Colorado Media Newsroom
December 4th, 2023, 08:20 AM
From Radio Insight:
https://radioinsight.com/wp-content/images/2023/12/jimloftus-150x200.jpgAfter a little over five years as Chief Operating Officer at Seven Mountains Media, Jim Loftus is exiting the company to join Times-Shamrock Communications as Chief Executive Officer.
Loftus will succeed Jim Lewandowski, who will step down from the position on December 31. Loftus previously served as Chief Operating Officer for Times-Shamrock from 1997 until 2005. Spending his entire career in Pennsylvania beginning on-air, Loftus has also served as Director of Sales for WFIL and WUSL Philadelphia, VP/General Manager of Susquehanna Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and CBS Radio Philadelphia, and President/CEO of AC 101.1 WBEB Philadelphia during his career. He joined Seven Mountains in October 2018 (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/170913/jim-loftus-joins-seven-mountains-media-as-coo/) where he was part of the group’s growth across Pennsylania, the southern tier of New York and most recently (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/258875/seven-mountains-media-acquires-bowling-green-ky-cluster/) Kentucky.
After selling its newspaper and printing businesses earlier this year to MediaNews Group (https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/times-shamrock-selling-off-its-newspaper-group-tribune-citizens-voice-republican-herald-standard-speaker/523-afd620c8-b8e7-467c-a240-46ecee86ab83), Times-Shamrock continues to own a billboard business as well as a radio station group of Classic Rock “100.7 The Bay (https://www.thebayonline.com)” WZBA Westminster and 100.1 W261CD Baltimore, 103.1 KACP Pahrump and 106.1 KACP Amargosa Valley/K291BX Las Vegas NV, and a cluster of stations in its home of Scranton/Wilkes-Barre PA: AC “QFM (https://www.qfmnow.com)” 92.1 WQFM Nanticoke/100.1 WQFN Forest City, Classic Rock “Rock 107 (https://www.rock107.com)” 106.9 WEZX Scranton/105.9 WPZX Pocono Pines/1240 WFUZ Wilkes-Barre and multiple translators, and Sports “ESPN Radio (https://www.nepasespnradio.com)” 630 WEJL/100.5 W263AL Scranton and 96.1 W241BB Wilkes-Barre. The company also owns 50% of the Milwaukee Radio Alliance with All-Pro Broadcasting that operates AC “B93.3 (https://www.b933fm.com)” WLDB, Alternative “FM 102.1 (https://www.fm1021milwaukee.com)” WLUM and Oldies “Fonz-FM (https://www.fonzfmmke.com)” 1290 WZTI/100.3 W262CJ/107.3 W297BY.
more (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/261802/jim-loftus-departs-seven-mountains-media-to-join-times-shamrock-as-ceo/)
https://radioinsight.com/wp-content/images/2023/12/jimloftus-150x200.jpgAfter a little over five years as Chief Operating Officer at Seven Mountains Media, Jim Loftus is exiting the company to join Times-Shamrock Communications as Chief Executive Officer.
Loftus will succeed Jim Lewandowski, who will step down from the position on December 31. Loftus previously served as Chief Operating Officer for Times-Shamrock from 1997 until 2005. Spending his entire career in Pennsylvania beginning on-air, Loftus has also served as Director of Sales for WFIL and WUSL Philadelphia, VP/General Manager of Susquehanna Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and CBS Radio Philadelphia, and President/CEO of AC 101.1 WBEB Philadelphia during his career. He joined Seven Mountains in October 2018 (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/170913/jim-loftus-joins-seven-mountains-media-as-coo/) where he was part of the group’s growth across Pennsylania, the southern tier of New York and most recently (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/258875/seven-mountains-media-acquires-bowling-green-ky-cluster/) Kentucky.
After selling its newspaper and printing businesses earlier this year to MediaNews Group (https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/times-shamrock-selling-off-its-newspaper-group-tribune-citizens-voice-republican-herald-standard-speaker/523-afd620c8-b8e7-467c-a240-46ecee86ab83), Times-Shamrock continues to own a billboard business as well as a radio station group of Classic Rock “100.7 The Bay (https://www.thebayonline.com)” WZBA Westminster and 100.1 W261CD Baltimore, 103.1 KACP Pahrump and 106.1 KACP Amargosa Valley/K291BX Las Vegas NV, and a cluster of stations in its home of Scranton/Wilkes-Barre PA: AC “QFM (https://www.qfmnow.com)” 92.1 WQFM Nanticoke/100.1 WQFN Forest City, Classic Rock “Rock 107 (https://www.rock107.com)” 106.9 WEZX Scranton/105.9 WPZX Pocono Pines/1240 WFUZ Wilkes-Barre and multiple translators, and Sports “ESPN Radio (https://www.nepasespnradio.com)” 630 WEJL/100.5 W263AL Scranton and 96.1 W241BB Wilkes-Barre. The company also owns 50% of the Milwaukee Radio Alliance with All-Pro Broadcasting that operates AC “B93.3 (https://www.b933fm.com)” WLDB, Alternative “FM 102.1 (https://www.fm1021milwaukee.com)” WLUM and Oldies “Fonz-FM (https://www.fonzfmmke.com)” 1290 WZTI/100.3 W262CJ/107.3 W297BY.
more (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/261802/jim-loftus-departs-seven-mountains-media-to-join-times-shamrock-as-ceo/)