Mike McVay is President of McVay Media, a full-service consulting firm, that specializes in all thing’s audio. That includes content creation, network/syndication/radio programming, podcast creation and development, digital content, talent coaching, media training and unique media strategy design. McVay also consults in the entertainment sector focusing on video, digital, audio, music artists and labels. His podcast clients include American Idol, Disney+ and NATGEO.
McVay was most recently the Executive Vice President of Content and Programming for Cumulus Media and the Westwood One radio network. In his role he oversaw the programming for CUMULUS’ 425 owned radio stations and Westwood One, the company’s national network/syndication arm. His role also included responsibility for Podcast content, Digital distribution and content creation, as well as overseeing the companies Programing Education curriculum.
McVay coach’s talent, programmers and content creators on the art of entertainment, attracting an audience and maximizing personalities as a brand. His services include talent procurement. His coaching experience includes Stephen A Smith, Soledad O’Brien, Jean Chatzky, John Salley, Don Imus, Erich “Mancow” Muller, Scott Shannon, Jayde Donovan, Delilah, John Tesh, Governor Mike Huckabee, and significantly more.
He is a 40+ year programmer with national and local consulting, management, ownership, sales, network/syndication, programming, and on-air experience. He has also developed and launched several nationally syndicated programs. His experience includes serving as an international media consultant with companies around the world. He was a founding partner in the digital company now known as Futuri Media, and an original investor in Edison Research. He is recognized as one of the co-creators, with Delilah Renee Ortega, of the nationally syndicated radio show “Delilah.” He was instrumental in the launch of The John Tesh Show as a daily syndicated radio program which he continues to consult. His media training includes mentoring great talent like ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith.
McVay Media began serving broadcasters and talent globally as a consultant in 1984.
He has programmed in markets as big as Los Angeles and as small as Wheeling, WVa. Between those cities were San Diego, Louisville, Charleston, and Wheeling. He worked as an Air-Talent in those markets as well as in Pittsburgh, PA. He has served as a General Manager in Mobile, Alabama and Cleveland, Ohio. He owned radio stations in Key West, Naples, Honolulu and Flint, Michigan.
Mike has also worked in the music industry with artists and performers the likes of Carly Simon, Hall & Oates, Jewel, Carly Simon, Katy Perry, Reba McEntire, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Sia, Hannah Ellis and LoCash.
McVay is the recipient of numerous awards and acknowledgements. He is a recipient of the prestigious Rockwell Award, received the inaugural Innovation in Music & Media Award, has ranked as high as #4 among “America’s Top Programmers” by Radio Ink magazine, #14 on Radio Ink’s “Top-40 Most Powerful Broadcasters” list, one of the “Titans of Talk” by NTS magazine for 10 consecutive years, and was named “Corporate Programmer/Consultant of the Year” by the Worldwide Radio Summit 5 times.
He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Worldwide Radio Summit in 2021. McVay was recognized three times as “Broadcast Executive of the Year” by the former trade magazine Radio & Records is a 2021 inductee into the WVA Broadcasters Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Cleveland Broadcast Hall of Fame in 1997.
He is a member of board of directors for Country Radio Broadcasters, Board of Directors for the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation, the Co-Chair for the Alliance for Women in Media’s Gracie Awards, a member of the Radio Committee for St. Jude Children’s Hospital and Research Center, on the Board of Radio Arts & Sciences and is a voting member of both the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music.
Mike is a member of the Long-term Steering Committee for the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB),and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Academy of Radio Arts & Sciences.
Contact: MikeMcVay@McVayMedia.com Website: http://mcvaymedia.com/
