Robert Steven "Steve" Hicks (born 1950) is an American businessman, who is most closely associated with the radio business, pioneering the concept of local marketing agreement[1] and was the Vice-Chairman of AMFM, Inc, a predecessor of radio station company Clear Channel Communications.
While at the University of Texas, he was also a member of the Silver Spurs which is the honorary service organization responsible for the caretaking of the Longhorn Mascot BEVO.
Over the next 14 years, he acquired stations in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, and South Carolina.
[1] Later, he founded and was chief executive officer of Capstar Broadcasting Corporation, which he also took public on the New York Stock Exchange in 1998.
[5] On February 2, 2005, Hicks was appointed to the board of directors of sound equipment maker SLS International, Inc., a publicly traded company[6](the firm filed chapter 11 in 2009[7]).