Salem Communications has made some changes at the management level involving the Tampa and Florida markets. Chris Gould moves from General Manager of Salem's Tampa and Sarasota cluster to VP, National Program Development. Barb Yoder replaces Chris Gould as General Manager of Tampa and Sarasota Florida cluster. Barb has been General Sales Manager for Tampa since 2007.
Gould will be based in Salem's corporate office in Camarillo, CA. and will replace Ron Walters in the area of national ministry program sales for Salem's Teaching and Talk stations.
With Barb's promotion, a search is underway for a new GSM in this market.
Salem also announced Ron Walters is promoted to Senior Vice President, Ministry Relations. The primary focus of Ron's role will be to expand and enhance the relationship Salem stations have with national and local ministry partners as well as with the local church communities in each Teaching and Talk market. After the first of the year Ron will be relocating to an office in the Seattle area.