Executive Transactions

NBC Sports Boston promoted Senior VP CHRIS WAYLAND to Senior VP & GM. Wayland will also continue to oversee the sales, finance, marketing and digital departments for WBTS-NBC, WNEU-Telemundo and NECN.com (NBCSB)....NBC Sports Chicago, WMAQ-NBC and WSNS-Telemundo promoted VP & General Sales Manager JILL FIELDS to Senior VP/Ad Sales, effective immediately. Fields had been in her previous role since '17 (NBCSC).

EXECS: Veteran property sales exec DOUG SMOYER has joined Legends as Senior VP/Global Partnerships. Smoyer will be based in Legends' lower Manhattan offices and report to CRO CHRIS HIBBS. Smoyer has been an independent sales and marketing consultant since late '17. Before that, he had served as Van Wagner Sports & Entertainment Chief Sales Officer, NFL VP/Business Development, NFL Giants VP/Business Development, Redskins Senior Dir of Corporate Hospitality and a Penguins account exec (Terry Lefton, THE DAILY)....Spectra promoted the following: RICHARD SCHNEIDER to Exec VP/Food Services & Hospitality; TYLER FIKE to VP/Finance, Food Services & Hospitality; BLAIR CARDINAL to VP/Communications and AMY MINNITI to VP & Deputy General Counsel. Spectra also named MIKE REINERT VP/Procurement while the Spectra Partnerships team named DAVID LIVINGSTON VP (THE DAILY)....Football Bowl Association Exec Dir WRIGHT WATERS is retiring in June '20 (TWITTER.com, 11/21)....The NHL Kings promoted Fan Service Associate KYLIE SULLIVAN to Office Coordinator (THE DAILY).

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