Maxx Myrick

Maxx Myrick is an award winning air personality and radio programmer with over 38 years of experience providing content on local and national levels. He has worked across many technology changes from analog to digital, satellite and Internet delivery platforms.

Skills include working with personalities across many genres including national and international celebrities; and working with artists, management, publicists and record labels. He has experience promoting large and small concerts, and has been a producer of long and short form audio content for radio. He has traveled extensively and has a unique understanding of the music of Brazil, Africa and the Caribbean and a thorough knowledge of blues, jazz, early rock & roll, soul and R&B genres.

From 2011-2015 Maxx was the Director of Operations and Programming for WHUR in Washington, DC, the flagship station of the Howard University Radio Network. (WHUR, WHUR World-HD2, WHBC-HD3, H.U.R. Voices-Sirius XM 141, HBCU-Sirius-XM 142, and Glasshouseradio.com). From 2000 – 2008 he worked for XM Satellite Radio in New York City where he created the Real Jazz channel the nations largest satellite jazz channel which he and built and maintained an average of over 1 million listeners. Broadcasting daily from studios in Jazz At Lincoln Center, he produced the weekly program “In The Swing Seat with Wynton Marsalis and the Real Jazz radio program heard daily on United Airlines flights worldwide from 2003-2008. In addition he programmed the nations only satellite radio “Neo Soul Channel XM 61 “The Flow” and “Latin Jazz Channel XM 75 Luna.

Prior to coming to XM Satellite Radio Maxx was Operations Manager/Program Director at Clear Channel Chicago’s WVAZ and 106 Jamz where he built the station into a top tier market revenue business, maintaining number 1 ranking in the 25-54 demographic while creating non-traditional revenue streams with annual branded events generating attendance levels of over 650,000 persons.

Throughout his career Maxx created a track record of success as a turnaround expert signing on and changing formats of radio stations in Chicago, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Toledo, OH, Shreveport, LA, Pensacola, FL and Greenville, SC. Myrick is also credited with programming the nations first multi-market satellite radio simulcast with WPLZ and WPLC.

Maxx has worked with the Research Group, Strategic Radio Research, Broadcast Architecture and Critical Mass Media research firms to create strategic action and marketing plans that included outdoor advertising, television and direct mail advertising campaigns.

Myrick is the recipient of every major radio award including: Marconi, Billboard, Gavin, Radio & Records, Black Radio Exclusive, National Black Programmers Coalition, Impact, Urban Network, Midwest Radio and Music Associations Icon Award and the International Black Broadcasters Lifetime Achievement Award as well as awards from the City of New Orleans, US Jaycees Outstanding Young Men of America, Who's Who In American Business Executives and more.

A decorated former United States Marine, the father of four has served on the boards of Jazz Alliance International, Nashville Jazz Workshop and is a member and supporter of National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), John F. Kennedy Center for The Performing Arts, Jazz At Lincoln Center, Washington Performing Arts Society and the Willie Dixon Blues Heaven Foundation.