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Entertainer and entrepreneur Nick Cannon was named Chief Creative Officer at struggling electronics chain RadioShack on Wednesday. (Photo: Getty Images for Nickelodeon) 
  
 RadioShack's desperation to regain relevancy collided with pop culture Wednesday when it named entertainment mogul Nick Cannon as its chief creative officer. 
  
 For the electronics chain, which has been trying to remake itself under new ownership after filing for bankruptcy protection early this year, the appointment means an opportunity to distance the brand from its 1980s-era reputation and appeal to Millennials. 
  
 The hope is that Cannon will help with "innovating in the consumer electronics space and particularly the space that empowers young people," RadioShack Chief Marketing Officer Michael Tatelman told USA TODAY. Tatelman declined to discuss Cannon's compensation. 
  
 The role isn't necessarily surprising for Cannon, who has carved out a niche for himself in the entertainment industry as not only a performer, but also as a businessman and entrepreneur, particularly in electronics. 
  
 .@RadioShack is back! So excited to announce that I'm officially part of the fam as their new Chief Creative Officer. #RSncredibleCCO — Nick Cannon (@NickCannon) December 2, 2015 
  
 Cannon will work with RadioShack to develop exclusive products and advance the company's education and STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) initiatives. He is also slated to put on events and performances, as well as curate playlists for the company's 1,733 stores. 
  
 The announcement is the first positive news to come from struggling RadioShack in a while, says Richard Doherty, research director of Envisioneering, a tech-focused market research company. 
  
 "There’s a whole generation that’s grown up not sure what RadioShack offers," compared to chains like GameStop, Best Buy and Walmart, he says. "If (Cannon) takes an active roll and starts messaging that it's not just batteries and cables, it could be the best thing to happen to them in the last two or three years." 
  
 While Cannon's role came together in recent months, in some ways it has been 27 years in the making. Cannon, 35, said his relationship with RadioShack began at the age of eight, when he started frequenting his neighborhood San Diego store after inheriting stereo equipment from his grandfather that he didn't understand how to use. It's where the DJ and rapper bought his first microphone and learned how to assemble a sound system. 
  
 "I always had an affinity for the brand," he says. Now he hopes to instill his passion in the next generation of entrepreneurs. "I want people to understand that it’s a brand that is innovative. It’s for the thinkers and the doers of today’s Millennial generation." 
  
 Cannon will have an office at RadioShack's headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas and plans to be there "as much as I possibly can." 
  
 Cannon will have to fit in time for RadioShack while also addressing many other duties. He hosts NBC's 'America's Got Talent,' is the chairman of TeenNick for Nickelodeon and founder of production agency, Ncredible Entertainment. Through Ncredible, he released his own 8" Android tablet and developed a line of headphones with electronics company Monster. This month, Cannon will start filming a new Nickelodeon series with Monster, where child and teen entrepreneurs pitch their products for potential backing. 
  
 Cannon says he hopes to expand his product line for RadioShack, which is trying to stage a comeback. After years of tanking sales and failing to keep up with the rapidly changing consumer electronics industry, RadioShack filed for bankruptcy protection in February and sold more than half its stores. General Wireless, an affiliate of hedge fund Standard General, acquired the leases of 1,733 stores in April and started reinvigorating the brand by sprucing up the stores, striking new product partnerships and working to make sure items were consistently in stock. 
  
 Although other retailers such as Apple and Amazon are seen as more cutting edge with the latest tech products, RadioShack still has a solid customer base that frequents the stores in search of cables or equipment for circuit boards, Tatelman says. 
  
 Cannon is passionate about both DIY electronics and products like stylish headphones, and Tatelman promises he will serve as more than just a famous face. 
  
 "I've seen so many partnerships with quote unquote a brand ambassador," he says. "This is not that. This is a guy who authentically believes he can make a difference in peoples' lives through our brand." 
  
 Contributing: USA TODAY's Mike Snider and Jayme Deerwester 
  
 Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/1Qf7DwY ||||| If you've seen actor, rapper, America's Got Talent host, and TeenNick chairman Nick Cannon in the news lately, you might have assumed it was due to his performance in an upcoming Spike Lee joint about violence in Chicago's south side. But on Wednesday, the entertainer had news from an entirely different dimension when he announced that he had added another feather to his not-quite-Pharrell-sized hat: chief creative officer at RadioShack. 
  
 Does this "hire" mean anything more than seeing Cannon's face on advertisements, as has been the case with many other major tech company celebrity hires? RadioShack certainly wants us to think so, as the company's announcement gave a vague list of Cannon's CCO duties, the biggest of which appears to be the "development of RadioShack-exclusive products." Cannon will also be tasked with in-store music curation, event promotion, and helping the company "continue to grow" its educational and STEM-specific initiatives. RadioShack didn't specify what existing educational initiatives it is running, and its home page currently offers no official information about such initiatives. 
  
 The announcement did recall a story from Cannon's youth, in which he broke a stereo that he'd taken apart then went to a RadioShack in his home of San Diego to get help fixing it—where he eventually figured out how to assemble and modify his own sound systems. (In other interviews, Cannon has boasted that as a kid, he'd figured out how to connect telephones to turntables and "make hold music.") 
  
 Further Reading Celebrity endorsements: Turning tech companies around since 2010 "RadioShack is a brand that matters," Cannon said in the announcement. "As a kid, spending time in my neighborhood RadioShack was invaluable. The maker mentality and educational approach taught me a lot and encouraged me to explore my own creativity. In return I wanted to give back by fostering creative pursuits in others, and helping kids move to the next level." 
  
 However, while Cannon has launched tech ventures over the past few years, the results have spoken less to RadioShack's maker mentality and more to its modern, suffering incarnation, including budget-priced tablets sold on QVC and Beats-like headphones. Cannon previously served as an "entertainment ambassador" for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, apparently to promote a line of "Ncredible" tablets. Those devices included a built-in multimedia sharing app designed to let aspiring entertainers pitch their acts directly to Cannon's production company. (As of press time, the official Ncredible site's online store wouldn't load.) 
  
 Until today, the last major announcement about the state of RadioShack (after its filing for bankruptcy and delisting from the NYSE earlier this year, that is) came in July when the company was acquired by General Wireless for $26.2 million. |||||

Amazingly, RadioShack not only still exists, it has made a big hire: Nick Cannon was on Wednesday named chief creative officer. (As Sam Machkovech at Ars Technica notes, "Actor/rapper Nick Cannon is also Radio Shack's new Chief Shirtless Officer, from the look of that Twitter profile photo.") At USA Today, Hadley Malcolm frames the move as part of "RadioShack's desperation to regain relevancy" and reports that the intention is to make the brand cool to millennials. It has apparently been cool to Cannon, 35, since he was 8 years old. Per a press release, a young Cannon inherited his grandfather's stereo equipment, and, "after taking apart the components and not knowing how to put the equipment back together, Cannon turned to his neighborhood RadioShack in San Diego for help." He ended up with "the best sound system in the area." As for what Cannon will do for the company, he'll "create a lot of cool things," says Cannon. RadioShack gets more specific: The CCO "will maintain an office at RadioShack headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas"; design playlists for what USA Today reports are 1,733 stores; help develop exclusive products; and "further transform the retailer into the must-visit electronics destination."