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David Gleason's
Illustrated
Biography
60 Years in Radio
Broadcasting
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Ancestry:
Gleason,
Chandler, Frackelton. |
A little about my ancestral roots.
The Chandlers from Chandlersville, Illinois
Frackeltons from Jacksonville, Illinois
Gleasons from Newburgh, NY. |
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Family |
Some clippings and items about my parents.
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Birth-1960 |
From childhood to a basement printing business.
Complete with pictures with dogs and ducks.
Also documented is my creation of my school's first
student
newspaper, which led to advance placement journalism studies at Michigan State
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AM Radio DXing |
My father taught me to
invest in the stock market. One of my fist purchases
was a single share of Storer Broadcasting. I tried
to hear all the Storer stations, and thus discovered
DXing, the distant reception of stations. |
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1959-1963:
Go-fer in Cleveland |
WCUY & WJMO, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Part time
board operator, short-lived (and bad)
announcer, and general janitor and "Go-fer".
Stations owned by the infamous Richard Eaton who had
multiple licenses revoked by the FCC. |
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1963:
Mexico
City Internship |
Intern at duopoly group operator
Organización Radio Centro, México, D.F.,
México, under supervision of Ramiro Garza. |
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1963:
Tikal,
Guatemala
&
The
Mayas |
Over the
Christmas season in 1963, I researched one
aspect in Mayan civilization and culture in
University libraries and by actual
observation at Tikal in Northern Guatemala, developing
a theory on the use of the ball courts (in
more recent picture) in
the earlier civilizations. |
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1964-1970:
Group
Ownership
in
Ecuador |
Teen-age (really!) owner and
manager,
Núcleo Radión, Quito, Ecuador. Gradually built
a group of 12 AM and FM stations, including
Northern South America's first independent
FM facility and South America's first Top 40 station.
Stations included Radio Musical, Canal
Tropical, Radio Fiesta, Teleonda Musical,
Sonora Musical, Ecos de la Montaña, Radio
Alfa Musical (Cuenca), Radio Carrousel
(Guayaquil) , Radio Musical (Ambato) and several others. |
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1970-1972:
WUNO
in
San Juan |
General Manager of Mooney
Broadcasting's WUNO,
San Juan, Puerto
Rico, where my turn-around strategy created
a team that built a personality Top 40 station that successfully
challenged and tied the 50-year #1 station
on the Island. |
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1972:
Birmingham?
Yes,
Birmingham!
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Transferred with Mooney's
new Birmingham, Alabama, stations as Program Director WERC AM&FM. Converted the FM
to one of the first FM CHR stations
in the
USA. |
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1973-1975:
Consultant
KWKW
KRUX
Student at
ASU |
Consultant with variety of clients in the
American Southwest, including pioneer
Spanish-language station KWKW in Los Angeles
and legendary Top 40 operations KRUX, KTKT
and KENO. Worked on college degree in
marketing and social sciences at Arizona State University at same time. |
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1975-1980:
Pueblo International
Puerto Rico |
Vice President and General Manager, Pueblo
Communications, WQII & WSRA, San Juan,
Puerto Rico. Rebuilt failed stations and
created Puerto Rico's first Adult
Contemporary station and its leading
Beautiful Music operation. |
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1979:
Z-93 in
Puerto Rico |
Developed the World's first all-salsa radio
station, WZNT, Z-93 in San Juan. Station
achieved over a 30+ share in its first 90
days on the air in a 30 station market.. |
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1980-1982:
Radio Hit
in Miami |
General Manager, WHTT, Miami, Florida, for
Norm Wain and Bob Weiss' Metroplex. Sister
station to South Florida monster Y-100. |
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1982-1985:
Format
Syndication
in Miami |
Owner, Música en Flor, Miami, Florida.
Company specialized in Latin American
program syndication and consultation. Worked
in 17 countries from Tierra del Fuego to the
Mexican border. At its peak, over 80
stations programmed "Música en Flor".including
huge cities like Lima and Bogotá. |
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1986
Radio Marti
Evaluation |
In 1986
conducted the Congressionally mandated
review of the US Information Agency's Radio
Martí program which broadcasts to Cuba.
Did several additional reviews in
later years. |
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1985-1992:
Salsoul in
Puerto Rico |
Programming Consultant, Sales Manager and
Vice President of ARSO Radio Corporation,
San Juan, Puerto Rico, group operator of
seven radio stations in Puerto Rico and
Florida. |
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1986-1987
Z-101
Santo Domingo
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Programming Consultant for Bienvenido
Rodríguez and Z-101 in Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic and creator of El
Gobierno de la Mañana with Willy Rodríguez
and Marino Guzmán. The show continues to be
#1 still after nearly 40 years. |
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1992-1994:
KHJ |
Vice President of Operations for Spanish
language KHJ-Los Angeles and sister
KWIZ-Santa Ana, California, working for
Liberman Broadcasting.
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1994-Present:
Éxitos
Express |
Consultant and programmer
for Tom Rounds' Radio Express,
Inc. for ÉxitosExpress® (and for
several years,Tropical
Express®) program services which
provide the latest music to hundreds of
radio stations in Latin America.
Over 1300 weekly CD and Online editions were
programmed through the end of all Radio Express
music services in 2021. |
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1995-1997:
KTNQ and
talk radio |
Heftel Broadcasting, Los Angeles. 1995-1998:
Program Director-KTNQ-AM when it became the
most listened-to Spanish news/talk station
in the USA. |
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1997:
More stations
and
New Name. |
In 1997,
Heftel Broadcasting merged with Tichenor
Media Systems and became Hispanic
Broadcasting Corporation. |
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1997-2003:
Hispanic
Broadcasting |
Vice President Hispanic Broadcasting
Corporation. Converted various HBC AM
stations to news and talk and then moved to
the FM operations.
In 2003, Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation
merged with Univision |
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1995 - 2005: UnoRadio
Puerto Rico |
Consultant to UnoRadio Group, operator of
the market-leading Salsoul, Radio Fidelity
and NotiUno networks in US market #14,Puerto
Rico. In 2005, Salsoul (the WPRM Network)
celebrated 20 years at #1, the longest run
recorded in the Top 50 US Markets.
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1999 - 2005:
Mega 98.3
Argentina |
Consultant to Emmis owned Votionis, S.A. operator of
100,000 watt
#1 AM news-talk Radio 10 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
and the world's first 100% Spanish rock station,
Mega 98.3: each station was #1 on its band! |
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1999-2003
XM
Satellite Hispanic
Channels |
HBC contracted to
provide 5 Spanish language channels to XM
Satellite Radio when it launched.
Channels included "rock en español",
contemporary, tropical, Tejano and regional
Mexican. |
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2003 -
2011:
Univision SIP |
Executive Vice President, Univision Radio,
Servicio de Información Programativa. "SIP"
was the in-house programming and research arm of
Univision Radio working with over 70
stations in 17 markets in the US and Puerto
Rico.
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2006 - 2011
Recuerdo
Network |
The Recuerdo radio network is created by
Amalia Gonzalez, Owen Leach and David
Gleason as a response to imitation of the
original HBC-developed format. Competitors
in markets like Dallas and San Francisco
switch format. |
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2013 - 2022
Univision Radio |
Consultant to 70-station Univision
Radio group, covering areas such as research,
programming, music scheduling, cluster
strategy, talent and talent training and
other areas of programming. |
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