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James de Castro most recently served as Vice Chairman of AMFM Inc., the nation's largest radio broadcasting company. In addition to his Board position, Mr. de Castro was also President and CEO of the Company's Radio Group, its largest division, with revenues of over $1.8 billion in 1999, and Chariman and Chief Executive Officer of AMFMi, the Company's Internet subsidiary focused on developing and managing a national network of local web portals, paired with local AMFM radio stations.

A radio broadcast industry executive for over 25 years, Mr. de Castro has been acknowledged by analysts and trade publications as the industry's leading operations and programming executive, having successfully managed AMFM's growth from six radio stations in 1988 to more than 440 in 1999.

As co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Evergreen Media Corporation (the predecessor to AMFM), Mr de Castro gained national recognition in 1989 by engineering Evergreen's first major station turnaround at KKBT-FM in Los Angeles, transforming a last place station in the nation's most competititive radio market into a top rated station that earned Billboard magazine's 1991 Station of the Year award for Urban Contemporary format. He has since repeated that feat many times, including turnarounds of WRCX-FM Chicago in 1994 and WKTU-FM New York in 1996. He was named Radio Ink magazine's Co-Radio Executive of the Year distinction in 1995, Person of the Year in 1997 by the Broadcast Advertising Club of Chicago and Group Executive of the Year in 1999 by R&R. Mr. de Castro was instrumental in AMFM's creation and rollout of the Jammin' Oldies format which quickly generated ratings success in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago, New York and other markets.

As head of AMFMi, Mr. de Castro initiated and negotiated several transactions which leveraged the value of the Company's radio operations for the Internet, including the creation of CNET Radio, the country's first all-tech radio format; an alliance with RCN Corporation to launch co-branding initiatives to offer Internet services to AMFM's Philladelphia audience; and, a strategic alliance with traffic.com, Inc. whereby traffic.com bacame a national representative for a portion of AMFM's active information spot inventory and provider of traffic reports to AMFM radio stations.

Mr. de Castro is a 1974 Business and Marketing graduate of the University of Colorado and has completed executive course work at Harvard Business School.