Chris Malone is Director of Programming and Head of Content at KJLH 102.3 FM in Los Angeles, the station owned by Stevie Wonder. He has spent more than 23 years in radio.

Born in Memphis, he started in broadcasting at 18 as music director and assistant program director at WQOX-FM, and spent three years in TV news as a production assistant and assignment editor. His programming career ran through Memphis, Raleigh-Durham and Greensboro–Winston-Salem, where he launched stations and led afternoon drive.

In Boston, he was founding program director of WKAF 97.7, the city’s first FM adult urban station, and took it to #1 with adults 25–54.

At KJLH he leads programming and content, and is executive producer of Taste of Soul, which draws more than 350,000 people to Crenshaw Boulevard. He is an NAB finalist and an authorized music scheduling consultant for MusicMaster, and has coached more than 365 program directors and general managers nationwide.

He is the founder of Frequency One Media, a Los Angeles company building across audio, digital and live content. He was mentored by Stevie Wonder and Phil Zachary.

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