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From the Suburbs to Big Time Management

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John1

R&R reports Matt Mills is retiring as VP/GM of Greater Media's Boston cluster. Mills started out in sales at country WEEZ in Chester, then went on to sales & management at country WRCP in Philadelphia before leaving for Y100 in Miami in 1977. Guess he crossed paths with Lee Masters who started as a teenager at WBUX in Doylestown (as Jerry Masters) in the late '60's, then also did weekends at WRCP while still at WBUX, ended up as a jock on WNBC in 1977, a country programmer in Tulsa, and eventually in management at MTV, VH-1 and GM of E! television. I forget where Kevin Fennessey started - was it WAAT in Trenton? - but he would certainly fit in the category, too, and I'm sure could think of some others who went from local radio to management.

Who else started on small suburban stations and went on to higher management broadcasting positions elsewhere?
 
From the Suburbs

Greater Media is "big time?"
Salem is "big time?"

The question should be who else started on suburban stations and went to work for companies the run once-good stations into the ground?
 
While not in management, I was always surprised by the advancement of sports guy Tom Mees. He started in radio at little 'ol WSER in Elkton, MD, a 1KW daytimer (where I also got my start). Then he moved to WILM in Wilmington. His next step was sports news anchor at ESPN. Not a management move, but a good move for a young guy raised in Elkton.

> R&R reports Matt Mills is retiring as VP/GM of Greater
> Media's Boston cluster. Mills started out in sales at
> country WEEZ in Chester, then went on to sales & management
> at country WRCP in Philadelphia before leaving for Y100 in
> Miami in 1977. Guess he crossed paths with Lee Masters who
> started as a teenager at WBUX in Doylestown (as Jerry
> Masters) in the late '60's, then also did weekends at WRCP
> while still at WBUX, ended up as a jock on WNBC in 1977, a
> country programmer in Tulsa, and eventually in management at
> MTV, VH-1 and GM of E! television. I forget where Kevin
> Fennessey started - was it WAAT in Trenton? - but he would
> certainly fit in the category, too, and I'm sure could think
> of some others who went from local radio to management.
>
> Who else started on small suburban stations and went on to
> higher management broadcasting positions elsewhere?
>
 
David Bernstein worked early in his career at WSER, and went on to program WOR and WPRO; Rick Brancadora was News Director for WTTM, he's now an owner of WIBG; Joe Piscopo jocked at WBUD when they were still Top 40; Bob Hamilton started at WBCB then onto WBUX; Tom Moran worked at 'BCB right after WCMC in Wildwood, then WKDN, then WIP; lots of big names worked at WAAT and WMID, among them Bill Todd, Humble Harve, Dean Tyler (worked at WAAT and WAMS)Ray Gilmore worked at WAAT, then Wibbage, ultimately working on the air and programming in NYC; being in the shadow of great radio, this region inspired a lot of great radio people to be great on the air and move up. I started at WAAT which became WTNJ, Jack Pinto was working at WNEW on the weekends at the time, our PD, Lane Rogers made it to NYC, programmed KMEO in Phoenix.

Let's not forget that Ernie Kovacs worked on the air at WTTM, and, talk pioneer Joe Pyne started at WBUD.
 
Fennessy,

A name from the 60's just popped into my head (there's a lot of empty space there for things to pop up!). Jack Popejoy worked at WNRK and then his next stop was KYW. If you remember the name, did he move on to better things or did he just vanish from the radio landscape?

> David Bernstein worked early in his career at WSER, and went
> on to program WOR and WPRO; Rick Brancadora was News
> Director for WTTM, he's now an owner of WIBG; Joe Piscopo
> jocked at WBUD when they were still Top 40; Bob Hamilton
> started at WBCB then onto WBUX; Tom Moran worked at 'BCB
> right after WCMC in Wildwood, then WKDN, then WIP; lots of
> big names worked at WAAT and WMID, among them Bill Todd,
> Humble Harve, Dean Tyler (worked at WAAT and WAMS)Ray
> Gilmore worked at WAAT, then Wibbage, ultimately working on
> the air and programming in NYC; being in the shadow of great
> radio, this region inspired a lot of great radio people to
> be great on the air and move up. I started at WAAT which
> became WTNJ, Jack Pinto was working at WNEW on the weekends
> at the time, our PD, Lane Rogers made it to NYC, programmed
> KMEO in Phoenix.
>
> Let's not forget that Ernie Kovacs worked on the air at
> WTTM, and, talk pioneer Joe Pyne started at WBUD.
>
 
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