Radio Waves: Harvill at Cumulus: ‘It feels like a startup’




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Summary: Doug Harvill was having a blast. As senior VP and market manager for the CBS Radio group in San Francisco, he led the cluster to the heights, with stellar ratings for KCBS, “Alice” and KMVQ (“Now”). But when CBS merged with Entercom last November, with the latter taking over the managerial reins, Harvill, who’d steered the stations for 12 years, was the odd manager out. Harvill, 63, knew he’d be back, somewhere. And, six months later, he was.