Valerie Geller

Valerie Geller is president of Geller Media International, a broadcast consulting firm working with radio and television throughout the world. In the past fourteen years she has worked with more than 500 stations in 27 countries helping them grow, develop and keep audiences through content, personalities, and programming. In Canada, Geller has presented Creating Powerful Radio Workshops for several of Canada's top broadcasting companies including: CHUM, Standard Broadcasting and the Canadian Association of Broadcasters and the Canadian Radio & TV News Directors Association. Geller works with Rogers Media and Bohn Associates working with Toronto's 680 News, The Fan and CHFI -FM, and Vancouver's News 1130) Geller is the author of two books about radio: Creating Powerful Radio: A Communicator's Handbook for News, Talk, Information & Personality and The Powerful Radio Workbook: The Prep, Performance & Post Production Planning. A third revised and updated edition of Creating Powerful Radio book will be available from FOCAL PRESS in the spring of 2005 .

Geller works individually with stations and leads Creating Powerful Radio Workshops, works one-on-one coaching on air presenters, DJs, news reporters, writers, anchors and producers, talk show hosts, programmers and managers.

Valerie Geller understands radio programming. With more than 30 years of broadcast experience, her background includes all radio formats from adult contemporary, top 40 CHR, to country and news/talk. Ms. Geller ran the news department at KIOI/San Francisco, presented talk radio programs from Tampa Bay to Los Angeles and setup news/talk formats at a number of major stations, including KFI in Los Angeles and programming WABC in New York. For more, www.gellermedia.com