Tim Eby
General ManagerTim Eby was the General Manager of St. Louis Public Radio from January of 2009 to September of 2020.
During his tenure, Eby has led St. Louis Public Radio through a period of enormous growth. The station has moved into a state-of-the-art facility, completed a transformative merger with the non-profit, online news outlet the St. Louis Beacon, and significantly increased its broadcast and digital audience and fundraising revenue.
Prior to moving to St. Louis, Eby was the Radio Station Manager for WOSU Public Media at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio from 2004 - 2009. Eby was responsible for managing the day-to-day operations and administration of WOSU's Radio services, including the development and implementation of new programming, budget, operations and staff.
Previously, Eby was Station Manager at WVPE Public Radio in South Bend, Indiana for more than 21 years. There, he was hired as the station's first full-time employee, and was instrumental in evolving WVPE from a student-run operation to one of the leading small market public radio stations in the country. Under Eby's leadership, WVPE won such prestigious awards as the Edward R. Murrow Award for news excellence and the Public Radio Development Award for outstanding growth in membership support.
Eby has been active in both public broadcasting and community organizations. He was just elected to serve a three-year term beginning in November 2018 as a member of the Board of Directors of National Public Radio.
He previously served on NPR Board from 2002 – 2008 and was its Chair from 2004 – 2007. He has served as President of Public Radio in Mid-America (PRIMA), the country's largest public radio regional organization, and on task forces and panels sponsored by NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Station Resource Group and a member of the PRIMA Board of Directors.
He has also worked on behalf of numerous local arts, cultural, and non-profit groups. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Grand Center, Inc. and Heat-Up STL. Eby has a Bachelors of Science degree in Communications from the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana. Eby lives with his wife Kathi in the Central West End in the city of St. Louis.
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The Fellowship will provide the opportunity to pursue in-depth, on-air and online projects that cover race issues in the bi-state region. These reports will leverage on-going PPRC public policy research, as well as build on St. Louis Public Radio’s established ongoing initiative: “St Louis in Black & White” and the “Bound by Division” series.
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The recognition as Champion of the Arts is a perfect fit for us given our commitment to celebrating the arts and culture in the St. Louis region. Each Friday Cityscape showcases the region’s arts happenings at 11 a.m., with the rebroadcast at 10 p.m., and we’re regularly covering the arts with our regional news efforts.
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With this exciting gift from Monsanto Company, the $12 million campaign for a new home for the station is now just $2.6 million from completion. As exciting and important as this announcement is for us at the station, it also resulted in some questions from a few listeners worried that a gift of this size from a company that we frequently report on might adversely influence our editorial decision-making. -
We’re happy to recognize our own Julie Bierach today as the recipient of a PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) award from the National Council On Crime And Delinquency (NCCD). The PASS Awards is the only national recognition of print and broadcast journalists, TV news and feature reporters, producers, writers, and those in film and literature who focus America’s attention on our criminal justice, juvenile justice, child welfare, and adult protection systems in a thoughtful and considerate manner.
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The Spring Campaign will mark the final on-air drive from our current studios in Lucas Hall on the University of Missouri – St. Louis campus. We’re moving this summer to a new facility that we will share with UMSL in the Grand Center arts & entertainment district in midtown St. Louis. -
For the thirteenth-consecutive year, St. Louis Public Radio is stepping in to help save lives at a time when blood donations are typically very slow and the need is great. At our January 2012 blood drive, which took place Wednesday afternoon at The Heights in Richmond Heights, more than 90 listeners and friends of St. Louis Public Radio donated 82 units of blood to support the Red Cross. -
A connected car can provide emergency services, security features, traffic and weather, navigation, information, Google and Bing search results, Internet radio and much more through mobile devices, embedded telematics and broadcast services. The best news for public radio listeners is that the Public Radio industry is among the leaders in bringing this technology to consumers. -
This will probably be the only time that Lupe Fiasco is mentioned in this blog, but we can't ignore the great shout out (about :45 into the video_ for NPR, Diane Rehm, and Kai Ryssdal in the tune SNDCLSH in Vegas. -
On Saturday, the President signed into law the consolidated fiscal year (FY) 2012 appropriations bill, which provides funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). For listeners and friends of St. Louis Public Radio, this is very good news because it means that Congress has provided important two-year advance funding for public radio and television totaling $445 million for Fiscal Year 2014. -
The New Year will bring some new programs to our weekly lineup at St. Louis Public Radio with two shows joining our schedule beginning the weekend of January 7, 2012. There is some familiarity to each of these shows but this will mark the first time they will be heard weekly on the station. -
Proceeds from all membership campaigns at St. Louis Public Radio allow us to purchase syndicated public radio programs, as well as fund local news production and general station operations. -
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