Mel Wheeler Promotes Sharp, Scott
• After 27 years as General Manager of the Mel Wheeler Inc. cluster of radio stations in Roanoke-Lynchburg, VA, President & Co-Owner Leonard Wheeler is handing the reins of top management over to longtime OM Brett Sharp, who is upped to General Manager, and Director of Sales Nadra Scott, who is promoted to VP of Sales.
In making the announcement, Wheeler stated, “I’m so pleased to announce two moves to improve the management structure of our stations and company. Brett Sharp has been a critical part of the success of our stations since 2000, when he became Program Director of a new Country station WSLC (94.9 Star Country), and steered it to become the leading station in the market for more than 11 consecutive years to date. Nadra Scott is a more recent blessing to our company, joining us in 2017 as Director of Sales. She came to us from Atlanta, having extensive experience with Cox, Lincoln Financial and Entercom in the Atlanta and Fort Lauderdale markets.”
Wheeler continued, “It is our confidence in Brett and Nadra as an excellent management team that led to these promotions. I will continue to have a close involvement with the stations, as I move from being a General Manager who has been out too much due to other responsibilities, to a President and Owner who will be in the stations a lot.” We understand that Sharp will retain his PD duties for now at WSLC.
