Freedom Communications, which emerged from bankruptcy protection in late April, has a new CEO. The company has hired former DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) CEO Mitchell Stern to fill the role, which had been vacant since June 2009, when Scott Flanders left to take the top job at Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA). Former Associated Press chairman Burl Osborne had been serving as interim CEO since then.
Stern was at DirecTV between December 2003 and March 2005, when his duties overseeing day-to-day operations at the satellite broadcaster were taken over by then DirecTV Group CEO Chase Carey.
In a release, Stern says that with “a restructuring behind it, Freedom is perfectly positioned to demonstrate what it means to be a new kind of media company” — although there are no details about how the company, which owns 100 daily and weekly newspapers, as well as eight TV stations, plans on doing that.

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