Council of Advisors
The members of the council and their hometown areas are Ann
Arnold (Austin-San Antonio), Eddie
Barker (East Texas-Paris), Paul
Berlin (Houston-Beaumont) Chuck
Blore (At large-Los Angeles), Kent
Burkhart (At large-Florida), Al
Caldwell (Beaumont-Houston), Ken
Dowe (Dallas-Fort
Worth), Chuck
Dunaway (Houston-Beaumont),
Clint Formby
(Panhandle-Hereford), Tom
Glade (San Antonio-Austin) Steve
Hicks (Austin-San Antonio), Jo
Interrante (Dallas-Fort
Worth), Jim
Phillips (West Texas-El Paso) and
Bill Young
(Houston-Beaumont).
(Click on a name to read biography)
Biographies of the Council of Advisors
(Listed
in alphabetical order)
Since 1987, Ann has served as the executive director of the Texas Association of Broadcasters and holds the unique distinction of being named the first female press secretary to a Texas Governor during the administration of Mark White. A former capitol correspondent for United Press International, Ann also headed the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s capitol bureau, won a Headliners award as a reporter for the Dallas Times Herald and worked briefly for the Washington Post. She attended Arlington State College (now UT Arlington) and graduated with honors from the University of Texas at Austin. She was honored in September of this year with the Freedom of Information Foundation’s James Madison Award. In 1993, Ann received the national Sunshine Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. She and her husband, Reg, live in Austin.
Eddie Barker
currently broadcasts on a morning radio show at both KPLT-AM 1490 in
Paris, Texas.
He began his broadcasting career at KMAC while a junior in high school in
San Antonio in 1943. Broadcasting
high school football games led to his announcing football on the old Humble Oil
Southwest Conference. Ves Box of
KRLD hired Eddie and he moved to Dallas and go on the air when KRLD-TV went on
the air on December 3, 1949. Eddie
worked on both radio and TV in the news department and later became news
director. He is a former President of the Radio-Television News
Directors Association (RTNDA). Eddie Barker started the first full time talk
radio station at KRLD in 1960. He
says that the most interesting story he covered was the JFK assassination.
He served as CBS stringer for many years before the network opened a
southwest bureau.
Paul Berlin began his broadcasting career in Memphis at WHHM then moved to Houston in 1950. He has worked at KNUZ, KQUE, KSEV and was, until recently, the midday air personality at KBME. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland honored Paul in 1995. The first ever recipient of the “Radio Personality of the Year” award from the American Women in Radio and Television, (AWRT), he's also a 1990 Marconi Award nominee and in 1997 was a nominee for the Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago. He and his wife, Inez, live in Houston.
Chuck Blore lives in Hollywood and is the head of the Chuck Blore Creative Services Company. Early in his career, Chuck Blore was hired by the legendary Gordon McLendon at San Antonio’s KTSA AM. Chuck is the only person ever to have won both of the most coveted awards The Television Promotion Industry can bestow, The Professional Achievement Award, and induction into The Hall Of Fame. He is the recipient of many broadcasting awards. Chuck Blore, and his equally talented partner, Ted Field, head The Chuck Blore Company, which Madison Avenue called, “Probably the most awarded company in the history of broadcast advertising.” As, creative head of The Blore Group, Chuck created and produced the memorable "Reach Out And Touch Someone" commercials for AT&T.
Kent Burkhart has enjoyed a long and distinguished radio career in station ownership and group management, as a satellite and network pioneer and a national and international radio advisor and consultant. Kent has held ownership positions and served in many executive and management positions with radio stations and organizations in Austin, Charlotte, Jacksonville, Columbia, Greenville, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Denver, Los Angeles, Portland, Bergen County, New Jersey, Omaha, New Orleans, Houston and Miami. One of the four founders of Satellite Music Network, he has held board seats on two NASDAQ companies and many private companies as well. Kent has received numerous prestigious awards in the field of broadcasting. He has written numerous articles for prestigious industry publications and lectured at many colleges and universities. He currently lives in Key Biscayne, Florida and is a weekly columnist on his Web site, www.kentburkhart.com.
Al Caldwell is a broadcast veteran of 45 years. He moved to Beaumont in 1963 and has been an on air personality at KLVI since 1977. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. Al is married to Annette. They have three children and six grandchildren. He enjoys playing golf and watching college football.
Ken Dowe is the Chief Operating Officer for Service Broadcasting Corp. which owns and operates KKDA AM and FM, and KRNB in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Ken began his radio career as a high school deejay and worked in San Diego. He moved to Dallas in the early 1960s to work at KBOX then to Atlanta to WQXI. In 1963 Gordon McLendon brought Ken back to Dallas, to KLIF 1190. Ken served KLIF and McLendon in numerous capacities as Program Director, Operations Manager and National PD. He was the creator of DFW's first #1 rated FM station, KNUS. He served as Executive Vice President of the McLendon Corporation. After a decade, he left Dallas for several years to head up Bernie Waterman's KTSA in San Antonio where he created KTFM. Ken acquired his first radio station in Oklahoma City, KLTE, which became America's first "light rock" format. During the '80s, he owned and operated a small group of radio stations from San Jose to Shreveport before selling them a decade later. In 1993 Ken returned to the Dallas-Fort Worth area as Chief Operating Officer of Service Broadcasting Corp., joining his long time friend, Hymen Childs. Ken and his wife, Dottie, live in Dallas.
In 1998, after selling his Missouri radio stations, KIXQ, KMJC, KXDG and KSYN, Chuck retired from active broadcast management, ownership and programming. A forty-year veteran of the broadcasting industry, Chuck was born in Porum, Oklahoma. He graduated from Stephen F. Austin High School in Houston and immediately went to work at KBST in Big Spring, Texas. His career includes positions at KXYZ, KXOL, WRIT, KNUZ, WKY, WABC, KBOX, KLIF, KILT, WIXY, KAFM, KLBJ AM-FM and KHFI. From 1977 until 1979 he was co-owner of Radio Music Report. Chuck was minority partner in the ownership of KITE in Corpus Christi. Chuck and his partners bought and sold two radio stations, WMFX in Columbia, South Carolina and "Oldies 103" in Lexington, Kentucky. He and his partners acquired radio stations in Joplin, Missouri that they built into the fifth highest rated (Shares) cluster of Radio stations in the Unites States before selling them to Zimmer Radio. Chuck is the recipient of many awards and is listed in several national "Who's Who" publications. South Carolina's governor chose Chuck to serve as a South Carolina Athletic Commissioner. Chuck is the father of four children (son John passed away in 1996). His three daughters have presented him with six grand children and one great grand child. He married Kendall Alizon in 1982 when the two met while Chuck was lecturing on broadcasting at the University of Texas in Austin. They reside in Houston and travel extensively.
Clint Formby is the president of KPAN AM-FM and Hereford Cablevision Company in Hereford, and KTEM in Temple, Texas. A graduate of Texas Tech University, Clint also attended the University of Basel, Switzerland and University of Tennessee. Clint is a member of the nine person Telecommunication Infrastructure Fund Board for Texas. He is a former member and Chairman of the Board of Regents of Texas Tech University and Texas Tech University (Past-National/ Health Sciences Center (12-year member of Board), a former Chairman of the Radio Board of Directors of National State Association of Broadcasters. He is past president of Broadcast Education Association in America, president of the Associated Press Broadcasters, former President of the Texas Association of Broadcasters, served six years as a member of the Associated Press Corporate Board and was a member of the Select Committee on Study of Higher Education Governance in Texas as appointed by the Texas Coordinating Board. Clint served as Past President of the Texas Tech University Ex Students Association and retired after 18 years as a member of BMI. Clint is the only person to have served as President of the Texas Tech Student Association, President of the Texas Tech Ex Students Association and Chairman of the Texas Tech Board of Regents. In 1994 he was named the Texas Broadcaster of the Year by the Texas Association of Broadcasters (TAB) and was recognized as Texas Communicator of the Year (presented in all phases of media by Baptist General Convention of Texas). He is a Distinguished Alumnus of Texas Tech University and was named the Panhandle Citizen of Year by the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce and the Texas Pioneer Broadcaster of the Year by the Texas Association of Broadcasters in addition to being honored as Hereford Citizen of the Year. He has been inducted into the Texas Tech Mass Communications Hall of Fame and Texas Panhandle Broadcaster Hall of Fame. He also was named the Texas Association of Broadcasters (TBEF) Broadcaster of the Year. Clint served in the U.S. Army for 40 months in WWII, 18 months in European Theater. Born in McAdoo, Clint was married to the former Margaret Clark who was active in the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame until her recent death. They have four children.
Tom Glade has been in the broadcast industry for over 20 years. He began his broadcast career in Salt Lake City, Utah, as an Account Executive at KSL AM radio. Working his way through Sales and Sales Management he became Vice President /General Manager of Bonneville International Corporations flagship station, KSL AM. In 1987, he moved to Dallas, Texas to become Vice President/ General Manager of KZPS FM and KAAM AM. He assisted his company in the sale of KAAM and the purchase of KDGE. Glade accepted a position in Washington DC as Vice President/ General Manager of WVZ/WWZZ and WXTR in 1997. There, he assisted the launch of Bonneville International’s CHR station. Glade made his way back to Texas in June of this year. His present position is as Vice President/Market Manager for Clear Channel Radio - San Antonio, including the Clear Channel Communications flagship station, WOAI. Tom is married to Sandra Compton and they have four children (who all claim to be Texans). He earned a BA degree from Brigham Young University. Glade has held several leadership positions in the various state broadcast organizations.
Steve Hicks is the Chairman of Capstar Partners, LLC. Formed in June 2000, Capstar is a private investment company that participates in traditional investments and the funding of early stage technology companies. Before forming Capstar, Steve was Vice Chairman of AMFM Inc., the nation's largest owner and operator of radio stations, with over 450 radio stations in markets across the USA. Clear Channel Communications, Inc acquired AMFM for $23 billion in 2000. In 1996, Steve founded Capstar Broadcasting Corporation and led the company and its 350 radio stations to a successful public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in 1998. In August 1999 Capstar Broadcasting merged with Dallas-based Chancellor Media Corporation, in a transaction valued at $4.1 billion to create AMFM Inc. In addition to serving AMFM as Vice Chairman, Steve was President of its New Media division. In 1993, Steve co-founded, with Robert Sillerman, SFX Broadcasting, Inc., building it into a publicly traded industry leader and one of the five largest radio groups in the country. Steve left the company in mid-1996 to begin building the Capstar Broadcasting group. A 33-year veteran of the radio broadcasting industry, including 20 as a station owner, Steve has been named Radio Executive of the Year and as one of the 10 Most Powerful People in Radio by Radio Ink magazine. He has also been honored as Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young and as Broadcaster of the Year by the Texas Association of Broadcasters. Steve serves on numerous professional and charitable boards. He makes his home in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Donna, and three children.
Since 1995, Jo
Interrante has served as the Director of Communications, Affiliate Relations and
Liaison between the Affiliate Relations, Programming, News, Research, and
Marketing Departments for ABC Radio Networks
in Dallas. During her three decades long radio career, she's worked with
legendary radio stations and organizations like KRLD 1080, KFRC 610, KNUS-FM,
KVIL AM-FM, RKO Radio Networks and KNBR AM and KNAI FM.
Jo was the co-founder of IS Inc in Mill Valley, California. From
1981-1991, she was president of the broadcast production company which created
highly-produced, top quality programming for radio networks including: RKO Radio
Networks, United Stations, NBC, Westwood One, James Paul Brown Productions,
Youngstaff Limited (Japan) and Premiere Radio Network as well as various record
companies and recording artist management companies.
While at RKO Radio Networks in New York from 1979 -1981 she was the
co-founder and Vice President of Programming of the first new full-service News
Network in 40 years. RKO was the first network to deliver all products via
satellite. She developed style and presentation of demographically targeted
news, innovative lifestyle-based programming features, live and recorded
concerts, and music specials. She assembled and managed a top team of news
anchors, reporters, program hosts, and writers. Her memorable and award-winning
coverage and special programming included the last interview with John Lennon
and news coverage of his assassination.
Jim
Phillips is the chairman of the Community Board of Directors of Wells
Fargo Bank Texas, N.A. in El Paso and Chairman of the Governing Board of
Directors of the Sierra-Providence Healthcare Network. His long and
distinguished broadcasting career began in the 1960's when he served as the
sales manager for KFJZ AM-FM radio in Fort Worth. Born in Dallas, Jim graduated
from Texas Christian University in 1958 with a B.S. and served in the U.S. Air
Force. He and his wife, Nina, live in El Paso. They have one son. Jim is a
tireless and dedicated civic leader who serves on many boards and commissions.
His broadcasting career and interests also include sales, management and
ownership positions at KRIO in McAllen, KHEY in El Paso, KRMD in Shreveport,
KNSS in Reno, WOIC and WMMS in Columbia, South Carolina, KDUV in Brownsville,
KITE in Corpus Christi, Lone Star Broadcasting and Magic Media, Inc.
Bill Young (Former Advisor 2002-2005)
Bill Young began his career while in high school in Lufkin, Texas, working nights at KTRE AM/TV. He attended Baylor and worked as the evening DJ at WACO. It was in Waco later that he became the station’s Program Director and discovered a real passion for "creative production".
Bill left Texas briefly for a stint as morning man at Star Station’s KOIL in Omaha. With a son on the way and lonely for his home state, he returned to program KDOK in Tyler, building the small daytimer into a nationally recognized "school" for such personalities as Steve Lundy, Jimmy Rabbitt, Randy Robins and others. In early ‘66 he was hired as the head of programming at Gordon McLendon’s KILT AM/FM in Houston where he served for 15 years!
Joining the station in the midst of the famous KILT/KNUZ battles, he quickly organized a talented staff that led the station to a decade and a half of continued dominance in local ratings and repeated national recognition. Bill was, and is still a fan of great talent, so he assembled an all-star staff that eventually included Chuck Dunaway, Barry Kaye, Steve Lundy, Russ "The Weird Beard" Knight, Jon Rivers, John Young, Beau Weaver, Jim Wood, KO Bailey, Todd Wallace, and others. He developed the morning show concept, “Hudson & Harrigan” that has dominated Houston ratings for over three decades!
After leaving KILT, he founded Bill Young Productions in 1981 and led its growth to the leading Radio, TV and Print Production House in the nation, producing over 50,000 completed commercials a year! Bill sold the majority of his company to his employees in ‘96 but still serves on the Board of Directors and as VO/ Producer and Film Director.
Bill's early training under media pioneers Gordon McLendon, Don Keyes and Bill Stewart taught him the art of the "theater of the mind". This "visuality" allowed an easy transition into Film and TV Production. He directed over 100 music videos, including George Strait, Clay Walker, Clint Black, Billy Dean, Wynonna Judd and many others…commercials for Chevy Trucks, Wrangler, Exxon, Numerous Broadway shows, and also headed the team that handled all advertising for Randalls/Tom Thumb Supermarkets until Safeway’s consolidation in mid 2001
He has appeared as the voiceover for CBS Sports, Miller Lite, Fruit of the Loom, Purina, Paul McCartney World Tour, Budweiser, NBC-TV and was the weekly voice of ABC TV's "In Concert" for 2 years! Bill and his partner, Olympic Champion Mary Lou Retton, are Co-Producers of "Mary Lou’s Flip Flop Shop", a children’s TV series airing nationally on PBS. Bill is Associate Producer of the hit Broadway Musical "Jekyll & Hyde". He serves on the "Go Texan" board at the Texas Department of Agriculture and is a certified “Master Gardener”. He and wife Sharon have two sons and two granddaughters.
Biography of Larry Shannon
Larry Shannon is the
president of
First Strategy Corporation
and a partner in
The Wilson Shannon
Company, an entertainment productions partnership with offices in Hollywood
and Texas. Involved in the radio
broadcasting industry since the age of 16, he is the recipient of an Addy award
for commercial writing and production and has published two books, the most
recent titled, Making the Transition. During
and since the Presidential 2000 Election campaigns, Shannon has served as a
political analyst for the Dallas-Fort Worth CBS television station,
KTVT.
He owns and publishes daily radio industry online news publications,
RadioDailyNews.com
and TalkRadioDailyNews.com
and appears on radio as a guest and commentator from time to time. He is
the voice of "Overdrive Trucking News" heard on the
Overdrive
Radio Network and
XM Satellite Radio.
Shannon received a Golden Pen Award in January , 2002 from the
Dallas Morning
News and has written op/ed pieces for the Star-Telegram. He manages his family’s farm and ranch interests as the president of
Fourteen
Pines Corporation. After
attending the University of Texas at Arlington, in the early 1970's he continued
to work in the broadcast industry, in public affairs, and in real estate
development and sales. In the early 1980's, he moved to New York City where he
was lived and joined a small, independent company involved in wholesale marketing and
management in the ladies fashion industry.
Upon his return to Texas, he served as district director, administrative
assistant then chief-of-staff to former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker,
Jim Wright, from 1986 until 1998. Larry
also worked as the Director of Investor Relations and Communications with Arch
Petroleum, an independent oil and gas company headquartered in Fort Worth. In
1999 he returned full-time to
First Strategy
Corporation, The
Wilson ShannonCompany
and Fourteen Pines Corporation.
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