In 2009, CRN received MediaWeek Magazine’s Award for the Media Plan of the Year for Local Television and Cable.
MediaWeek contained a story on page five that SMD Publishing were to close the title unless a buyer could be found.
After graduate school, Granger held positions as executive editor of Adweek and Mediaweek; he worked on the launch of The National Sports Daily and served as its executive features editor; he helped launch Sports, Inc., the Sports Business Weekly, and worked as an editor at Sport Magazine and Family Weekly prior to that.