Barry Mayo President, Radio Divison Mr. Mayo brings over 30 years of operating experience to Radio One, including almost eight as President of a successful, publicly-traded pure play radio group, Broadcast Partners. (BPIX: Nasdaq). He began as a Program Director and his reputation as an innovative radio programmer spread quickly throughout the industry. In the 1980s, 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. Originally a five-station network, Broadcast Partners grew under Mr. Mayo's guidance into an eleven-station, publicly traded company with stations in Dallas, New York, Chicago and Charlotte. In 1995, Mayo sold his share of Broadcast Partners and founded Mayomedia, a media consulting firm specializing in urban markets. 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.