Youngstown Radio: Charley Connolly Rejoins Cumulus Media

Charley Connolly

Cumulus Media announces that it has appointed veteran radio programming professional Charley Connolly as Operations Manager of the company’s eight radio stations in Youngstown, OH, and Program Director of Youngstown Country station WQXK-FM/K105.

Connolly brings deep experience in radio programming and operations to Cumulus Youngstown, and was most recently Program Director of iHeartMedia’s Country station WGAR-FM in Cleveland, OH, a position he held for nine years. Connolly was also Program Director for iHeartMedia-Cleveland’s Variety Hits station WHLK-FM.

Prior to that, he was Program Director for Cumulus Media’s WSM-FM (Country) and WWTM-FM (News Talk) in Nashville, TN, and held Program Director positions in markets including: Dallas, TX; Bridgeport, CT; New York, NY; Garden City, NY.

Bill Kelly, Vice President/Market Manager, Cumulus Youngstown, said: “We are fortunate to have someone of Charley’s background, especially with Country, available to us in Ytown. This is gonna be fun.”

Connolly said: “Thank you, Doug Hamand, Charlie Cook, Mike McVay and Bill Kelly for this wonderful opportunity!”

Cumulus Media owns and operates Youngstown radio stations: WHOT-FM (CHR), WYFM-FM (Classic Rock), WQXK-FM (Country), WPIC-AM (News Talk), WSOM-AM (Classic Country), WWIZ-FM (Oldies), WBBW-AM (Sports), and WLLF-FM (Sports).