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KUHF Launches Business Radio Program: Bauer Business Focus
KUHF’s business reporter Ed Mayberry will host Bauer Business Focus, a new weekly radio feature that will air during Morning Edition each Friday at 8:35AM on 88.7FM and HD Digital Channel 1, and on the Internet radio station KUHF News, streamed online at www.kuhf.org.
KUHF Houston Public Radio in partnership with The University of Houston’s C. T. Bauer College of Business, will launch a new weekly radio feature hosted by KUHF Business News reporter, Ed Mayberry called Bauer Business Focus on Friday, January 29th. The program will air during Morning Edition each Friday at 8:35AM on 88.7FM and HD Digital Channel 1, and on the Internet radio station KUHF News, streamed online at www.kuhf.org.
Bauer Business Focus will feature interviews with expert guests about compelling events that are shaping important local issues, business news and trends. The first segment will feature an interview with the Dean of Bauer College of Business, Dr. Arthur Warga.
Topics in the program will range from discussions of major “big picture” issues facing Houston, current efforts in job growth and economic diversification, tips on entrepreneurship and innovative new industries.
“There’s a lot of change taking placing in business today, and we’re pleased to be able to provide a forum on public radio to discuss those changes and what’s happening in the local business community,” KUHF Station Manager Debra Fraser explains. “I think Bauer Business Focus will appeal even to people who wouldn’t normally think of listening to a business program, because it’s really about issues that impact all of us.”
“We are excited about this partnership with KUHF and what it means to a listening audience hungry for business news,” said Dean Warga. “Bauer serves as a rich resource of business education and business thought leadership. From topical and relevant news to insights and expertise that are local and global in perspective, KUHF and Bauer are building a program that will engage and inform listeners about the business world around them. We can’t wait to explore trends and issues weighing on the minds of the business community.”
KUHF Houston Public Radio is a fully professional radio service affiliated with National Public Radio (NPR) and certified by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. KUHF’s program services are broadcast on 88.7 FM, HD Digital, and streaming world-wide on Internet radio stations KUHF News, KUHF Classical and KUHF Global. KUHF is supported financially by its listener-members, and by gifts from the greater Houston community, through the Association for Community Broadcasting.
KUHF is licensed to the Board of Regents of the University of Houston and is operated in the public interest as a community outreach of the University. More information at www.kuhf.org.
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About the Bauer College of Business
The C.T. Bauer College of Business has been in operation for more than 60 years at the University of Houston main campus. Through its five academic departments, the college offers a full-range of undergraduate, masters and doctoral degrees in business. The Bauer College is fully accredited by the AACSB International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. In August 2000, Houston business leader and philanthropist Charles T. (Ted) Bauer endowed the College of Business with a $40 million gift. In recognition of his generosity, the college was renamed the C.T. Bauer College of Business.