Steve Meuche This is Me

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1. 1. The RRC Board

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   Published on: 12/14/2007   Last Visited: 12/14/2007

   Steve Meuche has been a public broadcaster for more than 40 years. Most recently he was general manager of WKAR AM-FM-TV at Michigan State University. He has been on the board of NPR, president of the Michigan Association of Public Broadcasters, chair of a municipal cable television commission and a founder and officer of the Michigan Public Radio Network. Just prior to his retirement from the stations in 2004, he successfully launched WKAR's new digital television and radio stations.

2. 2. DDII Strategic Investment Scenarios

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   Published on: 4/17/2006   Last Visited: 5/14/2007

   Steve Meuche, General Manager, WKAR-FM/TV

3. 3. WKAR Highlights and Events

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   Published on: 10/1/2000   Last Visited: 3/27/2004

   Saying Farewell to Steve Meuche
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   Steve Meuche
   
   Saying Farewell to Steve Meuche
   
   When some managers retire after a career of 38 years, they simply pack up their offices, bid farewell to their colleagues and move on.
   
   When Steve Meuche retires from WKAR this month, he will leave his second floor office, with its window that looks out onto a brick wall, and move up to the fifth floor of the Communication Arts Building. It is in this new space he will begin going through materials from WKAR Radio and Television for the archives of Michigan State University and the National Archives of Public Broadcasting, to ensure their collections have critical materials representing WKAR and the early days of National Public Radio.
   
   Not leaving. Just moving.
   
   It's no wonder Meuche finds it difficult to leave WKAR. "I've spent my entire professional career at Michigan State University," he says proudly - although his career at WKAR began several years before becoming a "professional."
   
   For Steve Meuche, a college freshman from Dayton, Ohio, Michigan State University held two particularly appealing career options-forestry and broadcasting. "When I came here, I wasn't sure," says Meuche. "I thought I wanted to be in forestry-I was shy, didn't want to deal with people, and wanted to talk to the trees." But then he came to WKAR Radio as a student employee, having previously worked at his high school radio station where he did a big band show.
   
   "I worked as a board operator," he recalls, explaining that in the 1960s on-air talent never touched the control panel.
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   It was in 1987 Meuche was appointed acting general manager of WKAR-TV. On January 1, 1989, that position became permanent when he was appointed Director of Broadcasting Services at Michigan State University, a new division in which WKAR television and radio stations and Instructional Video Services were combined.
   
   A career in broadcasting covering 40 years means being part of an era of change. For Meuche, "the most dramatic was the advent of the national networks and the growth of the system.
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   Steve Meuche says he has done his last TV pledge break, but he'll still be visible as part of the Vintage WKAR series airing during the 50th anniversary season. As he works in his new office, pouring through archives and delving into another passion-interpreting and analyzing some of the research instruments used by WKAR, including the Arbitron and Nielsen ratings-and compiling a history of the Michigan Association of Public Broadcasters, he'll finally have a room with a view, with Spartan Stadium in the distance.
   
   The view may be new. But those who know Steve Meuche also know he's had a vision for a long while.