of the new iHeartMedia Markets Group organization, effective immediately. All nine executives will report to Greg Ashlock, President of the iHeartMedia Markets Group.

• The Region Division will be lead by Kevin LeGrett and Scott Hopeck — LeGrett previously served as Division President and EVP of Operations for the iHeartMedia Markets Group overseeing Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Diego, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin and Washington, D.C., and had responsibility for leading political strategy. Hopeck was previously a Division President overseeing the company’s New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco/Sacramento Regions.

• The Metro Division will be lead by Tom McConnell, Tony Coles and Linda Byrd — McConnell previously served as Division President of the iHeartMedia Markets Group with the responsibility for the P&L of more than 200 stations across the Northeastern U.S.; Coles previously served as EVP of Programming, and Byrd previously served as a Division President for the iHeartMedia Markets Group, overseeing markets in North Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.

• The Community Division will be lead by Shosh Abromovich, Nick Gnau and Dan Lankford — Abromovich was most recently Market President for iHeartMedia Toledo; Gnau was most recently President of iHeartMedia’s Philadelphia Region and Lankford previously served as Region President of iHeartMedia’s Allentown-Harrisburg Region.

• Julie Donohue is the newly named President of the Multi-Market Partnerships Division, “which empowers iHeart sales teams, regardless of market size and location, to access and leverage all the assets iHeartMedia offers.” Prior to this, Donohue spent four years as the SVP of Multi-Market Partnerships.

In addition, the company’s Integrated Revenue Strategies group, led by President Hartley Adkins, will be merged into the iHeartMedia Markets Group and Adkins will become Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Markets Group working closely with Ashlock, who remarked, “It’s an exciting time at iHeart as we launch our new Markets Group structure to capitalize on our unparalleled reach and groundbreaking technology to create one-of-a-kind platforms and services for our employees, partners and listeners. Our nine Division Presidents bring a complementary portfolio of knowledge, leadership and diverse functional expertise that will position us well as we continue to transform and modernize as the leader in the audio space.”