President, Radio Division
Mr. Mayo has been President of Radio One’s Radio Division since August 2007. Prior to joining Radio One, Mr. Mayo served as a consultant to the Company through his firm Mayomedia, a media consulting firm specializing in urban markets. Mr. Mayo has held numerous senior management positions during his 30 plus years of experience in the industry. He began as a program director and he helped create one of the largest urban stations in the country, WRKS-FM, in New York. Three years after joining the programming staff at WRKS-FM, Mr. Mayo became Vice President and General Manager of that station. In 1988, he and a group of partners founded Broadcast Partners. While Mr. Mayo served as President, Broadcast Partners grew into an eleven-station, publicly traded company with stations in Dallas, New York, Chicago and Charlotte. In 1995, Mr. Mayo sold his share of Broadcast Partners and founded Mayomedia. In 2003, he was recruited back to New York to become the Senior Vice President and Market Manager for Emmis Radio. He left Emmis Radio in 2006 to resume his consulting career and began working with Radio One in July 2006 as a consultant.
