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Walter Sabo Profile

Source: News/Talk/Sports Aircheck -- Sep 20, 2007

CEO
Sabo Media

Sabo is an acknowledged leader in media programming, marketing and management. He has the distinction of being the youngest VP in the history of ABC and NBC, having landed both posts before the age of 30. Since 1984 he has been President of Sabo Media, a New York-based programming and management company specializing in profitable content solutions, with offices in New York City, New Orleans, Miami and Los Angeles.
Throughout its history, Sabo Media has worked with many distinguished firms including Group W, RKO Radio, Newhouse Communications, Viking Publishing, Press Broadcasting, Greater Media, AMC Movie Theaters, Standard Broadcasting of Canada, The CHUM Group, Clear Channel Communications, Gannett, Infinity, Dow Jones, American Radio Systems, Entercom, Paxson Communications, Fred Silverman Television Productions, Katz Syndication, Apollo Advisors and Blackstone & Schroeder Ventures of New York. The company also consults on all Sirius Satellite Radio. programming.
Sabo Media was the first to program Talk successfully on the FM band for a younger audience, resulting in new revenue streams for the medium. Other innovations include the creation of the format now known as Adult Contemporary - the financial backbone of American radio - for which he was profiled in Fortune magazine. Several successful Talk personalities were first discovered by Sabo including Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Sally Jessy Raphael and KFI/Los Angeles hosts John and Ken. A frequent speaker at industry conventions, Sabo is also a member of the National Arts Club, the Advisory Board of the Museum of Television and Radio and the Board of Directors of Call For Action.

Guilty Pleasure: The TV show "Next" on MTV
Favorite Food I Shouldn't Eat: Sausage pizza - but only in New York City
Beverage of Choice: Dunkin' Donuts coffee
Most Influential Person(s): Fred Silverman, former head of NBC, CBS and ABC; former ABC executives Ed McLaughlin and Dick McCauley; Dr. Charles Weisman; Ed Hersh at Court TV; Tom O'Neil, Chairman of RKO; Mel Karmazin, CEO of Sirius; Abstract artist Steven Westfall; my beautiful daughters, Dorothy and Meredith; and my wife, Katie.
Best Advice I Ever Got: From Ed McLaughlin: "Walter, it's a simple business. People make it hard."
Email Address: walter@sabomedia.com

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