Boston Radio: Taliere, Carbone Named As Beasley Co-GSMs

Beasley Media Group Boston has announced Kari Talieri and Jesse Carbone have both been promoted to the position of General Sales Manager at the company’s Boston-based radio properties, including WBZ-FM/98.5 The Sports Hub, WKLB-FM/Country 102.5, WROR-FM/105.7, WBOS-FM/Rock 92.9 and WBQT-FM/HOT 96.9. They will begin their new positions, effective immediately.

Kari Taliere, Jesse Carbone

In their new roles, Kari and Jesse will represent all of Beasley’s stations as well as the play-by-play networks and will report to the Beasley Media Group Boston’s Director of Sales, Brian Schneekloth.

Talieri has held sales management positions in Boston Radio for over a decade.  In addition to most recently spending the past five years serving as the Local Sales Manager of WBZ-FM/98.5 The Sports Hub and WBOS-FM/Rock 92.9, Talieri has been instrumental in leading the sales efforts of The New England Patriots Radio Network, the Boston Bruins Radio Network and the Boston Celtics Radio Network.

Carbone is a 20-year Boston Radio veteran who has spent the past 16 years working with 105.7, WROR as an Account Executive, Local Sales Manager and General Sales Manager. Throughout his years at WROR, the station has seen strong revenue growth and has become one of the top revenue and ratings performers in the Boston market.

“Kari and Jesse have played a major part in our success over the past few years as we have worked to streamline our sales department to have a client-centric, cluster-first approach,” said Schneekloth. “Their leadership skills have helped to transform our sales team to become experts across all five of our stations as well as our four sports play-by-play networks.”