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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JACOR SANTA BARBARA NAMES
JIM VOTAW MARKET MANAGER
COVINGTON, KY June 30, 1998: Jacor’s (Nasdaq: JCOR) Jim Votaw will be kicking up sand in the company’s Santa Barbara market soon. Votaw, a veteran radio sales and marketing professional, today was named Market Manager of the company’s Santa Barbara cluster. He had been Director of AM Sales in San Diego for Jacor and, previously, general sales manager at 91X-FM in San Diego and had been a general manager in Fresno and Riverside, California.
Jim Votaw’s qualifications for Santa Barbara Market Manager extend far beyond his stellar performance in the sales arena. Through his years on the West Coast Votaw has perfected a "surfer dude" persona and one of the best honed tans in the region. All that coupled with his gig in a rock and roll band made the promotion of Votaw to Market Manager an easy decision for Jacor Senior Vice President Jay Meyers. Says Meyers, "The only other person with Jim’s unique set of qualifications was David Lee Roth. And Jim’s a better singer! I was concerned about convincing Jim to leave San Diego but when I told him that our facility was just a mile from the beach he said, ‘Dude, I'm there.’ With that kind of commitment I knew Jim was our guy."
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Jacor is the nation’s third largest radio company measured by total stations. Including announced pending acquisitions, Jacor now owns, operates or represents 204 radio stations in 56 broadcast areas and WKRC-TV in Cincinnati. Additionally, Jacor’s wholly owned subsidiary Premiere Radio Networks is the country’s third largest provider of syndicated radio programming including the nation’s top rated radio talk shows: The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Dr. Laura Schlessinger Show, Dr. Dean Edell and Art Bell. Jacor also owns a satellite distribution service, NSN, which provides bi-directional communications among multiple networks. Jacor plans to pursue growth through continued acquisitions of complementary radio stations in existing broadcast locations, and radio groups or individual stations with significant presence in other domestic and international locations. Additionally, Jacor plans to grow in other broadcast related products and businesses.
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JACOR'S JIM VOTAW
SANTA BARBARA MARKET MANAGER
