{"id":883996,"date":"2026-10-16T05:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/883996\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T05:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:30:11","slug":"irts-foundation-annual-mentorship-dinner-held-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/883996\/","title":{"rendered":"IRTS Foundation annual mentorship dinner held in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792128611_635_origin-wabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, October 16, 2026 3:30AM<\/p>\n<p>Wendell Scott, senior vice president of Disney Advertising Sales, received the Hall of Mentorship Award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NEW YORK &#8212; The International Radio and Television Society Foundation held its annual mentorship dinner on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The IRTS Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to developing the next generation of media leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Wendell Scott, senior vice president of Disney Advertising Sales, received the Hall of Mentorship Award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A 22-year veteran of Disney and ESPN, Scott oversees major advertising partnerships across Disney&#8217;s brands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Also in attendance was Debra OConnell, chairman of Disney Entertainment Television, and Rita Ferro, president of Global Advertising Sales for the Walt Disney Company.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, October 16, 2026 3:30AM Wendell Scott, senior vice president of Disney Advertising Sales, received the Hall of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[371105,88,92],"class_list":["post-883996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-371105","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}