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Margaret Mercer

Margaret Mercer was for many years program director of WQXR in New York, the most listened-to classical music station in the United States, and at the time of her directorship under the ownership of The New York Times Company .


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American Country Countdown

In 1974 when the show was up and running, Bustany tapped Bob Kingsley, who had been program director at country station KLAC-Los Angeles, to be ACC's producer.

Art Good

In 1981, while he was the Program Director for a struggling Adult Contemporary-format station in San Diego named KIFM, he began an evening program of jazz-tinged instrumentals entitled Lites Out San Diego.

Beautiful Assassin

My second project is acting as Program Director for Fairfield University's (CT) new low-residency MFA in Creative Writing.

Bill Shirk

Shirk was the Station Manager, Sales Manager, Program Director, Production Manager and Afternoon Disc Jockey on WERK Radio, in Muncie, Indiana from 1968 to 1972.

Chris Rathaus

From Detroit, Rathaus moved to Pittsburgh to become production director and assistant program director at Westinghouse’s KDKA Pittsburgh.

CKIS-FM

At the time, station GM/program director Pat Cardinal cited the move was "a result of listener feedback. The audience has been telling us that they want no DJs on Jack. They want more music." In November 2005, Cardinal defended his decision in an interview with Michael Hainsworth of Report on Business Television and stated why he doesn't see commercial-free iPods and satellite radio as a threat to a non-DJ format.

Daniela Sanzone

She is also a diversity consultant for the company Focus Communication, and is the Program Director at Espresso Manifesto Arts Collective, an initiative founded by Canadian-Italian musician Daniela Nardi and herself.

Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption

She is a recipient of the National CASA Association Kappa Alpha Theta Program Director of the Year and the national Angels in Adoption award from the Congressional Coalition on Adoption.

Detroit JazzStage

The packed audience included Linda Yohn (program director at WEMU-FM), Mark Stryker (The Detroit Free Press music critic) and many of Detroit's top jazz musicians.

Fred Kent

He was Program Director for the Mayor's Council on the Environment in New York City under Mayor John Lindsay.

Gary Bryan

He is a veteran broadcaster, having served as program director at such stations as KKRZ ("Z100") in Portland, Oregon, which he put on the air in 1984, KUBE in Seattle, Washington, which under his guidance achieved all-time record FM ratings for the market in 1988.

Gilles Marchal

Discovered by Georges Chatelain, his producer, who signed (with Jack Robinson as a co-producer) a contract with Disc' AZ and Lucien Morisse, who was then the program director at Europe 1.

Greg Ion

Ion was soccer marketer for Adidas and is Program Director of their ESP youth program.

Hank Goldberg

In 1992, following weeks of Hurricane Andrew aftermath that dominated all the local market stations, Goldberg opted to interview guests Dolphins coach Don Shula to talk football and novelist/screenwriter Elmore Leonard when WIOD's program director insisted he talk only about Hurricane Andrew, three weeks after the storm.

Jack Ankerson

Ankerson worked for several years as a sports and program director at WTAR radio station in Norfolk, Virginia

Jane Chen

She spent several years as the Program Director of a startup HIV/AIDS nonprofit in China (Chi Heng Foundation), and worked for the Clinton Foundation’s HIV/AIDS Initiative in Tanzania.

John Garabedian

By 1971, John was a program director at WMEX/1510 (now WUFC), and worked with well-known Boston-area disc jockey Arnie "Woo-Woo" Ginsburg.

John T. Sheridan

His previous duties include being Deputy Director, National Reconnaissance Office, and Program Executive Officer and System Program Director for Space Radar, Chantilly, Virginia.

Josh Mora

Currently, Mora is the Program Director for both the Sports Marketing and Media Online Bachelor of Science Degree and the Sports Marketing and Media Campus Bachelor of Science Degree at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida.

KDKB

Dixon as the program director and Jonathan L as assistant program director, music director, and evening personality.

Kęstutis Kėvalas

On 8 February 2010 he became the program director of Radio Maria in Lithuania.

KFAV

In 2007, KFAV program director Mike Thomas was recognized by New Music Weekly magazine as the Country Program Director of the Year at the New Music Awards.

KFMB-FM

San Diego in the early 1970s had three music stations and was about to gain a fourth, so KFMB AM program director Bobby Rich and station manager Paul Palmer concocted a super high energy Top 40 format to challenge market leader KCBQ.

KUUU

Program Director Kevin Cruise and producer TJ Bates (The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency and Bridezillas) are behind this project.

KXOA

By February 1980, the station was back to Top 40 with new Program Director Terry Nelson returning to Sacramento from KFRC in San Francisco.

Lawrence Tanter

In addition to his duties with the Lakers, Tanter is also the program director for public jazz radio station KKJZ.

Maurice Machenbaum

In 2000 he became Program Director for Latin America and the Caribbean for Terre des hommes Lausanne, Switzerland's largest independent child-focused NGO.

Naked Eyes

According to Denis McNamara who was the program director at New Music station WLIR during the bands heyday this has led to a "curiosity" about the group over the years.

National Civil Rights Museum

Bailey worked with Chuck Scruggs, program director of WDIA and attorney D'Army Bailey, to raise funds to "Save the Lorraine" in the newly formed Martin Luther King Memorial Foundation, and bought the motel for $144,000, following foreclosure in December 1982.

One Cup

Featuring then Foreign Minister José Ramos-Horta, Oxfam Program Director Keryn Clark and Timorese coffee farmers, One Cup attempts to illustrate benefits offered by the international fair trade system.

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Lincoln Stein, PhD - Program Director, Informatics and Bio-computing

Oprah Radio

Cantillo had program director experience at stations including KFYI, KTAR, and KGME.

Pablo Eisenberg

He then spent two years as Program Director of Operation Crossroads Africa before going to work as Director of Pennsylvania Operations for the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) in Washington, D.C. He subsequently became Deputy Director of the Research and Demonstration division at the Office of Economic Opportunity.

Rachel Carter

She has also just been named the program director for "The Classics Live," a touring troupe that brings classic works of drama (e.g. Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, a dramatic adaptation of Beowulf, and Antigone) before a variety of audiences.

Ron O'Quinn

In 1966, O'Quinn left WFUN to become Program Director of a new radio station, Swinging Radio England, that was located off the coast of England in the North Sea.

Sam Zniber

The UK’s Chrysalis Group recruited Sam Zniber in 2001 as Program Director of the Galaxy stations in Manchester and Newcastle (now Capital FM).

Samori Marksman

He was also the Program Director of radio station WBAI, 99.5 FM in New York City.

Stories of a Stranger

# "Program Director" (with Rasun) (Marc Roberge, Jerry Harrison, Glen Ballard)– 5:44

Swanstrom

Niklas Swanström (born 1970), Program Director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program

The New WKRP in Cincinnati

Among the other notable actors that were cast members on the show were Mykelti Williamson as program director Donovan Aderhold, Tawny Kitaen as late night D.J. Mona Loveland, Kathleen Garrett as D.J. Dana Burns, and French Stewart, who joined the cast in the second season as morning D.J. Razor Dee.

Tõnu Kalam

Since 1984, he has been associated with the Kneisel Hall summer chamber music festival in Blue Hill, Maine, where he served for thirteen years in a variety of administrative and musical capacities including Executive Director, Summer Program Director, Artist-Faculty pianist and chamber music coach.

WHAV

Al Taylor, recruited from WCAU Philadelphia (Present Day WPHT), and a former newspaperman who had interviewed Adolf Hitler, would become the first program director, and Herbert W. Brown became chief engineer.

WNSW

Some of the airpeople included Johnny Knox (who was program director and operations manager the first year of operation), John Von Soosten, Chuck Leonard, Danny Stiles, Julius LaRosa, among others.

WQNO

The program director who developed the format was William L. Armstrong who later served as a U. S. Senator from Colorado.

WSOC-FM

In 1980, Bob Call took the job as Program Director at KYGO Denver and WSOC-FM hired Bill Dollar as its morning host.

WUSL

WPBS changed calls to WUSL, which stood for "US-1", and Program Director Jim Nettleton instituted a Soft Adult Contemporary format mixed with standards which had crossed over to the 1960s/1970's pop charts (eg Engelbert Humperdinck, Barbra Streisand, etc.

WVOL

In 1970, when Heidelberg was acting program director of WVOL, he was the first person to employ Oprah Winfrey, then a local high school student, as a broadcaster.

WYLD-FM

After Program Director and morning jock Michael Greene (formerly of WTIX-AM) read the sign-off announcement, the station called it a day with "Her Majesty," the very last track from Abbey Road.

XM Classics

The program director for XM Classics was Martin Goldsmith (previously the longtime host of the public radio series Performance Today).