Cumulus Media/Detroit Ups Steve Finateri to VP/Market Manager

Steve Finateri

CUMULUS MEDIA has upped News-Talk WJR-A/DETROIT Dir. of Sales STEVE FINATERI to VP/Market Manager for the CUMULUS DETROIT cluster. FINATERI, who joined WJR as NSM in 2006 and rose to LSM in 2008, fills the post left vacant by TOM O’BRIEN’s retirement at the end of 2018.

The cluster includes WJR, Country WDRQ (NASH FM 93.1), Country WDRQ-HD2 (NASH ICON), and Top 40 WDVD.

Executive VP, Operations DAVE MILNER said: “Steve’s performance and success leading WJR’s sales team, along with his deep understanding of the DETROIT media and advertising market made him the obvious choice to run our CUMULUS cluster in the MOTOR CITY.”

FINATERI added, “It’s a privilege and an honor to represent such an elite team of media professionals. Our CUMULUS DETROIT radio stations reach over 1.6 million listeners weekly, delivering over 42% of Metro DETROIT’s total population, even more when you include WJR’s booming regional signal that adds significant listenership throughout MICHIGAN. CUMULUS DETROIT has MICHIGAN’s most well-known and beloved radio personalities and is the home of the DETROIT LIONS RADIO NETWORK and flagship for MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY football and basketball. Those assets, coupled with CUMULUS MEDIA’s robust suite of sophisticated digital offerings, give us all the horsepower we need to be the one-stop shop for effective marketing campaigns for our customers who range from local businesses on up to MICHIGAN’s largest companies.”

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