Here’s the info, from WCQS:
We’d like you to join us in welcoming Jody Evans as our new Executive Director. There will be a reception for Jody in Cullowhee on July 12th and there will be an Open House at the WCQS studios in Asheville on the 13th.
Date: July 12, 2010
Time: 5 – 7 pm
What: A reception to welcome Jody Evans and learn what’s going on at WCQS.
Where: Mountain Heritage Museum at Western Carolina University
Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Time: 5 – 7 pm
What: Open House to welcome Jody Evans and hear what’s going on at WCQS.
Where: WCQS Studios
Light refreshments will be served at both events.
Please RSVP to mfuller@wcqs.org or 210-4800 ext. 812
Verve magazine recently published the first local interview with Evans. Here’s a snippet:
Yes, people have embraced technology and new media. But will they abandon the old? Evans doesn’t think so.
“People thought the death of radio was television, but it wasn’t,” says the 41-year-old native New Yorker. Still, she knows the web is changing radio, and she seemed ready to shake things up a bit when she took the reigns of Asheville’s public radio station, WCQS, in mid-June.
Evans started her career as a TV news reporter, spent nearly a decade as programming director at Vermont Public Radio in Burlington and made a brief stop at Austin’s KUT-FM before taking the executive director spot at WCQS. She replaces Ed Subkis, who was station manager for 18 years.