Former Billboard man Mike McGeever has died at the age of 48 after suffering a heart attack. McGeever worked as Radio Editor for Billboard-owned trade publications Music Monitor and Music & Media throughout the nineties, but later returned to his hometown of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, to work for Schuylkill Community Action. He also hosted a weekly show on classic rock station WPAM 1450.
Jon Heasman, OfCom's manager of commercial radio licensing, who worked with Mike at Billboard and Music and Media, is quoted by Radio Today as saying: "Mike was genuinely loved by all who knew him. He was a very warm, incredibly generous man who - above all - possessed an enormous sense of fun. He was a great journalist and, with his experiences drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, he was also a real authority on music radio, which was a medium he loved".