SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WideOrbit Inc., the leading provider of advertising management software for media companies, is pleased to announce the addition of three members to its radio automation support team and a new sales representative for its award-winning WO Automation for Radio product. The new support members that were added since the first of the year give WideOrbit the largest radio automation support team in the industry.
Don Wakefield joined WideOrbit in January and serves as an implementation specialist for WO Automation for Radio. Don comes to WideOrbit from Yea! Network where he was a member of the engineering team for the Kidd Kraddick in the Morning show. Don has also served in the engineering team at Susquehanna Radio Corporation.
Barry Walters came to WideOrbit in June as an implementation specialist from Wilkes Communications where he was chief engineer of the Denver cluster for eleven years. Barry also served as a contract engineer for several other stations in the Denver area and brings years of real-world WO Automation for Radio and SS32 experience to WideOrbit.
Korey Brooks returned to WideOrbit in February as a support specialist with several years of customer support experience.
John Hicks joined WideOrbit in June as an inside sales representative. John is a well-known industry veteran with more than twenty years experience in radio automation sales with Google and Scott Studios.
All four new team members are located in WideOrbit’s new office in Coppell, Texas. WideOrbit recently signed a seven-year lease for this state-of-the-art facility in suburban Dallas to house the radio automation sales and support teams.
“We’ve been building out our radio automation team to keep up with demand,” said Eric R. Mathewson, Founder and CEO of WideOrbit. “Our development team continues to advance the capabilities of WO Automation for Radio and we’ve already installed 90 stations since the first of the year. I’m proud of the work our team has done and the superior support, service and product that they continue to provide to our clients.”
About WideOrbit
WideOrbit (www.wideorbit.com) is the leading provider of business management software for Media companies. WideOrbit provides innovative, proven solutions for managing the business of broadcast and cable operations – from proposal to order, scheduling to automation, billing and aging. WideOrbit has been helping clients since 1999, delivering high ROI, greater efficiencies and revenue optimization. More than 2,000 Television stations, Radio stations and Cable Networks around the globe use WideOrbit Traffic software with another 3,000+ on WideOrbit Radio Automation platforms. WideOrbit manages more than $14 billion in advertising revenue annually. Clients include: Astral Media, Corus Entertainment, DirecTV, E!, Entercom Communications, Fox Sports, Galavision, Gannett Co., Hearst Television, Madison Square Garden, Meredith Corporation, Midwest Communications, NBCUniversal, NHL Networks, Rogers Communications, Scripps Television Group, Tribune, Yankee Entertainment Sports, Univision and more than 300 other major media organizations. WideOrbit is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Dallas; Denver; Seattle; Agawam, MA; and Melbourne, Australia.