R.I.P.: Maryland Broadcaster Pam A. Hall

Pam Hall

Pamela Audrey Hall, a former radio station program director who was active nationally in jazz and contemporary gospel music circles, died of cancer Jan. 21 in Baltimore.

She was 57, according to The Baltimore Sun.

She was named Black Radio's Music Director of the Year in 1992. Billboard Magazine also nominated her as music director of the year.

Hall earned a bachelor of arts in communication from Howard University, where she graduated with honors. She went into radio as an undergraduate and worked at the campus radio station, WHBC-AM, and was the assistant music director at WHUR-FM.

Family members said she lived in New York City while in her 20s and was music director at WBLS-FM, part of Inner City Broadcasting.

She was later a promotions representative for Prelude Records and was then a regional promotions manager and artists and repertoire representative at Arista Records, also in New York.

In 2011, she became program director for Morgan State's WEAA-FM.

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