New York Times Radio Newscaster Steve Powers Retires After 45 Years in Broadcasting
New York Times Radio newscaster, Emmy award winner, author and educator, Steve Powers, Ph.D., retires this month after 45 years in broadcasting.
New York, NY (PRWEB) June 13, 2007 -- New York Times Radio newscaster Steve Powers, Ph.D. retires this month after 45 years in broadcasting. His last day delivering the news for WQXR-FM, NY was officially June 1st. Powers can still be heard broadcasting medical reports for the station. He's been a fixture on the New York scene as an anchor/reporter at WNYW-TV (Channel 5), the host of Steve Powers News-Talk on WMCA, a correspondent at ABC radio network, as well as newscaster on the RKO Radio Network, WQXR, WFAN, WHN. He began his broadcast career in Connecticut at WADS, WICC and WNAB.
Powers won an Emmy Award as part of the Channel 5 team during his 1980-1993 tenure as an anchor/reporter for WNYW-TV in New York. He has also won a NY Press Club Deadline award and a Clio for radio. He earned a Ph.D. in Media Studies at NYU, and taught as an Associate Professor at St. John's University in New York. He is the co-author of How to Watch TV News, with media theory pioneer Neil Postman, Ph.D. Powers is currently preparing a new edition of the book, which is scheduled for publication by Penguin Books in late 2007.
He's retiring after what he describes as "a great adventure for a kid from the Bronx." "What other job will give you the opportunity to meet President Kennedy in the Rose Garden of the White House, play with Dizzy Gillespie at the Blue Note and get chased by a mob in Crown Heights?" Said Powers, "I've met mayors, murderers and the best -- average people making their way through this difficult but rewarding life. I'm one lucky guy."
While working his way through school as a conga drummer, Powers started broadcasting on the student radio station at the University of Virginia, WUVA. During his college years, Powers was also a member of the Jazz Club, which integrated the university auditorium with a concert by bebop legend, Dizzy Gillespie. Powers had the honor of playing with Mr. Gillespie that night, and again 30 years later at New York's famed Blue Note. He has also performed with Tony Bennett, Joe Jones, David Amram and Charlie Palmieri.
Powers presently lives in upstate New York with his wife, Sheri Powers, where he is active in playing music, writing, consulting and broadcasting medical reports on WQXR-FM, NY.
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