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U:SA Planning Committee and Board
Eleven station managers from around the country comprised the original U:SA Planning Committee. They included:
Officers:
Craig Beeby, President, KOSU-FM, Stillwater, OK
Pat Monteith, Vice President, WUMB-FM, Boston, MA
Regina Dean, Secretary, WUOT-FM, Knoxville, TN
Judy Jankowski, Treasurer, KLON-FM, Long Beach, CA
Planning Committee members also included:
Arlen Diamond, KSMU-FM, Springfield, MO
Bob Franklin, KASU-FM, Jonesboro, AR
Dennis Kita, KUOP-FM, Stockton, CA
Caryn Mathes, WDET-FM, Detroit, MI
Jim Paluzzi, KBSU-AM/FM, Boise, ID
John Stark, KNAU-FM, Flagstaff, AZ
JoAnn Urofsky, WUSF-FM, Tampa, FL
Linda Carr, Carr Communications
KOSU-FM Stillwater, Oklahoma
Craig Beeby has been involved in commercial and public broadcasting since 1974. He has been the KOSU General Manager since 1980. Under Mr. Beeby's leadership KOSU has won 208 awards, raised over $9 million and is recognized nationally and internationally for broadcast news excellence. Craig originated the story idea that ultimately won the equivalent of the "Pulitzer Prize," the "duPont Columbia Broadcast Journalism Award." In 2002, he received the Scripps Howard Foundation's National Journalism Award. Craig has been a broadcast consultant and trainer on the international level in the South Pacific and Europe. He was a broadcasting consultant to 14 nations. In February of 1998, Craig represented the United States when he traveled to Albania to train the broadcaster managers in that country. He has trained radio and television professionals around the United States and helps develop training programs for broadcast meetings and leadership programs nationwide. Craig is the past President of "Public Radio in Mid America" the largest professional public radio organization representing 100 members in a 20-state region. He is a graduate of Oklahoma State receiving both Bachelor's & Master's degrees.
WUOT-FM, Knoxville, TN
Regina N. Dean has been involved in public radio for more than 20 years, the last four as Executive Director of WUOT FM at the University of Tennessee. As WUOT's Executive Director, she is responsible for planning and administering operational, financial and personnel activities of the station and manages a staff of ten full-time and fifteen part-time employees. WUOT is a charter member of National Public Radio (NPR) and is one of the oldest FM non-commercial stations in the Southeast, celebrating its 50th year of broadcasting in 1999. Prior to coming to UT, Ms. Dean served as general manager of KLRE/KUAR in Little Rock, Arkansas, which, at the time, were co-licensed to a university and a public school district.
Her experience in public broadcasting also includes program production, fundraising and grantsmanship. She holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a Master's degree in Public Administration from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is a
former member of the Board of Directors of National Public Radio (NPR) where she served on the Distribution/Interconnect committee and was chairman of the Membership Committee. She has been an active member of Public Radio in Mid America (PRIMA) and Southern Public Radio (SPR). In addition, she has served as a peer panelist for the Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP) and has served as a member of the Public Radio Conference Task Force.
KSMU-FM, Springfield, MO
Arlen Diamond has been general manager, KSMU-FM, since 1978. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa; was a panelist for NTIA TELECOM 2000: Charting the Course for a New Century, NTIA's 1988 review of national telecommunications policy; testified before the FCC on the psychological barriers to AM listening at the 1989 En Banc Hearing on the Matter of the AM Broadcast Service; is past president of the Missouri Public Radio Association; and was a member of the PRIMA board.
KLON-FM, Long Beach, CA
Judy D. Jankowski, KLON-FM88.1 General manager has 19 years of experience as a general manager in public radio, and over 30 years of broadcast experience.
Ms. Jankowski came to KLON in 1994 with a strong background in station development and innovation, gaining local, regional and national awards and recognition in music programming and news and information development for stations, including WBHM in Birmingham, Alabama; KUHF in Houston, Texas; and WDUQ in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. In addition, Ms. Jankowski has served on several industry boards, including the Southern Educational Communications Association, the Texas Public Broadcasting Association, and Public Radio in Mid-America. She is currently serving as Vice-Chair of the California Public Radio Association.
Under Ms. Jankowski's leadership, KLON has become the most listened-to jazz station in the world. It has been ranked the third most listened-to public radio station in the Unitied States. KLON has also received the radio industry Gavin "Jazz Station of the Year" award for the past two years. In less than four years she has retired an inherited $500,000 debt and has put the station on solid financial ground. And, since her arrival, KLON has had its most successful fund drives to date, illustrating Ms Jankowski's commitment to providing the highest quality service to communities, both locally in Southern California, and to cable and satellite audiences nationwide.
WDET-FM, Detroit, MI
Caryn Mathes is General Manager of WDET and is credited with eliminating the station's debt by increasing contributions from listeners and corporate donors. Ms. Mathes began at WDET as News Director and was promoted to her present position two years later. Since then, audience size and overall revenue generated have more than doubled, listener contributions have tripled and corporate underwriting has quadrupled.
From a staff reporter for the daily newspaper of Indiana State University, to the prime time co-anchor of her hometown CBS affiliate, WTHI-TV in Terre Haute, Indiana, she has made it a priority to really know the community in which she lives. Concern for local events allowed her to contribute to both daily and weekly newspaper publications. She reported on educational affairs and supervised on-location film sessions, enhancing live street coverage for WTHI-TV. In writing and editing the news for WCKY-AM, Cincinnati, Ohio, and covering city government, she developed the skills to deliver an accurate and interesting report without the luxury of an accompanying camera.
Mathes has been recognized by her peers with the "Outstanding Woman in Top Radio Management award" from American Women in Radio & Television/Detroit chapter (1989); a "Pioneer Award" from Michigan Corporation for Public Broadcasting (1987); and the YWCA/YMCA Minority Achiever Award (1986). She is a member at large of the executive committee of the Michigan Association of Public Broadcasters; on the Board of Directors of the Michigan Public Radio Network; and on the advisory board of WSU's Journalism Institute for Minorities (an honors program).
WUMB-FM, Boston, MA
Pat Monteith serves as General Manager of WUMB-FM. As a student, she was one of the founders of the station. She moved up through the ranks from Business Manager, then to Music Director, and on to her present position. Under Ms. Monteith's guidance, what began as closed circuit student station, has grown to the four-station UMass Boston Public Radio Network, with separately licensed stations in Boston, Central Massachusetts, and AM/FM stations on Cape Cod. The Network operates with a $1.3 million budget. She supervised the layout, planning and design of the network's offices and studios and developed all associated departments for the operation, from programming to development. Monteith is also Executive Director of Commonwealth Journal, a half-hour newsmagazine produced by WUMB and syndicated throughout New England. She also initiated the annual Boston Folk Festival and serves as its Executive Director.
In addition to her post as General Manager, Ms. Monteith works in a consultant capacity to M & M Communications, Randolph, MA, specializing in commercial and non-commercial radio facilities development. Earlier, Ms. Monteith worked as a producer/announcer at WBUR-FM, Boston; WNTN-AM Radio, Newton; WATD-FM, Marshfield; and Montachusett Cable Television in Fitchburg, MA. She was also an instructor in Radio and Television Broadcast Programming and Management at UMass Boston, Salem State College, and Graham Junior College.
Professional activities include: Vice President for Communications and Chair of Awards Committee, Massachusetts Broadcasters Association; Board Member, New England Folk Arts Network; Chair, Randolph, MA Cable Television Advisory Committee; and Reader, Department of Commerce Public Telecommunications Facilities Project Grants.
KNAU-FM, Flagstaff, AZ
John Stark has been general manager of KNAU, licensed to Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ, since September 1993. Under his leadership KNAU built a five-station network and constructed new state-of-the-art facilities. The station consistently ranks among the public radio system's leaders in market share and per capita contributions. Prior to KNAU, Stark served as program director and assistant GM of KNPR/Las Vegas, NV; associate producer of NPR's Morning Edition in Washington; started up the news department of Radio Bilingue in Fresno, CA; and was a frequent contributor to NPR newsmagazines. He wrote a CPB-funded study entitled Public Radio Contests. Stark is president of Rocky Mountain Public Radio.
WUSF-FM, Tampa, FL
JoAnn Urofsky has 20 years of broadcast experience beginning in 1980 as a disk jockey at a country music station in central Pennsylvania. She continued as a DJ at an MOR station and at a religious station before beginning her public radio career at West Virginia Public Radio. In addition to jazz director duties in West Virginia, Urofsky was a Morning Edition co-host, a news reporter, a production assistant on Mountain Stage, and read for the Radio Reading Service. In 1987 she became Program Director at WAER in Syracuse.
Urofsky moved to Fort Myers, Florida in 1992 as Station Manager of WSFP-FM (now WGCU-FM). She designed a new broadcast facility for the station and obtained a PTFP grant to build a new station on Marco Island. She also produced and hosted broadcasts of the Southwest Florida Symphony and served on that symphony's board as Vice President.
In 1994 she began managing WUSF in Tampa and co-managed both stations until 1996. Under her leadership, WUSF won the FLO award in 1998 and overcame a large financial deficit and built a significant endowment. The station has participated in many research projects including Brilliant on the Basics, the Local News Project, Listener Focused Fundraising and is a member of PRISA.
Urofsky currently serves on the board of the Station Resource Group and the board of the Radio Research Consortium. She was President of the Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio from 1989 till 1992 and served on the PRPD board of directors from 1992 - 1998. She is Vice President of Outreach of Network of Executive Women and a member of Leadership Tampa 2000.
Urofsky obtained her bachelor's degree from Penn State and her master's from Syracuse University.
Carr Communications
Linda Carr is President of Carr Communications, a multifaceted firm which focuses on the areas of management, licensee and Board relations, as well as development and marketing, primarily within the public broadcasting industry. Ms. Carr, founder of the firm, has twenty-five years of broad-based experience in public broadcasting. Prior to founding Carr Communications fourteen years ago, she worked in a variety of marketing, development and management capacities within the public radio industry. The crowning point of that facet of her career was building the eight-station, statewide Public Radio in Mississippi network.
Ms. Carr's client base includes national, regional and local nonprofit and private sector organizations, along with public radio and television stations of all market sizes and licensee types. Among her client base are National Public Radio, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Development Exchange, Inc., Books on Tape, Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Commission, the Public Radio Partnership, Louisville, Kentucky; WUSF-FM/TV, Tampa, FL; Texas Public Radio, San Antonio, TX; WCPN-FM, Cleveland, OH; KJZZ/KBAQ-FM, Phoenix, AZ; and KSUI-FM/WSUI-AM, Iowa City, IA.
Several career highlights include: coordinating NPR's first national awareness campaign, after which the national audience increased 37%; serving as the Acting CEO of the Development Exchange, Inc., bringing the organization through a financial crisis; and serving as the consultant to the Public Radio Partnership through the planning and implementation phase of the new organization-the first time in public radio history that three stations, licensed to two different institutional licensees, have merged successfully under a community-licensed Board.
