program director

noun

: one in charge of planning and scheduling program material for a radio or television station or network

Examples of program director in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Before Copeland’s program director tenure, the station struggled in its ratings battle against 95.7 The Game for months. Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 24 May 2024 Prior to joining Cumulus in Nashville, Daily was program director at Beasley’s WQYK in Tampa and before that spent 17 years in vaulted roles across the Clear Channel/iHeartRadio empire. Marc Schneider, Billboard, 17 May 2024 Alexandria Boehm, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University and principal investigator and program director for WastewaterSCAN, said wastewater surveillance really got going during the pandemic. Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024 Geddy in the documentary recalls growing up in Toronto and the contribution of CFNY program director David Marsden in the 1980s. Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for program director 

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Word History

First Known Use

1901, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of program director was in 1901

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“Program director.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/program%20director. Accessed 7 Jun. 2024.

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