Cooper Named GSM Of WQDR/Raleigh

• Curtis Media Group has named industry vet Dave Cooper as the new General Sales Manager of Country WQDR/Raleigh, effective Monday, July 16. Cooper migrates from St. Louis, where he spent the past 14 years with CBS Radio/Entercom, most recently as General Sales Manager of KYKY and KEZK.

In making the official introduction, Trip Savery, President/COO of Curtis Media Group, commented, “We are very pleased to welcome Dave to North Carolina and Curtis Media Group. His many years of broadcast and digital sales experience make him a great addition to our Raleigh management team, and I’m confident he will lead WQDR to even greater success.”

No less thrilled and honored about this deal was Mr. Cooper, who remarked, “I’m thrilled and honored to join Curtis Media Group, one of the most respected broadcasters in America and WQDR, the CMA Large Market Station of the Year. I’m very excited to work with the talented sales and programming team that has made WQDR the Raleigh-Durham market leader, developing customer marketing solutions for advertisers that produce results.”