Members select Esposito as new RTNDA chairman

Edward Esposito, VP of information media for Rubber City Radio Group in Akron, OH, was elected as the new chairman of the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) last week during RTNDA@NAB in Las Vegas.

Esposito succeeds Bill Roswell, director of digital news and media at KYW-AM in Philadelphia.

Stacey Woelfel, news director at KOMU-TV in Columbia, MO, was chosen to be RTNDA’s chairman-elect. He will produce the 2009 RTNDA convention. Loren Tobia, senior account executive at Accuweather, was elected to a three-year term as RTNDA treasurer. This is Tobia's third term as treasurer.

Voting members of the association also chose David Louie, a reporter at KGO-TV in San Francisco, and Ed Tobias, assistant managing editor/broadcast news at The Associated Press in Washington, D.C., to be directors-at-large. They will serve two-year terms.

Representatives elected to the RTNDA Board of Directors also serve as RTNDF trustees.

For more information, visit www.rtnda.org.