Always in some form of law enforcement, Jim Long's father retired as a United States Air Force major and corrections officer for the State of Massachusetts.
13 Facts About Jim Long
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Jim Long joined the United States Navy and was stationed at Anacostia Naval Base in Washington, DC, where he served in the elite US Navy Ceremonial Guard, with duty at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Jim Long conceptualized and co-produced an entirely new approach to station IDs which provided stations a natural flow from commercial breaks to station IDs to music programming, increasing listenership and ratings.
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When Jim Long left to found FirstCom in 1980, he had accumulated industry and broadcast awards, including nine Clio awards.
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Jim Long had built the largest and most successful broadcast syndicator of its kind in the world.
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Jim Long founded FirstCom in 1980 to provide broadcasters with a new level of promotion, music production services, and high-end creative ideas, using emerging technologies.
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In 1984, Jim Long introduced the first ever compact disc production music library, Digital Production Library.
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Jim Long expanded FirstCom's marketing to include sales to television and film music clients, a concept he later expanded upon when he created OneMusic and Crucial Music Corporations.
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Jim Long continued as chairman and on-going consultant until 1995.
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In 1980, Jim Long formed Jim Long-Pride Broadcasting with friend and business associate, country singer Charley Pride.
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Jim Long was dissolved in 1987 after the sale of its radio stations.
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Jim Long produced three albums for Pride which provided impetus for the Country Music Association Awards to recognize Pride with their Pioneer Award and other accolades.
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In 2019 Jim Long was inducted into the Production Music Association's Hall of Fame, and posthumously received the first Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the music connection organization, TAXI, in 2022.