Cumulus Media Providence Promotes Paras to VP/MM. Ten-year
Cumulus Media Providence director of sales
Holly Paras is elevated to vice president and market manager for the company's five-station cluster in that Rhode Island metro. Cumulus Media senior vice president
Jeff Brown comments,
"Holly's fingerprints are on many of the successes that our cluster in Providence has enjoyed over the years. She is the first to tell you that those wins are due to our very talented, market-leading team. She is the leader and the team is fired up to follow her." Paras states, "I am excited and humbled to be asked to lead such a talented team of people and the tremendous radio brands at Cumulus Providence." Before her director of sales tenure, Paras was national sales manager for three Cumulus Media Providence outlets, and was a
Katz Radio Group New York City account executive. Fourteen (14) stations are listed in
Nielsen Audio's August 2016
PPM report for Providence. With their August 2016 6+- market rank and 6+-share in parentheses, Cumulus Media Providence's five station cluster consists of adult contemporary WWLI "Lite Rock 105" (#1, 9.7); CHR WPRO-FM "Today's Hit Music" (#2, 8.5); talk WPRO-AM (#7, 4.6); rhythmic CHR WWKX "Hot 106" (#8, third successive 2.6); and talk WPRV (#13, .5).
