Kizart Media Partners (KMP) and NABOB will host the “Power of Urban Radio Forum”” on Thursday, September 24, 2009, in Washington DC as part of the 33nd Annual Fall Broadcast Management Conference of the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters (NABOB), which will be held in concert with the 39th Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
Communications experts representing major radio, advertising agencies and corporate brand s will engage conference attendees in powerful presentations and panel discussions. Topics to be addressed include:
“No Urban and No Hispanic Dictates ““ A New Platform to End Them”
“Agencies Addressing the Power of Urban Radio”
“The Value of Black Consumers and Power of Urban”
The opening presentation will be made by Robert McDowell, Federal Communications Commissioner. Other speakers and panelists include:
Ken Smikle,President/Target Market News-Lead Moderator
Adonis Hoffman, Senior Vice President, American Association of Advertising Agencies
Brian Knox, Senior Vice President, Katz Media Group
Sanford Moore, Activist
Cameilla Ware, VP/ Media Director, Uniworld Group-(Ford, Home Depot)
Gerald Hawthorn, VP/Media Director- Fuse Advertising( Obama 2008, Anheuser Busch)
Kay Lucas, SVP/ Media Director- Carol H. Williams Advertising( US Army, Kraft Foods, Nationwide Insurance)
Creola Kizart-Hampton, President, GreaterWorks! Advertising & PR (Awakened Alternatives Inc., Kingdom Records, Grand ma Maud’s)
Farissa Alexand er, CEO/ Radio Link Media (its clients include Singleton and Partners,Global Hue,and Owens Morris Communications)
Edna Kane-Williams, VP/ African American Strategy- AARP
Alisa Joesph, VP/ African American Marketing Promotion- Wachovia Wells Fargo
Abana Jacobs, Director of Multicultural Sponsorships/Partnerships- Subaru of North America
Louis Sigalos, Director of Consumer Affairs, Federal Communications Commission (FCC’s investment in Urban and Hispanic Radio for DTV conversion)
Sherman Kizart, Managing Director/ KMP, is a 20 year marketing specialist who had been the driving force behind the Power of Urban Radio Symposium, the industry’s most comprehensive national advertising and marketing platform for Urban Radio. Kizart acquired rights to the Symposium after Interep, Inc. was dissolved in 2008 and made the determination that this year’s event would be held during the NABOB Conference.
