Dave Edwards, Chair

Edwards, who has led Milwaukee Public Radio since 1985, has increased local fundraising, built a new state of the art facility and expanded news coverage.  WUWM was among the first public radio stations to convert to an all news and information format.  WUWM also participated in the national "Sense of Place" research project designed to help focus local news coverage.  Dave is a member of the University/Station Alliance board and also serves on the NPR board.

Joanne Church, President

Joanne Church has been associated with Radio Research Consortium since its inception in 1981.  She was named President in 2005.  She also oversees the production process of RRC Product Packages that Arbitron subscribers purchase.  Before the RRC, Joanne worked for the Arbitron Company for ten years in various positions including systems design and Manager of Production and Radio Market Reports.

Ken Davis has more than thirty years of experience in Chicago radio and television.  As Director of Chicago Municipal Television, Ken created an award-winning 24-hour information service on the city-owned cable channels that highlighted the programs, personalities and events of city government.  He was Program Director of Chicago's public radio station, WBEZ, for more than ten years and its first news director.  Ken also served for five years as communications director for the City of Chicago's Department of Environment.  He has served on a variety of boards and has a strong interest in the technical aspects of media.

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.

Craig Oliver is a research consultant for Public Radio International, The Development Exchange and public radio stations. He is a co-presenter of PRPD's Beyond the Basics workshop.  Craig was the co-founder and first president of PRPD before serving as head of network operations for PRI.  For WAMU, Washington DC, Oliver was program director and news director.  In between stints elsewhere, Craig served as President of RRC.

John E. Perry served as General Manager and Executive Director for WKSU radio from 1971 to 1998, leading its multi-station growth to become Ohio's most listened to public radio service for 17 straight years.  Always interested in emerging technologies, WKSU became the first public radio station in the nation to regularly stream programming over the Internet.  In 1998, Perry was promoted to Associate VP for Marketing and Communications where he developed the Kent State's national CASE Award-winning integrated marketing campaign.  He also assisted in the development of the university's first 100 million capital campaign.  He retired from the university in 2002 but continues to serve on area boards and consult in marketing and management.

Gary Shivers was founding Chairman of RRC, 1981-1994, and continues to serve as a member of the board.  He began his career in radio news in Kansas City, followed by gigs as News Director and Program Director at KANU (1968-1975), founding PD and General Manager at WUNC (1975-1990), and GM at KMUW (1990-1993). He served on the NPR board and worked with more than fifty stations as CPB consultant.  He taught jazz history at Duke University and remains an avid collector and writer based in KC.

Scott Williams has been a program director since 1976 and has headed programming at all-news KJZZ and classical KBAQ in Phoenix since 1989.  Williams served on the Public Radio Program Directors Association board, chaired the group for two years and has led its annual PD workshop for 13 years.  He was a trainer for RRC workshops for four years, and he is also part of Strategic Programming Partners, currently leading the Morning Edition Grad School project.  He was teaching assistant for Howard Stern's first communications class at Boston University.