The HistoryMakers video oral history with Skip Finley.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 51 min., 31 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
Subject:Finley, Skip -- Interviews.
African Americans -- Interviews.
African Americans.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11337364
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Skip Finley
Skip Finley
Other authors / contributors:Finley, Skip, interviewee.
Cole, Harriette, interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Harriette Cole, interviewer.
Recorded Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts 2017 August 23.
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Summary:Broadcast and media executive Skip Finley was born on July 23, 1948 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He studied at Northeastern University in Boston, and in 1971, started working as a floor manager at Boston's WHDH-TV. In 1974, he joined Sheridan Broadcasting Corporation's Radio Division as a sales manager at WAMO AM-FM radio in Pittsburgh. He was promoted to the division's vice president in 1976 and later, in 1981, president of Sheridan Broadcasting Networks. In 1982, Finley founded Albimar Communications, Inc., which owned popular black radio station, WKYS-FM. From 1995 to 1998, he served as CEO of American Urban Radio Networks. From 2001 to 2011, he served as Inner City Broadcasting Corporation's chairman. Finley joined the Vineyard Gazette Media Group as director of sales in 2012, and also wrote for the Gazette's Oak Bluffs Town Column. In 2015, Finley founded M&M Community Development, Inc., to educate students on professional radio station operation.