Monday, April 21st 2008
Premiere Radio Names EVP Sales
Contact: Amir Forester
818-461-5404
CAROL TERAKAWA JOINS PREMIERE RADIO NETWORKS AS EVP SALES
LOS ANGELES, April 21, 2007 - Premiere Radio Networks today announced that Carol Terakawa, formerly Regional Vice President of Sales/Southwest Region at Yahoo!, has been named Executive Vice President of Sales. Starting May 5, she will be based in Los Angeles and will report to Premiere Radio President, Charlie Rahilly.
In her new position, Terakawa will be responsible for all aspects of advertising sales and sponsorships. She will oversee six regional offices and a national sales team of more than 60. With her ability to integrate online media into the overall media mix, she will broaden and enhance Premiere's existing capabilities.
Rahilly stated, "Carol's innate understanding of reaching consumers via audio, as well as her impressive creativity in connecting with them digitally, makes her the ideal person to lead our team."
"I'm thrilled to be joining the Premiere Radio team and to build upon the caliber of Premiere's dominant radio personalities and content as it reaches a vast audience," said Terakawa. "It's an exciting time to see audio content converging online and offline with consumers' media behaviors today."
Prior to joining Premiere Radio, Terakawa worked at Yahoo! for seven years where she started as the Executive Director of Sales for the Southwest region and also served as the Category Development Officer for the entertainment division during its time of unprecedented online business growth. During her tenure there, she and her team also launched the first Yahoo! movie advertisements with Disney and Universal Pictures.
In addition, Terakawa worked in radio for over a decade, starting as an Account Executive at Republic Radio. She then worked locally at KQLZ-FM/Pirate Radio, KFI/KOST/KACE and became GSM of KOST/KACE during the Cox years, then KOST/KBIG when AM/FM took over, and continued there through the Clear Channel acquisition of AM/FM in 2000.
She is a member of the board of directors of the advertising organization ThinkLA as well as NAMME.
Terakawa is a graduate of the University of Southern California and holds a B.A. degree in Broadcast Journalism and International Relations. She currently resides in Burbank with her husband, Roy Furukawa and their daughter, Alyssa.
Premiere Radio Networks, Inc., a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications (NYSE:CCU), syndicates 90 radio programs and services to more than 5,000 radio affiliations and reaches over 190 million listeners weekly. Premiere Radio is the number one radio network in the country and features the following personalities: Rush Limbaugh, Jim Rome, Casey Kasem, Ryan Seacrest, Glenn Beck, Bob (Kevoian) & Tom (Griswold), Delilah, Steve Harvey, Blair Garner, George Noory, John Boy and Billy, Donald Trump, Big Tigger, Bob Costas and others. Premiere is based in Sherman Oaks, California, with 13 offices nationwide.
