Jay Meyers

President and Chief Operating Officer

214 855 0002
jaymeyers@bmtllc.com

Jay joined the company at its formation as President and Chief Operating Officer when he merged his highly successful broadcast management firm, Cavalry Media Services with First Broadcasting to form Broadcast Management and Technology.  He is a 35 year broadcast veteran with experience in every facet of the business, from corporate management to individual and cluster station management and even years as an award winning radio program director and air personality.  With involvement and oversight of nearly 150 different markets, and over 600 different stations, Jay possesses knowledge and experience nearly unparalleled in the broadcast industry.

Prior to the formation of BMTllc, Jay founded Cavalry with four partners and grew it to the industries’ leading consulting and management firm specializing in working with Lenders, Equity Investors and Broadcast Owners.  Before that, Jay spent nearly ten years as a Senior Vice President of the legendary Jacor Communications and its successor Clear Channel Communications, where he distinguished himself annually as a top performer and a specialist in troubled and turnaround situations.  Before being recruited by his client Jacor, Jay was President/CEO of Jay Meyers and Associates, a company that worked extensively with lenders and equity investors on difficult broadcast situations.  During this time he became an experienced Broadcast Receiver and Bankruptcy Trustee (both Chapter 11 and Chapter 7).  He was also retained by Bear Stearns as the radio expert for the 1996 purchase of ABC by Disney.

Earlier in his career, Jay served as President/COO of Sherman Broadcasting Corporation, and had prominent positions with broadcast companies Greater Media, Lin Broadcasting, Lincoln Group, Atlantic Ventures and Command Communications.  He has served on the Board of the Radio Advertising Bureau and is a past chairman of the RAB’s Management Leadership Conference.  In addition, he has served on the Arbitron Advisory Council and numerous NAB planning committees.  Along with former Apple  and Pepsi CEO John Sculley and football great Dan Marino and others, he serves on the Board of 3Cinteractive, a leading mobile marketing firm   Gerson Lehrman Group, a service used by analysts and investors, recently acknowledged Jay as one of their most requested advisors in the media, broadcast and advertising fields.  Jay graduated from Drexel University in 1973 with a degree in Mathematics where he had a mobile DJ business with fellow undergrad Bob Denny, BMTllc’s EVP of Technology.