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Bill Buckmaster (Contact) Managing Editor and Anchor, Arizona Illustrated With more than 4,000 interviews with political, business, community and social leaders under his belt, on January 3, 2008, Bill Buckmaster celebrated 20 years with KUAT Channel 6. The anchor and managing editor for Arizona Illustrated has been a ... |
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Achilles Calenti (Contact) Achilles "Cheech" Calenti, Information Systems Manager, Cheech designs, operates, and administers high-speed communication network facilities for Arizona Public Media. He has been employed at the University of Arizona since 1987 and holds a BA in Music Composition and a M.S. in Music Theory from the ... |
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Pat Callahan (Contact) Patricia Callahan, Director, Member Services As the Director of Member Services, Pat is responsible for all aspects of the membership program for Arizona Public Media and its stations, including management of mail solicitation, telemarketing, online and on-air fundraising, and other activities designed to generate membership ... |
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Luis Carrión (Contact) Producer Luis Carrión is an award winning producer at Arizona Public Media, and contributes stories for television, radio, and on-line. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona Media Arts Program. His work often highlights the extraordinary stories that are ... |
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Christopher Conover (Contact) Producer Christopher Conover joined the KUAT/KUAZ team in January of 2005. Conover's main beats are politics, the military, and the environment, and he brings a wealth of expertise to the position. He began his news career in 1989 as ... |
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Kimberly Craft (Contact) Producer As the education reporter for KUAT Kimberly Craft takes direction from her conviction that students come first. “I want the people of Arizona to be accountable to their children, and not just pay lip service,” she says. Craft arrived at ... |
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Ann-Eve Cunningham (Contact) Ann-Eve Cunningham, Director Development As the Director of Development, Ann-Eve is responsible for the major gift development for Arizona Public Media and its stations, including management of major donor stewardship and cultivation activities, and other activities designed to generate support for the organization. Before ... |
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Jack Gibson (Contact) Jack Gibson is the Director and General Manager of Arizona Public Media® – the member-supported non-profit media organization of The University of Arizona, this year celebrating 50 years of public broadcasting service to Southern Arizona. Arizona Public Media (AZPM) broadcasts PBS stations KUAT Channel 6 and KUAS Channel 27; Digital TV Channels 6-1 PBS-HD; 6-2 V-me (en español); 6-3 Create; KUAS Channel 27-1 PBS-HD; 27-2 PBS Kids; 27-3 PBS World, the UA Channel (Cox 116 ... |
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Hector Gonzalez (Contact) Hector Gonzalez, Dir. Online & New Media Hector is responsible for developing, implementing and coordinating internet strategy and website operations for Arizona Public Media. His career spans more than three decades in media and broadcasting; working as a reporter, producer, director and executive producer. Hector has also ... |
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Kimberly Heath (Contact) Kimberly Heath, Director, Finance & CFO Kimberly is responsible for the financial and human resources operations at Arizona Public Media including financial management, budgeting, long range planning and forecasting. She is also responsible for the preparation of audited financial statements as required by the Corporation for ... |
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Susie Hernandez (Contact) Susie Hernandez, Director Television Programming Susie Hernandez joined Arizona Public Media as its Television Program Director in September 2008. Susie served for ten years in various capacities including, most recently, the Associate Director of Broadcast at the Independent Television Service (ITVS) in San Francisco, an ... |
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Dana Horner (Contact) Dana Horner, General Sales Manager Dana oversees the Underwriting sales effort for the radio and television properties as well as online media. Since 1982 he served as General Manager for commercial radio stations and groups of stations in Seattle, Detroit, New York City, Salt Lake ... |
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John Kelley (Contact) John Kelley, Director, TV and Radio Services John Kelley has been KUAT-FM and KUAZ-AM/FM station manager since 2002. Before joining Arizona Public Media, he served as assistant general manager of classical WBJC-FM in Baltimore, Maryland and operations director and morning announcer for classical WDAV-FM in Charlotte ... |
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Sooyeon Lee (Contact) Producer Sooyeon Lee Johnston joined Arizona Public Media in 1996 as a member of the station’s student crew. She was a videographer, director and editor and eventually worked her way up to producer in 2000. Lee is now Arizona’s ... |
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Laura Markowitz (Contact) Producer Laura Markowitz comes to radio after a 22-year career as a magazine writer and editor. Her cover stories have appeared in Utne Reader Glamour, Ms, Mademoiselle, Tricycle, Self and many other publications. She tries not to cringe at the titles ... |
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Mark McLemore (Contact) Host/Producer, Arizona Spotlight Mark McLemore has been the host of Arizona Public Media's Arizona Spotlight since July 2007. Mark originally started at KUAZ in 1994 as a jazz DJ and he has enjoyed playing music for listeners on Friday nights ever since ... |
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Peter Michaels (Contact) Peter Michaels, Director, News and Information Peter Michaels is news director and executive producer for the radio and television news and information content producers. With 30-plus years of news management and programming experience, his career includes writing, producing, creating, long-form programming and management of producers, reporters ... |
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Tony Paniagua (Contact) Producer Tony Paniagua joined Arizona Public Media in 2005, but he’s returning to Tucson for the second time in his career. Originally from Colombia, Paniagua has lived in New York, Pennsylvania, Florida and Texas in addition to Arizona. After he ... |
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Robert Rappaport (Contact) Producer/Web Content Robert Rappaport was born in the Chicago-area, but considers himself a Tucson native, having lived here since he was three years old. Robert graduated from the University of Arizona, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Radio-TV, with a minor in ... |
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David Ross (Contact) David Ross, Director Engineering & Technical Services David is responsible for all of technical services, planning and purchases. His current responsibilities include planning and implementing the new digital technology and the digital conversion. David has more than 30 years in broadcast engineering and has held various jobs ... |
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Fran Sherlock (Contact) Fran Sherlock, Manager, TV Production As Production Manager for Channel 6, Fran manages all the support personnel for KUAT TV’s production department. These include the videographers, television directors, studio coordinator, the full-time and part-time production crew and the production secretary. He produces and directs ... |
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Wendy Erica Werden (Contact) Wendy Erica Werden, APR Director, Marketing & Brand Management As the Director of Marketing & Brand Management, Wendy Erica is responsible for directing all marketing and branding efforts and external communications from print ads and publications to on-air promotions, press relations, community events and paid media. She has held a ... |
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Pam White (Contact) Producer Pam White covers both science and medical stories for KUAT. Topics range from how artificial hearts are made (they're handmade) to what the lakes consist of on Titan, one of Saturn’s moons (maybe methane). Besides her work for ... |
































