The NAB Television Board, meeting in Washington this week, elected Barrington Broadcasting CEO James Yager to succeed Post-Newsweek Stations CEO Alan Frank as chairman.

The TV board re-elected Lynn Beall, EVP of Gannett Broadcasting, first vice chair and elected Paul Karpowicz, president of Meredith Broadcasting, second vice chair.

In other actions, the TV board voted to oppose an effort to permit the use of TV channels 5 and 6 for radio. That effort is being led by Ace Radio and Mullaney Engineering.

And it adopted a resolution urging Nielsen to change the May 2009 Sweeps period—currently set for April 30-May 25—to substitute dates of April 23-May 20.

The NAB joint board, which represents both the radio and TV sides of the NAB, re-elected Jack Sander as its chairman. Sander is a senior advisor to Belo Corp.

At the radio board meeting, Steve Newberry, president and CEO of Commonwealth Broadcasting, was elected chairman. He’ll succeed Russ Withers, owner of Withers Broadcasting.

Charles Warfield, COO of ICBC Broadcast Holdings, was elected first vice chair. Caroline Beasley, EVP of Beasley Broadcast Group, was elected second vice chair.