Rob Gordon
President & General Manager, WPLN
Rob was born in 1951 on the Key West, Florida Naval Submarine Base. After high school in Arlington, Virginia, Rob attended Maryville College and the University of Tennessee.
Rob was the Jazz/Folk and Ethnic music program officer at the National Endowment for the Arts from 1975 to 1979, leaving to join National Public Radio's Station Relations department and was named that department's director in 1983. Rob left NPR in 1987 and, following one year as a Policy Analyst for NTIA's Public Telecommunications and Facilities Program, became manager of WSSU-FM in Springfield, Illinois. Rob moved to Nashville in 1995 to become President & General Manager of WPLN - Nashville Public Radio.
Under Rob's direction, WPLN has successfully separated from Metro government, placed two FM repeater stations on the air, constructed new studios, and purchased an AM station.
Rob cycles, attempts to play jazz piano and watches movies. Rob and his wife Ann have two daughters, Mary-Gray and Emily, both of whom attend college in Nashville.
