Charlotte Radio: Veteran Terri Avery OUT At Beasley Media

Terri Avery

Beasley Media Group/Charlotte Operations Manager Terri Avery has left the building. She also handled programming for Urban WPEG 97.9 FM /Power 98 and Urban AC WBAV 101.9 FM.

Prior to Beasley acquiring the cluster in December, she spent 14 years with former owner CBS Radio. In September, 2009, Avery was named the recipient of the first Annual MIW Radio Group "Achievement in Programming" Award. She was named the cluster's OM in March, 2103.

PreviouslyAvery was PD of WFXE-FM, WKZJ-FM and WOKS-AM/Columbus, GA and  she served as Director of Programming for Radio One's WWIN-FM/Baltimore, WMMJ/Washington, WERQ/Baltimore and WWIN/Baltimore.

She started her career at radio station WWRL in New York City as an intern. She was then named assistant music director and worked part time on the air. Her career took her to Dallas where she worked as a midday on-air personality at KKDA-FM, later becoming music director and then assistant Program director.

After 10 years at KKDA, she added more credits to her resume in Texas working at KMJQ in Houston as program director, before returning to KKDA as Operations manager and entertainment reporter for the then, local, Tom Joyner Morning show. She’s done a stint in the record business with Mercury records before going to WWIN/WERQ in Baltimore. Soon after becoming Director of Programming for Radio One.

After 6 years, she went to work at the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington, DC.

After a year there, she got recruited to work for Davis Broadcasting in Columbus, GA as Program director of WFXE, WOKS, and WKZJ.

Terri, then got recruited by CBS Radio in Charlotte to be Program director of WBAV. After a year as Program director at WBAV, she was promoted to Program director over the three urban stations in Charlotte, WPEG, WBAV and WGIV.

WBAV/WPEG consistently reign in the Top 7 in Charlotte Arbitron ratings, the system that measures radio listening in Charlotte, Gastonia and Rock Hill.