John Catlett named RFE/RL Chief Operating Officer: (January 17th, 2008) John N Catlett has been named Chief Operating Officer of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Mr Catlett has been involved in broadcasting production, sales and marketing, engineering and management for over 35 years. He managed FM radio stations for CBS in Chicago and New York City.
Since 1984 he has worked outside the US to develop new stations in the North Sea, Ireland, and London, and the Metromedia International stations in Eastern Europe and Russia. He was the final manager of the legendary Radio Luxembourg, and he introduced the first private radio stations to India in 2001 for Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. In recent years, Mr Catlett has advised radio and television stations working with Internews in Russia, Indonesia and Afghanistan and with private companies in India and China. He has taught advertising, marketing and media management at the business school of the University of Connecticut and for the MBA program of the University of the Sacred Heart in Luxembourg. A graduate of Princeton University, where he remains a trustee of the student-operated radio station, he also holds an MBA degree from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Mr Catlett will take up his new duties early in February. Other senior appointments announced by RFE/RL today include the following: Ricki Green joins RFE/RL as Senior Editor responsible for video and visual strategy. She is a media executive, television producer, and award-winning broadcast journalist with over 25 years of experience in non-fiction television. John O'Sullivan will become Executive Editor, setting editorial vision and direction for the organization. He has served as a senior editor at the London Times and the Daily Telegraph, and as a special adviser to Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher. Julia Ragona has been named Chief Broadcast Operations Officer. She has been acting in this capacity since October, 2007. (Source: RFE/RL via Media Network Blogs) Best regards, MD. AZIZUL ALAM AL-AMIN E-65, GOURHANGA, GHORAMARA RAJSHAHI-6100 BANGLADESH ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
