Hear the Conversation 15:05 min – 8.6 mb mp3 Peter Whorf is radio station manager for WKAR AM and FM, the public broadcasting and NPR outlet at Michigan State University. Whorf came to MSU from Chicago, where he worked at Chicago Public Radio WBEZ and at WFMT, “one of only two commercial classical radio stations [...]

Hear the Show 54 min – 30 mb mp3 Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon and Spartans Athletic Director Mark Hollis talk with Cumulus Media’s Midwest Regional Vice President Scott Meier about the state and future of terrestrial radio. And they reminisce with Spartan basketball legend Jud Heathcote to find out what he [...]

Hear the Conversation 26:37 – 15.2 mb mp3 One of MSU‘s best friends is WJR morning host Paul W. Smith. “My job as I see it is to try to accentuate the positive,” Smith tells Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon and Spartans Athletic Director Mark Hollis. “I have a positive and upbeat [...]

Hear the Conversation 10:40 min – 6.1 mb mp3 Bruce Vanden Bergh is professor emeritus of advertising at Michigan State University. He says this year’s Super Bowl commercials will feature a lot of automobile companies and that “sex still sells.” Vanden Bergh adds that Super Bowl ads now “have to have an online component, Twitter [...]

Hear the Conversation 21:07 min – 12.mb mp3 By Mackenzie Mohr Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon and Spartans Athletic Director Mark Hollis talk with Scott Westerman, Executive Director of the MSU Alumni Association. Westerman dubs 2012 “the year of the network” for the MSU Alumni Association he says, which has also made [...]

Hear the Conversation 23:37 min – 13.5 mb mp3 Scott Meier is Regional Vice President for Cumulus Media-Midwest, which oversees MSU media partner News/Talk 760 WJR. Meier joins Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon and Spartans Athletic Director Mark Hollis for a wide-ranging discussion on the state and future of the radio industry. “Radio [...]

Michigan State University Alumni Association leader Scott Westerman receives his Michigan Association of Broadcasters “Broadcast Excellence” Award from Spartan Sports Network President Will Tieman for inspiring the wildly popular SSN mobile app. The award is for Best Use of New Media.

Hear the Show 52:31 – 30 mb mp3 In this edition of MSU Today on News/Talk 760 WJR Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon and Spartans Athletic Director Mark Hollis talk with the state of Michigan’s highest-ranking Spartan, Lieutenant Governor Brian Calley, then spend the entire taking calls from listeners on topics like [...]

Hear the Show 53:57 – 30.8 mb mp3 In this edition of MSU Today on News/Talk 760 WJR Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon and Spartans Athletic Director Mark Hollis talk with inspiring MSU gymnast Kathryn Mahoney and her coach Kathie Klages. And they talk with broadcast journalism legend Tim Staudt.

Hear the Show 52:56 – 30.3 mb mp3 From MSU Today on AM 870 WKAR – Russ White talks with MSU President Lou Anna Simon about FRIB funding, state funding for higher education, and the “new realities” President Simon says are impacting higher education. Kirk Heinze shares a couple of his sustainability-focused Greening of the [...]