Broadcast alum returns as KXCV general manager

Rodney Harris, Albany, has been named general manager of KXCV/KRNW, the 100,000-watt National Public Radio voice of Northwest Missouri State University.

Harris, who studied broadcasting at Northwest before graduating in 1978, is a veteran commercial radio professional who has long been associated with KAAN AM-FM in Bethany and KMRN-AM and KKWK FM, in Cameron. He begins his new duties April 21.

As general manager, Harris will oversee a professional staff of six and a student staff of between 25 and 30. The station provides news, sports, entertainment and public affairs programming to listeners in northern Missouri, southern Iowa and parts of southeastern Nebraska and northeastern Kansas.

“I’m excited about the opportunity to return to Northwest as general manager of KXCV/KRNW,” Harris said. “It has been a dream of mine to be in a position to give back to the University that gave me so much. I’m confident that my successful 30-year career in commercial radio was due in large part to the education and experience I received at Northwest.”

After college, Harris joined the Shepherd Group, a Missouri broadcasting company, as an account executive for KAAN. He became the station’s general manager in 1987 and assumed GM responsibilities for both the Bethany and Cameron stations in 1999.

KXCV, which operates as a department of Northwest’s Office of University Relations, was the first full-power public radio station in Missouri. In 1993, the station expanded its service through KRNW, a repeater station located in Chillicothe.

For more information, please contact:

Anthony Brown,
News Bureau Manager
E-Mail: abrown@nwmissouri.edu
Phone: 660.562.1704
Fax: 660.562.1900

Northwest Missouri State University
219 Administration Building,
800 University Drive
Maryville, MO 64468

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