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radio broadcasting veteran, Kathy joined Cumulus Broadcasting
in March, 2003 to lead thier 8 station cluster in Toledo,
OH. One of Cumulus' top markets, Kathy's priority will
be to maximize the revenue conversion on the excellent
brands Cumulus controls in Toldeo. Kathy was highly
interested in joining a growth company on the come and
hopes to apply her experience to increase value for
Cumulus shareholders. Prior to joining Cumulus, she
most recently served as Executive Vice President, Market
Manager for Clear Channel in Chicago where she was responsible
for implementing the cluster as a single business unit
strategy developed by AMFM and continued by CCU. She
supervised over 300 employees while the cluster generated
$141M in annual revenues. As Vice President and GM of
WTJM-FM "Jammin' 105" in New York City, where
after helping to launch the station in December 1998,
she orchestrated a 148% revenue increase. Prior to Jammin'
105, she was the General Manager of New York's Q104.3-FM,
which emerged as New York's only classic rock station
after a competitive format challenge which resulted
in 35 year heritage rocker WNEW leaving the format.
Kathy's other experience includes General Manager positions
with KLOL-FM in Houston and KBEQ-AM/FM in Kansas City,
as well as Station Manager experience at KCFX-FM in
Kansas City. Her Chicago background includes five years
as General Sales Manager of WLUP-AM/FM. Kathy's radio
career began in Detroit as an Account Executive with
Major Market Radio Detroit and WXYZ-AM.
"I still consider myself an agent for change,"
says Stinehour. "We have been through dramatic
changes in the radio industry since consolidation and
while some have been painful, the majority have been
for
the best. We are going to be living and working in a
constant state of "whitewater" as noted author
Steven Covey describes it. Those
leaders
able to embrace change and put it to work positively
will be successful and those who resist will be gone."
She says that deregulation has allowed radio to offer
customers better products and the sort of integrated
marketing programs that were previously unavailable.
"With each year that passes, more and more customers
are learning to take advantage of what consolidation
has to offer and many
are
seeing significant market share growth as a result."
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