The Infinite Dial

Name:
Chris Oliviero

Current Title/Position/Company:
Vice President Programming CBS Radio

How did you get your start in radio?
Intern for the Howard Stern show

What are your career goals?
Be a productive part of radio's next wave of reinvention and rebirth. Our future is even brighter than our past.

What do you enjoy most about your work?
Understanding the magnitude and the importance of the history of our great stations and in some way being able to help write the next few chapters of that story.

What are the biggest challenges ahead for radio, from your perspective?
Not believing the baseless misinformation of external forces that like to predict gloom and doom for our industry, and going one step further and actually speaking up loud against it.

What have you learned that you would most like to pass on to your fellow under-thirty-somethings?
Find a mentor that believes in you and your ability, which is priceless. Then remember to return the favor to someone else in your shoes in the future.