Jay Frank is Senior Vice President, Music Strategy for CMT.  Frank oversees CMT’s Music and Talent division, and all of the network’s on-air and digital music initiatives across multiple platforms, including CMT’s vast range of properties such as films, games, touring and other program enterprise businesses. 

Frank came to CMT from Yahoo! Music where he was Vice President of Music Programming and Label Relations, responsible for all the company’s music programming, working closely with record labels and managers to oversee artist promotions.  While at Yahoo! Music (formerly LAUNCH), Frank was credited with growing its audience exponentially to a current monthly audience of approximately 25 million people.

Prior to joining Yahoo! Music, Frank was senior music director at The Box Music Network, managing all daily music activity on the music video network and coordinating programming efforts that resulted in the network's first Emmy award.  He has also acted as marketing and A&R for Ignition Records, managed a live music venue, programming broadcast radio stations and creating two local music video shows.