Guenther Promoted to CTD's Senior VP

Greg Guenther has been promoted to senior vice president, Midwest regional sales manager, at CBS Television Distribution, said Joe DiSalvo, CTD's president of sales.

Guenther has been VP, Midwest regional manager, since 2010, based out of CTD's Chicago office. There, he's responsible for selling to the Midwest's major broadcast groups, including Tribune, Local TV, Weigel, Newport and Barrington Broadcasting. He's been working out of Chicago for ten years, and with CTD for 15.

He started as a runner at CTD's syndicated news magazine Inside Edition, where he worked his way up to coordinating producer. In 2002, he switched to sales. In 2008, he was named central division manager in 2008.

Guenther graduated from Ohio's Marietta College with a bachelor's degree in history.

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.