Advisory Board member, Kevin Fleming’s entertainment business experience is vast and varied. It includes radio, records, management, and publishing. Currently, Kevin is the CEO of The Urban Buzz, a leading urban music and entertainment blog and newsletter.
A native of Minneapolis, Kevin attended Clark College in Atlanta, obtaining a degree in Broadcast Management and Communications. Radio career highlights include WAOK & WIGO in Atlanta and WWDM-Sumter, SC. His first major market programming job came as Program Director of KGFJ-LA.
Kevin joined the record side of the business as Regional Promotion Representative for Island Records where he was rapidly promoted to Vice President of Black Music. After a brief stint at Third Stone Records, Kevin was selected as Vice President and General Manager of Perspective Records under the ownership of super producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.
During the early 1990’s, Kevin returned to radio as Operations Manager and Program Director of KACE/KRTO in Los Angeles. He also started consulting radio stations in programming and overall operations.
In 2000, he joined Gavin Magazine, as its Urban Editor, expanding the magazine’s coverage of urban radio and music while maintaining his radio consulting business. In 2002 he founded The Urban Buzz information newsletter and website. In 2006, Kevin was hired by Radio One to program the company’s flagship station KKBT-LA and transform it into the first class major market urban adult brand, KRBV. Despite ratings and revenue success, Radio One sold the station in 2007.
He was most recently PD of Pacifica Radio’s KPFK and lectures and shares his knowledge of radio programming and the music industry at conventions, seminars and webinars as an expert panelist.
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