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Michael Walsh is President/Chief Operating Officer of Interep. He was named to this position in July 2007 and reports to Dave Kennedy, Interep’s CEO and Vice Chairman.
As President/COO, Walsh oversees all of Interep’s radio representation firms, as well as Net Solutions, Interep’s unwired network division. He works to strategically align all of the radio operating companies to achieve maximum performance for Interep’s client radio stations, drive share growth of existing radio budgets, increase new business revenue and identify key growth prospects for the company. He also assists Kennedy in carrying out the company’s strategic objectives in the area of media integration, particularly as it relates to new and complementary audio technologies.
Walsh has been in the radio industry for more than 20 years. Before being named to his current position, he was President of Interep’s Cumulus Major Market Sales (formerly Susquehanna Radio Sales).
Prior to joining Interep in 1998 to manage the national sales efforts of the Susquehanna stations, Walsh was National Sales Manager for WINS-AM/WNEW-FM in New York for four years. Walsh also worked for Interep from 1990-1994, during which time he was promoted to Regional Vice President/Director of Sales for the Group W Radio Sales Philadelphia office. He began his career in radio as a producer for WABC-AM Radio’s Sportstalk.
Before beginning his radio sales career, Walsh was an Account Executive and Client Service Representative for The Arbitron Company in New York from 1986 to 1990. | 