Local management news: Joe Atamian is the new vice president and general manager for Comcast in Tucson. He comes from the cable company’s Denver operation where he was the call center’s senior director of customer care. Atamian is a University of Arizona graduate. He fills the vacancy created when Paul Percora left in February... Jeff Green has been promoted at KVOA 4 to general sales manager filling the vacancy created in March when Evan Pappas was promoted by the parent company to be general manager of its station in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Green had been local sales manager since 2005 and before that was regional sales manager for four years. He joined KVOA as an account executive in 1999 and previously worked for KGUN 9 and at Motorola in Los Angeles.

Andrew Stewart has gone from TV broadcasting to print. The former general manager of CW-affiliate KWBA 58/cable 8 and ABC-affiliate KGUN 9 is now vice president of sales for Madden Media, which specializes in publishing glossy travel and visitors guides and other specialty publications... An update from another glossy publication, owner James Conley now carries the title of publisher of Tucson Lifestyle and Fran Katz is associate publisher. As noted here earlier this month, Steve Rosenberg left the publication... And at Wick Communications’ Tucson office, Monica Akyol has been named classified advertising manager. She’s responsible for classified advertising in both the Tucson Weekly, Inside Tucson Business and other Wick community publications in Southern Arizona.     

On the radio dial: Gastón Mascareñas is the host of a new morning show, “Puro Vacilón con Gastón (The Morning Tease with Gastón),” on La Poderosa KZLZ 105.3-FM. Mascareñas, who is blind, was born in Nogales, Son., where he began his radio career. The new show also includes Marisol Felix... Jorge Gastelum, who is on the air from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays on Clear Channel’s La Preciosa KTZR 97.1-FM, has been picked to be the host of “Estrellas Telemundo” on KHRR 40. The TV program, which airs at 5 p.m. Sundays, features music videos and interviews with Southern Arizona musicians and entertainers. Gastelum will continue to host his radio show... Jason Nagel is the new host on The Mountain KWMT 92.9-FM from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. He comes from Minneapolis.

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The award goes to...

Bobby Rich, of the Journal Broadcast Group’s Mix-FM KMXZ 94.9-FM, beat out radio personalities in Boston, Dallas, Detroit, Seattle and Portland, Ore., for personality of the year on an adult contemporary station. It was among four awards brought home by Tucson stations from the industry’s Radio & Records conference this month. Mix-FM also won the station of the year award among adult contemporary music stations in markets 51 to 100, Clear Channel’s KRQ 93.7-FM won the same award among hit music stations, and Lotus’ La Caliente KCMT 102.1-FM won it in the Latin category.

Once again, KRQ’s Johnjay VanEs and Rich Berra lost out to Los Angeles-based Ryan Seacrest as hit music station personality of the year.

Media stock woes

With so many eyes focused on Wall Street these days, you’d think there might be a little more sympathy for media stocks. Lee Enterprises, owner of the Arizona Daily Star, and McClatchy Newspapers, the nation’s third largest chain, have been the two most often short-sold media stocks this summer, but neither was included on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s list of nearly 900 stocks banned from short selling until Thursday (Oct. 2).

Earlier this month, Lee Enterprises was removed from the Standard & Poor’s MidCap 400 because its market capitalization of $151 million fell below the rest on the index.

Citadel Broadcasting said this month it received a notice from the New York Stock Exchange saying its stock was subject to being delisted because it fell below minimum standards. It has been trading at under $1 a share since Aug. 12. The company said it would correct the situation but offered no other specifics. Normally, the company would have until Feb. 12 to get its stock price up over $1 per share.

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