For over forty years, Holt Media Group has provided distinctive specialized services to the broadcast and related industries. We employ state-of-the-art technologies, resources and skills to provide our clients with the best services available. The firm’s qualifications include being:

  • Nationally and internationally recognized media appraisers, brokers, management consultants and expert witnesses.
  • Featured speakers on broadcast subjects before a wide variety of organizations.
  • Recognized in the National Forensic Register and other publications as leading experts.
  • Memberships, including executive roles, present and past, in a wide variety of national and international professional broadcast organizations.

Our team includes professionals from a variety of backgrounds including direct broadcast and financial experience. Our projects are generally collaborated to provide our clients with the best from our team. Principals in Holt Media are Arthur H. Holt, President and Christine E. Borger, Executive Vice President. Other Key Personnel include Associate Broker, Carl Strandell.

 

Arthur-H. Holt, founder

Arthur H. Holt – President
2178 Industrial Drive, Suite 914, Bethlehem, PA 18017
(610) 814-2821
artholt@holtmedia.com

The founder of Holt Media Group, Arthur Holt, has many years of experience in the broadcast field. Arthur is a licensed broadcast engineer. Arthur is experienced in all phases of station operation – from sales, and engineering, to the management of over fifty broadcast properties in all areas of the United States.   He has owned and operated more than twenty broadcasting stations.  Arthur has held the position of Executive Vice President of a major New York television and radio representative firm, representing over 150 stations in all the nation’s major markets.

Arthur has testified as an expert witness many times and has been recognized as an expert by courts nationwide. He has been the lead on hundreds of television and radio station sales for the company and has overseen several thousand radio and television appraisal projects. Arthur holds a degree in Television and Radio Broadcasting from the University of Texas at Austin.

Arthur has been a member and served on boards of numerous media organizations including the International Committee of the National Association of Broadcasters, the Media Financial Management Association, the All-Industry Music License Committee, the International Institute of Communications, the World Press Freedom Committee, and the Inter-American Broadcasting Association.

 

Christine E. Borger

Christine E. Borger – Executive Vice President
2178 Industrial Drive, Suite 914, Bethlehem, PA 18017
(610) 814-2821
chrisborger@holtmedia.com

Christine (Chris) Borger has been with Holt Media Group for thirty years, initially serving as Business Manager at the station level and later evolving to CFO for the company’s station group of twenty some stations. She has also been a station owner.  Chris provides the financial expertise for all projects undertaken by Holt. She also provides media brokerage services to clients and a variety of administrative services to the company. Chris’ educational background includes a BS in Business Administration from Clarion University of Pennsylvania with a dual concentration in accounting and finance and an MBA from DeSales University with a certificate in E-Commerce. She is also an Adjunct Instructor at a local college in the Business & Technology Division. Chris has served on the All-Industry Music Licensing Committee for the Media Financial Management Association and is a member of the Lehigh Valley Advertising Club.

 

Carl Strandell

Carl Strandell – Associate Broker
2178 Industrial Drive, Suite 914, Bethlehem, PA 18017
(478) 474-8161 / (478) 737 4950
carlstrandell@holtmedia.com

Carl has worked with Holt Media Group as an Associate Broker since 2006.  Carl is based in Macon, Georgia and concentrates his efforts 100% on brokerage services for Holt Media Group. Carl has a long history of radio – from on-air talent to General Manager. He understands the full spectrum of radio operations. He started in radio in his hometown of Miami at the then #1 rated radio station in the market.

After attending the University of Florida, Carl returned to radio and was a top rated on-air talent in the Jacksonville, Denver, Louisville, and Rochester markets. Later he was Operations Manager, Sales Manager, and  General Manager of individual stations as well as  major corporate radio  group clusters in Oklahoma, Mississippi and Georgia.

Carl began his work in brokerage in 1986 and has brokered the sale of many radio and television stations, particularly in the southwest and southeast United States. During one reporting period Carl was ranked as #1 broker in the nation for generating the greatest number of radio station sales. Carl has been brokering both television and radio for Holt Media during these tough economic times and is an integral part of the Holt Media Group team.