iHeartRadio CPO Chris Williams Adds General Manager Duties
| RADIO ONLINE | Thursday, October 14, 2021 | 4:53pm CT |
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 Chris Williams |
iHeartRadio Chief Product Officer Chris Williams adds General Manager duties, overseeing iHM's digital products, engineering, editorial and social teams. He assumes these duties from outgoing COO Darren Davis. Williams joined iHeartRadio in November, 2013, as Senior VP of iHR Programming. Williams was then named Chief Product Officer in December, 2014. Before that, he served as VP/Programming for the company's cluster in Cincinnati and Program Director of Rock WEBN-FM.
In a memo announcing the promotion, iHeartMedia Digital Audio Group CEO Conal Byrne wrote, "Chris has risen through the ranks, starting at the local level in our company's core radio business as a programmer and air talent, and over the past decade he's flourished in our digital organization, helping to build iHeartRadio into the multi-platform leader that it is today."
