Chris Williams has announced he will depart as General Manager/Chief Product Officer of the iHeartRadio app next month.
Williams has served in his current position since December 2014 after rising through the programming ranks. Williams joined the company in 2005 as Program Director of Rock “105.3 The Buzz” WBZY Atlanta and successor “Project 9-6-1” WKLS. He would add duties as PD for the company’s Premium Choice Alternative and Active Rock formats in 2009 and Active Rock Brand Coordinator in 2011. He would move to Cincinnati in 2012 as VP/Programming for their seven station cluster. The following year, Williams moved to the New York offices as SVP/iHeartRadio Programming overseeing all digital content programming, curation, and marketing strategies for the iHeartRadio app.
In a LinkedIn post announcing his upcoming departure on Labor Day weekend, Williams writes, “Unlike…
