| John Douglas has come a long, long way
since failing his first physics test as a student at Bates. After
passing that course, Douglas thrived as a physics major, and as a
track and field athlete, too: John set a long-standing New England
collegiate record in the triple jump. Today John
is president/CEO of AIM Broadcasting, which has acquired two
AM radio stations in Las Vegas and plans to acquire other
properties in major markets. Prior to his current position, he was
president/CEO of PAR Radio Holding and Douglas Broadcasting Co.,
the 24th largest radio group in the U.S. in 1997 with 19 stations
in eight out of the top 10 radio markets. During the 1990s, he
controlled 26 radio stations and was CEO of Personal
Achievement Radio, a 24/7 program syndicated by ABC Radio Networks.
He created and developed AsiaOne Network into the largest Asian
formatted radio broadcast group outside of Asia and purchased Asia
Media Sales, the only national sales rep firm serving the Asian
market in radio, TV and cable. Previously, he was founder and
chairman of National Group Television (1981-87), licensee of the
second-oldest African-American owned TV station in the country and
one of the largest and oldest Asian formatted stations in the U.S.
He was creator and news director of Business
Today, the first nationally syndicated, morning business
news TV show. He was the creator and executive producer
of Front Page daily news, broadcast by Black
Entertainment Television. John was with Castle & Cooke Inc.
(now Dole Foods Inc.) from 1974 to 1981 as manager of
planning and development and then director of investor and
public relations. From 1968 to 1974 he was a security analyst with
such firms as Bear Stearns & Company and Bank of America; and
from 1962 to 1968, he was a senior scientist at Lockheed Research
Laboratories. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Bates
College and Howard University, respectively, and is a graduate of
the Executive Program of Darden Graduate School of Business
Administration, University of Virginia. He was the recipient of the
1990 Distinguished Entrepreneur Award from the National Association
of Investment Companies. He wrote the business plan for and
was the initial interim general manager for KMTP-TV (San
Francisco), the second African-American controlled Public
Television Station in the country and a major Asian station. He was
elected to the board of directors of the California Broadcasters
Association in 1991. He was a trustee at Bates (1995-2000),
and helped in the founding of Z-Spanish Media (now Entravision
Communications, a NYSE company). In 1997, he was elected to the
board of Comerica Bank of California. He was elected to the board
of Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) in 1998. He has been featured or
mentioned in The Wall Street
Journal, Business
Week, C-Span, Ebony, USA
Today, The New York Times, U.S. News
& World Report, Radio &
Records, Inc Magazine, Lifetime Cable and
National Public Radio. |
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