Season 1 Episode 7 - Tim Riley

My guest on this episode is Tim Riley, Tim is what’s called a promotion man. Record promotion is the division of a record company that places songs on the radio. They build relationships with program directors and music directors at radio stations and try to get them to play their records. They may also contract a third party, known as an independent promotion man or woman, whose responsibility is to take their artist's new song and get it on the radio by any means necessary. Tim is an independent promotion man who has many stories about his promotions to draw attention to the records he was working and some he just liked.