Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Maloney Named AccuRadio EVP/Programming

Long-time AccuRadio program director Paul Maloney has been promoted to the full-time position of Executive Vice President/Programming, AccuRadio CEO Kurt Hanson and COO John Gehron announced Monday.

"For the past 13 years, Paul has skillfully managed one of the toughest dual positions in our industry — serving as both Executive Editor of 'RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter' and VP/Programming for AccuRadio," Gehron said, "and we believe that permitting Paul to focus full-time on AccuRadio will allow us to take that service to a new level of growth.

Paul Maloney
Maloney began his radio programming career at one of the nation's best-known student-operated commercial radio stations, WPGU/Champaign-Urbana. He eventually went on to program KFMZ/Columbia, MO, flipping the heritage AOR station to Alternative, and bringing its 12+ ratings above a 10 share before joining RAIN in the summer of 2000 as a journalist.

As for AccuRadio, it evolved out of a series of RAIN articles in 2000 through 2002 intended to show broadcasters how they could build a multichannel, personalizable Internet radio service. Beginning with three channels of music -- "Swingin' Pop Standards," "Modern Rock Classics," and "Piano Jazz" -- AccuRadio now offers over 975 personalizable channels of rock, pop, classical, jazz, country, R&B, Broadway, and more, targeting P35-64 listeners.

Maloney is responsible for supervising the programming of all 975 channels, working with a team of in-house music programmers and outside programming consultants.

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