RESERVATIONS DUE TODAY FOR MAY 11 MEETING

The Phenomenon of the Virtual Neighborhood

Speaker: Mary Beth Garber, President, Southern California Broadcasters Association
Date: May 11, 2007
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Venue: The Horizon Convention Center
Cost: $15 Members, $7.00 Students, $20 Non-members
Reservations: Due by: Friday, May 4, 2007
Email: Anne Condran; or Phone: 289-3676

Mrs. Garber’s distinguished advertising and broadcast career has always been Los Angeles-based. She held senior media positions at Chiat/Day and Foote, Cone & Belding in Los Angeles. Her radio experience includes local sales and management for CBS and ABC radio stations and at Interep Radio. She worked on the client side of the advertising business for two years as VP/Broadcast Media for Buena Vista Pictures Marketing serving the Walt Disney Studios.

Mrs. Garber became President of the Southern California Broadcasters Association in May of 1998. Since then she has co-produced, in conjunction with Arbitron, two behavioral studies about media usage. She created the concept “Radio - Our Virtual Neighborhoods” and has presented it to advertising and marketing groups, as well as radio stations, all over the country since 2003. Mrs. Garber also teaches. Over 500 people from the advertising business went through her Media Planning courses at UCLA Extension, and over 600 radio sales people have been trained through her SCBU (Southern California Broadcasters University) courses since 1994.

Since the inception of the list six years ago, Mrs. Garber has been named one of the “20 Most Influential Women in Radio” by RADIO INK Magazine. She was the recipient of the 2000 Southern California Chapter of American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) Genii Award for Excellence in Radio. She has been a keynote speaker at business conferences and events around the country.

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