Blake Lawrence

Current

Creative Consultant at All The Excess!

Past

Program Director, WQCD/New York at Emmis Communications
Senior Program Director at XM Satellite Radio
Music Director, Mornings at KKSF/San Francisco

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Blake Lawrence’s Summary

Radio program director with more than thirty years in radio broadcasting. Worked in major US markets including (before 1988) Chicago, Houston, and Pittsburgh, plus the stations and organizations listed in greater detail here. Creative, driven, dedicated, loyal, and intelligent broadcaster seeking to grow the business from the confines of the transmitter-receiver model to the broader applications afforded by more modern technology.

Blake Lawrence’s Specialties:

Creative writing, complex ProTools audio production, trained ear for music

Blake Lawrence’s Experience

Creative Consultant

All The Excess!

(Broadcast Media industry)

April 2009 — Present (4 months)

Now working with fierce faux radio industry trade site All The Excess! (http://www.alltheexcess.com) specializing in content invention and acquisition, illustration, site promotion, and public relations.

[Please don't get too excited for me; it's not a real paying job, but rather a labor of love...and it IS my only current project. However, the entries that follow are 100% believable and are (were) actual paying jobs.]
Program Director, WQCD/New York

Emmis Communications

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; EMMS; Broadcast Media industry)

August 2004 — June 2008 (3 years 11 months)

Off-the-air program director. Saw WQCD through an experiment in attracting younger listeners. Returned WQCD to its core mission when it was decided that staying true to heritage would be best for the station in the long run. It was here that I taught myself the ProTools system and developed new and innovative imaging concepts for the station. Worked closely with sales and interactive departments to broaden WQCD from just a radio station to an entity touching consumers on multiple platforms.

In the fall of 2007, assisted in the concept, design, and implementation of what would become WRXP, the rock station that replaced WQCD/NY on 101.9. Left station shortly after the transition to WRXP.
Senior Program Director

XM Satellite Radio

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

August 2000 — August 2004 (4 years 1 month)

Helped XM Satellite Radio get off the ground. One of the original program directors hired to debut amazing radio via satellite to the USA. Worked with some of the brightest minds in the business and thrived on the spirit of starting something new, different, and...well, exciting is too weak a word.

Worked with and supervised the XM channels BPM, Chrome, The Move, The System, 20on20, The Heart, The Blend, Kiss, Mix. AFDI.
Music Director, Mornings

KKSF/San Francisco

(Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)

1988 — 2000 (12 years)

Morning drive announcer on this pioneering NAC/Smooth Jazz station until 1992. Returned to station in 1993 and would stay until 2000, doing part-time air work, then Music Director beginning in 1996. It was magical and life-changing to work with and to simply know the highly regarded, visionary Steve Feinstein, KKSF PD, as well as an entire cast of impeccable broadcast and sales professionals who graced the station pre-2000.