Cheap-O

My Bio: Anthony-Lynn "Cheap-O" Kirkland today is at the helm of a fully integrated entertainment company. He is a rare creative force in the entertainment industry with an innate ability to develop unique strategic business plans for Kirkland Media’s diverse media businesses while identifying emerging growth opportunities for the company in each realm. Kirkland focuses the bulk of his energies towards creating vertically integrated business strategies into optimal cash flow revenue streams while leaving the principle duties of delegation and implementation of his ideas and business strategies to the rest of the senior management team.Cheap-O grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and attended Northside High School for the Performing Arts. In 1989 Cheap-O started an internship at WVEE V103, which at the time, was the only urban radio station in the Atlanta market. While at V-103, Cheap-O had the opportunity to work with such industry legends as Ryan Cameron and Joyce Little. As an intern he was allowed to watch the behind the scene aspects of running a media company, however it was another nine years before Cheap-O would see it payoff.In September of 1997 Cheap-O moved to Boston, Massachusetts to create an urban recording studio called Mass Sound Recording Studio. The plan was to make a studio that could serve as a launching pad for artists in the region. After approaching in excess of 50 bankers, Cheap-O was able to secure a $25,000 business loan from Bank of America which he repaid six months.In the summer of 2001 Cheap-O chose to move back to Atlanta, Georgia where the idea for the Kirkland Media Entertainment Campus was launched. Cheap-O is a focused and energetic entrepreneur with over 16 years experience as a record producer, sound engineer, and small business owner. His talent has been a magnet to urban recording artists all over the East Coast. Kirkland works tirelessly at his motivating impulse to transform Kirkland Media into a global leader in the creation, production, distribution, licensing, and marketing of all forms of entertainment and their related businesses. Cheap-O has a track record of success resulting in his being recognized for his achievements by organizations such as Black Enterprise Magazine, Business Week Magazine, MTV, Viacom, and The Atlanta Business Chronicle.