Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> February 2, 2004
GLENN W. CHERRY is the President/CEO of Tama Broadcasting, Inc., and
also serves on its Board of Directors. Dr. Cherry has been involved with
advertising media sales since 1978, when he sold advertising for his
family's African-American owned newspapers. Dr. Cherry has served as the
GM of 1150 WTMP- AM since 1997 when he relocated to Tampa to assume a
more hands-on management role in the station on behalf of his
partnership. Dr. Cherry is the GM of newly acquired stations WTMP 96.1-
FM Tampa, WHJX 105.7-FM, WSJF 105.5 FM, WJSJ 105.3 FM and WOKF 92.5-FM
in Jacksonville, Florida. He serves as the Managing Partner of a
partnership external to Tama that owns and operates WCSZ-AM, a sports-
oriented AM station in Greenville, South Carolina. Dr. Cherry is also a
principal shareholder in a corporation that owns WPUL-AM in Daytona
Beach, Florida, a gospel-formatted AM station co-located with the
family-owned African-American newspapers, The Daytona Times and The
Florida Courier. Dr. Cherry served on active duty as a commissioned
officer in the United States Air Force at the rank of Captain from
1984-1988. In November 1991, Dr. Cherry received an honorable discharge
from the United States Air Force Reserve. He received a Bachelor of
Science degree in Biology from Morehouse College in 1980 and a Doctor of
Veterinary Medicine degree from Tuskegee University in 1984. Dr. Cherry
served as a political appointee in the Clinton Administration at the
United States Department of Agriculture and worked a six-month
assignment in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel as an
Executive Search Manager. Profile
Dr. Cherry: In 1989, my brother Charles W. Cherry II and I bought our
first station, a small AM, in Daytona Beach, Florida,
