Mike Smith
News Producer, HostMike Smith's career at KSMU began in 1980 as a student announcer when the former Navy Submariner attended (then) SMSU with help from the GI Bill. In 1982 Smith became a full time member of the KSMU family as "Chief Announcer", responsible for the acquisition, training and scheduling of the student announcing staff. It was also in 1982 when Smith first produced "Seldom Heard Music" a broadcast of Bluegrass which is still heard on KSMU and ksmu.org every Saturday night at 7CT.
Until his retirement in 2006, Smith also served KSMU listeners as the stations Senior Producer and Director of News, receiving a 2005 Regional Edward R Murrow award for "Use of Sound" in a feature. Post retirement in a part time capacity, Smith produces the bi-monthly series Making A Difference Where You Live, and the business segments of KSMU's quarterly Sense of Community Series.
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In this round of our ongoing series Making a Difference, we hear first person essays from teachers in the rural Ozarks. This segment features Blane Redus of the Marionville R-9 School District. -
In this segment of Making A Difference, our panel looks at the Public Order and Safety Chapter of the Community Focus Report for Springfield and Greene County. -
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A panel of local experts weigh in on the latest Community Focus Report, looking at red flags and blue ribbons surrounding the environment. -
Five decades after The Ozark Mountain Daredevils formed, band member John Dillon and club owner Curt Hargis remember the band's formative time at The New Bijou Theater. -
Our panel today looks at the CFR chapter on Recreation, Sports and Leisure -
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Today's Making a Difference panel conversation looks at the Community Focus Report's chapter on Arts & Culture
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