NAPLES, FLA. — He served as Sr. VP and Market Manager of the Audacy Inc. radio stations in Kansas City under the company’s previous incarnation as Entercom until departing in October 2020. In fact, he had been running the stations since 2007, and arrived in the home of Royals and Chiefs in October 2003 upon being named Susquehanna Radio’s Kansas City station group head.
Now, many across the industry are pausing to remember Dave Alpert, who has passed away from cancer. He is believed to be 66 years of age.
Alpert’s career includes a role as the head of the Nashville stations owned by Clear Channel Communications, the giant that became iHeartMedia. After exiting Kansas City fall 2020, he relocated to Southwest Florida.
There, he joined Donna Alpert at Alpine Broadcasting Corp. to serve as General Manager of its lone station — WAVV-FM 101.1. Alpine was founded by the late Norm Alpert, who died in 2018. With the June 2022 announced sale of WAVV to Fort Myers Broadcasting Co., Dave Alpert began to plan his retirement, which transpired in early 2023.
It marked the end of a career that began at the famed WBLM-FM in Portland, Me., under Fuller Jeffery Group ownership in 1981, while wrapping up studies at Babson College. After 18 months, Alpert moved back to Boston to become a National Sales Manager and account executive for CBS Radio.
As 1987 began, family called — bringing him to Beautiful Music giant WAVV “Wave 101” for the first time, as General Sales Manager. He would rise to VP/General Manager, and then relocate to then co-owned WISP-FM in Sarasota as GM. This was in April 1992. In August 1995, a sale to Entercom transpired … perhaps foreshadowing future opportunities.
Once WISP-FM was sold, Dave Alpert would relocate to Upstate South Carolina, as Alpine owned the former WPEK-FM in Greenville-Spartanburg. He ran that station as GM until September 2000, when Cox Media Group acquired the property. That transaction led him to relocate to Nashville, joining Clear Channel.
News of Dave Alpert’s passing was shared in a private Facebook post by his wife, Angela, who explained that she chose to keep a four-year cancer battle off of social media. A Celebration of Life is being planned by family members.
