---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-24-012815"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SGA"
cik: "0000886136"
company_name: "SAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC"
filed_at: "2024-09-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T04:49:20.378592+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Saga Communications promotes Sam Bush to EVP, Wayne Leland to COO

## Summary
- Samuel D. Bush promoted to Executive Vice President, retaining CFO and Treasurer roles, effective Sept 16, 2024.
- Wayne Leland promoted from SVP/Operations to Chief Operating Officer, joining executive team in Jan 2023.
- Bush joined Saga in 1997; Leland joined in 2011 as Norfolk GM before leading Tidewater Communications.
- Both executives remain under existing employment agreements with compensation unchanged.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-24-012815
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SGA
- cik: 0000886136
- company_name: SAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC
- filed_at: 2024-09-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886136/000155837024012815/0001558370-24-012815-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886136/000155837024012815/sga-20240916x8k.htm

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