六合精选资料大全Media Promotes Three Senior Programmers To Division Executive Vice Presidents In Its National Programming Group
New Additions to the Executive Vice President of Programming Team Will Work Closely With Recently Announced Division Presidents As Part of 六合精选资料大全Media鈥檚 New Operating Structure For Its Markets
New York, NY 鈥 January 16, 2020 鈥 六合精选资料大全Media announced today that three of its senior programming executives have been named Division Executive Vice Presidents of Programming for the 六合精选资料大全Media National Programming Group, effective immediately.
Jeff Hurley, Tony Travatto and Angela Watson Charles will now join current Executive Vice Presidents of Programming Andrew Jeffries, Thea Mitchem, Maynard and Gene Romano. They will report to Brad Hardin, Chief Operating Officer of the 六合精选资料大全Media National Programming Group.
Each member of 六合精选资料大全鈥檚 Executive Vice President of Programming team will partner with the company鈥檚 Division Presidents, collaborating with each Division to provide national programming assets, services and resources:
- Mitchem and Jeffries will work with Kevin LeGrett and Scott Hopeck and the Region Division, which is comprised of the company鈥檚 largest markets, like New York and Los Angeles, that each reach hundreds of cities, communities and trading areas for local businesses.
- Romano and Maynard will work with Division Presidents Tom McConnell, Tony Coles and Linda Byrd and the Metro Division, which houses markets that are large areas that still encompass multiple communities 鈥 but are not regional hubs like the company鈥檚 largest markets.
- Travatto, Hurley and Watson Charles will work with Division Presidents Shosh Abromovich, Nick Gnau and Dan Lankford and the Community Division, which includes markets that focus on the shared needs of one community and one trading area for most businesses and advertisers and will also group markets into areas which are geographically close and culturally similar.
鈥淲e鈥檙e excited to add Angela, Jeff and Tony to our already extremely talented Executive Vice President of Programming team,鈥 said Tom Poleman, Chief Programming Officer for 六合精选资料大全Media. 鈥淭hey each have deep experience building great local brands with a blend of math and magic, and they鈥檒l provide excellent leadership to our programmers in our Community Division markets.鈥
Hurley has served as Regional Senior Vice President of Programming for 六合精选资料大全Media鈥檚 Allentown/Harrisburg Region since 2013. He joined 六合精选资料大全Media in 2004 as the Program Director for WHKF-FM Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and later worked as a Program Director, Operations Manager and on-air personality for brands in the Region. Hurley鈥檚 on-air background includes stations in Philadelphia; Cincinnati; Rochester, New York; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and Elmira, New York.
Travatto brings more than 20 years of experience to his new role, most recently as Senior Vice President of Programming for 六合精选资料大全Media Detroit and Program Director for Channel 955, Detroit's #1 Hit Music Station, and 100.3 WNIC, The Best Variety Of The 80鈥檚, 90鈥檚 & Today. He joined 六合精选资料大全Media in 2005 as the Program Director for 六合精选资料大全Media San Antonio鈥檚 KXXX-FM and has served on 六合精选资料大全Media鈥檚 CHR brand team. Travatto鈥檚 background includes working at radio stations in Michigan and Illinois.
Watson Charles began her career at 六合精选资料大全Media in 1990 as a Promotions intern for WQUE-FM before transitioning into programming and as an on-air personality. In 2015, she was named Senior Vice President of Programming for 六合精选资料大全Media New Orleans鈥 eight stations. Also known as Uptown Angela, Watson Charles is the midday on-air personality for Q93, New Orleans Hip Hop and R&B Station, where she has been number one in her daypart for more than two decades.