A&R Worldwide, the global artist discovery and development firm, and Allaccess.com, the world`s largest community of radio professionals, have teamed to create the 1st annual Worldwide Radio Summit, to take place in Los Angeles in April 2010.
The Worldwide Radio Summit is designed to become the central meeting place to create a snapshot of the global radio industry with discussions on new business models and technology developments to bring radio programmers into the 21st century."As a member and advocate of the global radio and music community I felt it was essential to bring together a melting pot of positive creative and business inspiration in a forum that would be productive and meaningful to those who participate at the Worldwide Radio Summit," Sat Bisla, President and founder of A&R Worldwide and the Musexpo conferences said in a statement. "Having been a part of the radio family for the past 26 years and sharing new sounds with music fans around the globe – radio has played a vital role in sharing great talent with the masses".
For the event, he has teamed up with Joel Denver, president and publisher of respected radio site allaccess.com. "Everyone at AllAccess.com is thrilled to be co-presenting The Worldwide Radio Summit with our friend Sat Bisla and his amazing team at A&R Worldwide," says Joel. "We feel that The Worldwide Radio Summit will be a vital new opportunity for communication between radio managers and programmers from the United States and International markets all with the same common goal – to make radio better and integrate creative programming across a growing number of digital platforms".
According to Bisla, "The Worldwide Radio Summit will be a key forum to bring together radio and those vested in radio in a way to ensure this medium maintains its importance as the primary communicator for sound to billions around the world. I am very pleased to be working with Joel Denver and his great team at AllAccess.com who share the same passion and vision for radio as A&R Worldwide does – to help deliver an event that will bring broadcasters and music enthusiasts together for the betterment of radio, the listener and the music community."
Already confirmed to attend are Cumulus Co-COO John Dickey and SVP/Programming Jan Jeffries, Emmis VP/Programming AND Power 106/L.A. PD Jimmy Steal, WRXP/N.Y. PD Leslie Fram, CBS/S.F. VP/Programming Michael Martin, Clear Channel/SF OM Don Parker, KBIG/L.A. and K101/S.F. PD Andrew Jeffries, WKSC/Chicago PD Rick Vaughn, KEXX/Phoenix PD Marc Young, KCRW Santa Monica MD & Host "Morning Becomes Eclectic" Jason Bentley, XM Sirius Satellite Radio OM Will Pendarvis, Westwood One Radio Networks' Michael Steele, KCRW On-Air Personality Nic Harcourt and Yahoo! Music Head of Programming & Artist/Label Relations John Lenac, among many others.
Among some of those confirming early from overseas are Xfm (U.K.) Head of Music Mike Walsh, MotorFM Germany, Managing Partners Markus Kuehn and Mona Rübsamen, New Zealand On-Air's Brendan Smyth and Mike McClung and Australian Broadcasting Corp. Group PD Andrew Phillips.
The event will also include the Worldwide Radio Awards, honouring excellence in broadcasting.
The first annual Worldwide Radio Summit is on April 29 and 30, 2011.
