Marie Kelly
Coastal Empire Record Pool
Dynamic radio air personality, energetic,
personable, a ratings and audience generating magnet... meet
Ms Marie Kelly. A native of Savannah, Georgia, Marie Kelly's
career began as an on-air personality at Oldies WEAS-AM in
1988. A year later the station switched its format to Gospel
and Marie found herself as morning Co-Host at sister station,
WEAS-FM. Under the tutelage of then Program Director, Floyd
Blackwell, producing commercials and mastering the technology
of the Music Selector System came next.
Empowered with strong radio programming
skills, Marie credits a great deal of her career movement
to the mentoring she received from Floyd Blackwell. Between
1988 and 1994 she ascended from Promotions Director to Assistant
Program Director to Program Director. Marie happily notes,
"those were the best years of my career." While
still in Savannah, between 1995 and 1996 she took the position
of Program Director at a cross-town station whose format had
changed from Oldies to Hip Hop and R&B. In their first
ratings book, the station skyrocketed to a #2 position, which
later forced the owners of heritage WEAS to sell!
1996 also brought another change of venue
and Marie Kelly found herself in Dallas, Texas. This time
she took the position of Air Personality at KKDA, Dallas's
#1 Urban station! There she created a fun, celebrity filled
show that had a huge following of loyal listeners!! By 1997
she had became associate producer and host of a Dallas video
show called "SOUTHERN VIDEO VIBE - DA RIDE," a show,
which she is now part owner.
1999 brought another change in the career
of Marie Kelly; she was offered another position as Program
Director in Mobile, Alabama. Always a leader and never a follower,
Marie enhanced her Selector Music scheduling skills and packed
her bags. She spent a successful year in Mobile until the
station was sold, staff restructured and conditions beyond
her control facilitated a move back to Dallas.
Currently she operates her nine-year-old
record pool, Coastal Empire Record Pool. A NABFEME Executive
to Watch... Marie Kelly is confident, competent and positioning
herself for her next radio adventure!
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