| Summary: | Broadcast and media executive Skip Finley was born on July 23, 1948 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He studied at Northeastern University in Boston, and in 1971, started working as a floor manager at Boston's WHDH-TV. In 1974, he joined Sheridan Broadcasting Corporation's Radio Division as a sales manager at WAMO AM-FM radio in Pittsburgh. He was promoted to the division's vice president in 1976 and later, in 1981, president of Sheridan Broadcasting Networks. In 1982, Finley founded Albimar Communications, Inc., which owned popular black radio station, WKYS-FM. From 1995 to 1998, he served as CEO of American Urban Radio Networks. From 2001 to 2011, he served as Inner City Broadcasting Corporation's chairman. Finley joined the Vineyard Gazette Media Group as director of sales in 2012, and also wrote for the Gazette's Oak Bluffs Town Column. In 2015, Finley founded M&M Community Development, Inc., to educate students on professional radio station operation.
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