Gamut Names Rachel Williamson as New Vice President and General Manager

NEW YORK, Feb. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Gamut, a Cox Media Group company, has named Rachel Williamson as its new Vice President and General Manager of Gamut, effective immediately and based in New York City. In addition to overseeing Gamut's sales, marketing and ad operations, Williamson will drive the continued engagement between Gamut's sales and programmatic teams in New York and San Francisco, as well as leveraging Cox Media Group's collaborative efforts of its national portfolio with CoxReps and Videa teams. 

"Rachel Williamson's energy, strong sales and coaching background, in addition to her experience in the digital and national sales space, made her a terrific candidate and a perfect fit for this important leadership position," said Kim Guthrie, CMG's Executive VP of National Advertising Platforms.  "I have known Rachel for several years, and she is a smart, energetic leader with a great work ethic.  I am thrilled that we can tap internal talent for critical leadership positions like this." 

Williamson's media career includes several years with CMG as a Sr. Account Executive and Sales Manager at the company's previously-owned Louisville radio stations and later as a Sr. Account Executive at Cox Digital Solutions (now known as Gamut) in New York.  Most recently, she worked as Director of Digital Revenue Development for CMG.  In that role, she worked directly with our CMG Local Solutions team and all of CMG's market leaders on sales strategies, best practices, digital business management and analysis to achieve increased year-over-year digital revenues.  She also has held positions with Arbitron/Nielsen covering Radio Sales in the Midwest, Hubbard Broadcasting Chicago, and Forever Communications.

"We have an incredibly talented team at Gamut, and I am excited to have the opportunity to lead this organization in driving digital success for our advertisers and publishers," said Williamson.  "CMG has provided me with numerous growth opportunities in my tenure, and I am honored to take on this new challenge with Kim Guthrie and the Gamut, CoxReps and Videa teams."

For more information on Gamut and the services it provides, please visit: www.gamut.media.

About Gamut
Gamut is a digital media services company owned by Cox Media Group. Gamut serves agencies and publishers, programmatically and direct, by aligning planning, research, inventory, and execution into a single smart service offering. At Gamut, it isn't about buying and selling programmatically. It is about identifying those areas of each client's business ripe for automation, and inserting the right solution to complement and inform their entire strategy. Learn more at www.gamut.media.

About CoxReps
CoxReps is the premiere media sales and marketing organization servicing a wide array of television station clients and advertiser and advertising agency customers across the United States. In addition to the CoxReps core business of National Spot TV sales, Gamut provides our advertiser clients multiple cross-platform opportunities to maximize their ability to reach their respective target audiences. CoxReps is a division of Cox Media Group Inc. Learn more at www.coxreps.com. 

About Cox Media Group
Cox Media Group is an integrated broadcasting, publishing, direct marketing and digital media company that includes the national advertising rep firms of CoxReps.  Additionally, CMG owns Cox Target Media, which operates Valpak, one of North America's leading direct marketing companies, and Savings.com, a leading online source for savings. The company's operations currently include 14 broadcast television stations and one local cable channel, 60 radio stations, six daily newspapers and more than a dozen non-daily publications, and more than 100 digital services.  CMG currently operates in more than 20 media markets and reaches approximately 52 million Americans weekly, including more than 31 million TV viewers, more than 3.5 million newspaper readers, and more than 14 million radio listeners.  For more information about Cox Media Group, please check us out online at www.coxmediagroup.com.

SOURCE Cox Media Group

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