Jim Richards Email & Phone Number

West

Responsible for being the key resource to our radio, TV, and other media partners, as well as the hospital throughout the planning and execution stages of their fundraising events in addition to encouraging year round fundraising efforts between the media partners and hospital. Collaborate with media partners to create and present 35 multi-hour/multi-day radio and TV broadcasts to raise funds and increase awareness of our network hospitalsThese radiothons, telethons, and mediathons resulted in an increase in donations for West Area, from $7.423M in 2016 to $7.609M in 2017Plan and present media partners’ sales teams with research data, sales collateral, and best practices to maximize sponsorships to benefit both the hospital and the broadcasterAir talent coaching sessions provided before and during event, with tactics being evaluated and changed based on real time analysis of donor behaviorsInstituted a company-wide initiative to provide texting for our media events – this tool increased online giving from $74,000 in Q4 of 2016 to $147,000 in Q4 of 2017

San Francisco Bay Area

OM/PD of AAA KFOG and Rock KSAN (The Bone).Increased overall audience on both stations to highest levels in years (700,000+ each) by utilizing analytics to determine best songs to expose to each station’s target audience Direct oversight of all music initiatives, from smaller “Private Concerts” to large venue events like ”Concert For Kids” and “Bone Bash” Curator of annual CD featuring acoustic performances from well-known artists like Train, David Gray, Death Cab For Cutie, Spandau Ballet, Vance Joy, and The Fray for KFOG’s Live From The Archives charity project benefitting Bay Area Food BanksCreated a series of videotaped off-site acoustic performances at Whetstone Wine Cellars in Napa, CA during BottleRock weekend featuring many of the festival performers like Cage The Elephant, Young The Giant, Michael Franti & Spearhead, and ZZ WardGenerated international publicity for the “World Famous” KFOG by collaborating with the morning show for #BoobProject – a charity song for breast cancer awareness featuring artists like Florence + The Machine, Hozier, and The Grateful Dead

Greater Chicago Area

OM of heritage Classic Rocker The Loop and Alternative 101WKQX.Launched Alternative WKQX (Q87.7) on a low-power TV station, where we produced a cume of 900,000+ within first year, earning a 2.1 share (P6+) and #2 ranking M18-34 by focusing on discovery of new music in a format not found on terrestrial dialResurrected Alternative WRXP/New York and achieved a 2.2 share (P6+) and 1.5m cume within first 90 days in a manner similar to WKQX’s launch – spotlighting the relevant current songs for the target audience Created many revenue-generating music initiatives that remain today – PIQNIQ summer concert, The Night We Stole Christmas concert, No Dough Show concert series, and Queued Up Artist Showcases WKQX was the first U.S. Alternative station to add Lorde’s “Royals” to playlist and first station to add unsigned KONGOS – which was a significant factor in their getting signed by Epic Records Drove WLUP’s ratings to its highest P6+ share in PPM history (4.0) and began beating competitor WDRV in 2013 in the P25-54 and M25-54 demos

Greater Seattle Area

Created unique sound and presentation for sign-on hybrid Alternative / HotACQuarterly ratings grew to 12th P25-54 and 8th W25-54 based on Summer 2011 quarter (beating competitors KNDD/13th and KMTT/19th P25-54)Oversight of all listener-facing channels of the brand, including digital and social (Facebook fans increased from 1960 at time of hire to 12,500 in November)Cume grew from 393,100 in Q1 to over 500,000 in Q3

Greater Los Angeles Area

Rose from Product Manager to VP/Content, acting as Interactive’s embedded stakeholder inside LA Times’ and KTLA’s digital departments to implement corporate initiatives while advocating for the needs and requests of the local business unitsOversaw the launch of beta websites for music (Cisum.com), entertainment (Hollywood101.com), and health (HealthKey.com) as verticals to aggregate and monetize the vast amount of Tribune-generated contentAdditional duties included building relationships with labels, artists and tour promoters to utilize Tribune's various TV, digital and print assets for marketing and promotional efforts - created multi-channel promotional platforms for the debut of Tom Petty’s “Mojo” CD and Ozzy Osbourne's tour

Greater San Diego Area

In addition to being the Regional VP/Programming for the SD market, also served as day-to-day Program Director of KIOZ, KGB, and 91X. Oversaw all programming and promotions for 13 radio stations - the largest cluster for any US operator.Served as Rock Brand Manager, working with various rock stations nationally as an in-house consultant.Launched My94.1 (HAC) and US95.7 (Country) – each of which beat their in-format competitors in target demos within three books.Initiated discussions and directed negotiations with the San Diego Chargers to place them on KIOZ, then built the infrastructure for game day broadcasts.Created, negotiated and administrated several Clear Channel multi-station rock promotions with artists Metallica, Kid Rock, and Motley Crue.Produced nationally-syndicated radio shows promoting new releases and/or tours for Aerosmith, KISS, Def Leppard, Offspring, and Jimmy Eat World.Heavily involved in the conceptualization of corporate-wide music-focused web initiatives for Clear Channel’s Sneak Peek, Stripped, and New!

San Francisco Bay Area

Ran day-to-day operations for KSJO and KUFX. Launched the first Classic Alternative station - Channel 104.9 (KCNL).

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

Various roles including WOFX OM; WEBN PD and Dir. FM OpsWEBN Program Director duties added six months after arriving to takeover Classic Rock WOFXElevated shortly after that to Director of FM Operations to oversee the aforementioned two rock stations, plus Alternative Channel Z and Hot AC start-up Mix 94.1Part of Jacor's "inner circle" of in-house consultants to provide resources and support for company's newly acquired stations at time of rapid expansion

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