Originally published in the May 30, 2025 edition of The Weekly Briefing
Alan Dark, Chief Revenue Officer at Rogers Sports & Media, is exiting the company. Dark joined Rogers in 2014 as VP of National Sales, Media, moving into the role of SVP, Sales of Rogers Sports & Media sales division within seven months. He’d been SVP of Revenue since 2020. Read more here.
Dean Rutherford will be joining the Stingray Radio team as the company’s new Vice President of Sales. Rutherford was most recently Director of National Sales & Audio Lead at Bell Media, where his team was also responsible for Stingray Radio’s national sales effort for the last nine years. He’d been with Bell and previously Astral for 25 years. Read more here.
Mark Connolly will retire from CBC Edmonton on July 31 after 36 years with the public broadcaster. The host of Edmonton AM, the local CBC Radio morning show for the last 12 years, Connolly started with CBC as a sports reporter in 1988. He then moved into TV anchoring from 2010-13, before assuming his current role. Connolly, who has covered 11 Olympic Games, started his career in Fort McMurray, AB, where he was the play-by-play voice of the Alberta Junior Hockey League Oil Barons. He went on to work in Red Deer and for Edmonton’s K-97 (CIRK-FM), prior to joining CBC.
John Andersen (aka Andy Johnson) is retiring from Zoomer Media this Friday after 12 years as the morning news anchor on The New Classical 93.6 FM (CFMZ-FM) Toronto, 103.1 FM (CFMX-FM) Cobourg and 102.9 FM (CFMO-FM) Collingwood. Anderson has been a broadcast journalist for more than 50 years, including anchoring national newscasts and hosting the Toronto morning show for the CKO Radio network throughout the 1980s.
Alex Brown has left Rawlco Radio’s 650 CKOM in Saskatoon to pursue other opportunities. Brown joined the station as a reporter one year ago after getting caught up in layoffs at CTV Saskatoon in February 2024 where she anchored CTV Morning Live.
Todd Roberts and Anthony Gallace have joined AdCellerant, as the Denver-based software company makes its digital advertising technology, automation, and sales support solutions available to Canadian agencies and media companies. As previously reported, former Harvard Media Executive Vice-President George Leith is spearheading AdCellerant’s Canadian operations. Roberts, Senior Business Development Manager, and Anthony Gallace, Senior Director, Agency Partnerships, are both Harvard Media sales alumni. Gallace was most recently Harvard’s Director of Sales, Northern Markets, based in Edmonton, while Roberts was in sales for Harvard’s Saskatoon group of stations. Prior to that, Roberts led sales and business development for Saskatoon-based software company, Vendasta, for a decade, where Leith served as Chief Customer Officer. Read more here.
Cameron Pictures Inc. (CPI), the independent production company behind Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent, Mary Kills People and Pretty Hard Cases, is expanding its creative team with the appointment of Karen Tsang as Vice President of Creative Affairs. In the newly formed role, Tsang oversees the creative pipeline of original scripted series, reporting to CPI co-founders and sibling filmmaking duo Tassie Cameron and Amy Cameron. Tsang joins Cameron Pictures from Pier 21 Films, where she served as Senior Vice President of Creative Affairs. Prior to her time at Pier 21, Karen spent eight years at the CBC, most recently as Executive in Charge of Production, Comedy. CPI has also promoted Caledonia Brown from Co-Producer to Supervising Producer / VP, Operations and will continue to work across CPI’s projects from concept to broadcast, along with overseeing day-to-day operations of the company.
