Reno Media Group has promoted Kara Brown from General Sales Manager to VP/General Manager.
Brown joined Reno Media Group last year after spending most of her career in the Reno market. After a stint at KTVN-TV, she served as General Sales Manager for Citadel Broadcasting from 1999-2002, Director of Sales for NextMedia from 2002-2006, and multiple roles for Times-Shamrock including Director of Sales, General Manager and Corporate Director of Digital/Radio Operations from 2012-2018. She also ran her own ad agency from 2006-2010 and was COO of Foundry Ideas before joining Reno Media Group last August.
Brown is succeeding Tricia Gallenbeck in leading the Reno Media Group cluster. Gallenbeck, who has led the cluster since January 2016, will exit the company next month to relocate to Salem OR.
Kara Brown, a veteran Reno broadcaster and media executive, was named Vice President and General Manager of Reno Media Group today, where she will direct the company’s nine radio stations, social media platforms and all other digital services.
Brown, who has been Reno Media Group’s general sales manager since last year, will succeed Tricia Gallenbeck, who is leaving early next month to join her husband in Salem, Oregon.“Tricia was a terrific leader of our company for more than five years and we’ll all miss her,” Tom Quinn, Reno Media Group’s president, said. “She successfully led the company through an extraordinarily difficult year. We’re very fortunate that Kara is already on board and she’s more than ready for this promotion.”
Brown, a Montana native and graduate of the University of Montana, began her career at a Montana television station and moved to Reno in 1997, working for KTVN/Channel 2 before shifting to radio. She was a sales executive and sales manager for Reno Media Group, then known as Americom, more than 20 years ago. More recently she was general manager of four Reno stations owned by Times Shamrock, a 100-year-old newspaper, radio and outdoor company, and when those stations were sold Brown became a corporate executive for the company overseeing its radio and internet divisions. She later was chief operating officer of Reno’s Foundry Advertising Agency, and left that position last year to rejoin Reno Media Group.
“I have always had a deep passion for radio and the success that comes along with the medium,” Brown said. “I love Tom Quinn’s forward-thinking nature and Reno Media Group is continually enhancing its radio and online products to ensure client success. I feel like I am home.”
Quinn called Brown “an extraordinary and strong leader” who will continue to expand Reno Media Group’s products. “She’s also a warm, charismatic person, and our staff seems very excited that she’ll be our new general manager.”
When not working Kara spends lots of time playing at Lake Tahoe with her family.
