March 06, 2008 - New York, NY

Rocky Cosgrove Joins Interep's CBS Radio Sales as Vice President, Strategic Development

CBS Radio Sales, an Interep company, announced today that Rocky Cosgrove has joined the company as Vice President, Strategic Development based in San Francisco. Cosgrove most recently was Vice President, Client Services for Bovo-Tighe, LLC, and previously worked for Interep as Director of Radio Marketing from 1997-99.

Joan McNamara, VP/Director of Sales, CBS Radio Sales – Dallas, said, “Rocky’s background is a great blend of both radio and client-side experience, making him ideally suited to step right in and make a positive impact on behalf of our client stations. It is with great pleasure that I welcome Rocky back to the Interep family.”

Cosgrove’s track record covers almost 30 years in sales, business development, consulting and training, including 17 years of previous experience with CBS Radio and Interep.  

He started his career as an Account Executive at KCBS AM/San Francisco, and also worked as Local Sales Manager and General Sales Manager at KZOK/Seattle.  From 1987 through 1997, he held several positions at CBS Radio Representatives, including San Francisco/Seattle Sales Manager, Midwest Regional Manager and Western Region Marketing Manager.  In 1997, after Infinity’s acquisition of CBS, he joined Interep as Director of Radio Marketing.

While at CBS Radio Representatives, Cosgrove was twice named “Salesperson of the Year”, and at Interep he was a Chairman’s Circle Award Winner for New Business Development.  Both at CBS Radio and at Interep, he led the growth of innovative marketing programs for well-known brands including Apple Computer, Oral-B, Omnipoint Cellular, Starwood Hotels and The Sharper Image.    

From 1999 through 2007, Cosgrove worked in technology and management consulting, including positions as VP/Advertising Sales and Radio, Xenote, Inc. San Mateo, California; VP/Business Development, Tincell, Inc., Sausalito, California and Paris, France; and his most recent position with Bovo-Tighe, where he worked with well-known clients like Shell Oil, Genentech and Nestle.

Cosgrove is a graduate of Santa Clara University, and resides in Northern California.

About Interep

Interep (IREP.PK) is the nation's largest independent advertising sales and marketing company specializing in radio, the Internet, television and complementary media, with offices in 17 cities. Interep is the parent company to the following radio representation firms: ABC Radio Sales, D&R Radio, CBS Radio Sales, McGavren Guild Radio, and SBS/Interep. Interep is also parent to Azteca America Spot Television Sales, Hispanic Independent Television Sales (HITS), and Interep Interactive, including Winstar Interactive. Divisions benefiting our clients and customers include our unwired network radio division, Interep NetSolutions™, Interep Innovations, our business development division, including the Interep Marketing Group (IMG) and Promotion Marketing; and Morrison and Abraham, a sales consulting firm. For more information, visit the company's website at http://www.interep.com.