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SAMUEL J. SAULS, PH.D. |
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Dr. Sauls joined the Department of Radio, Television and Film faculty in 1984 as a Lecturer and Station Manager of the University radio station, KNTU-FM, of which he served until 1994 upon completion of his Ph.D., and then Assistant Professor until August 2000.
Dr. Sauls has a combined total of 15 years experience in commercial and noncommercial radio. He worked for four years in Saudi Arabia as the Audio Production/ Language Laboratory Manager at the National Center for Financial and Economic Information in Riyadh, and was Director of Field Operations for City Colleges of Chicago in Europe while living in Germany for two years. He serves as a Past President and Membership Committee Chair of the Texas Association of Broadcast Educators, and Past Chair and Membership Coordinator of the Student Media Advisors of the Broadcast Education Association.
He served as the 2005 BEA convention program chair for the annual Broadcast Education Association convention in April 2005 and was elected to the BEA Board of Directors in June 2006. Dr. Sauls’ research interests include noncommercial broadcasting, programming effects, survey research, media pedagogy, and audio production. Iowa State University Press published Dr. Sauls’ first book, The Culture of American College Radio, in March 2000. He is currently preparing a co-authored book proposal entitled Sump’n Else: Television Bandstand Days.
Dr. Sauls teaches courses in audio production, broadcast programming, and film sound. On the graduate level, he teaches the Introduction to Graduate Studies class and Audio for Documentary Production.
Dr. Sauls holds Associate, Bachelor of Arts, and Master of Arts degrees in Radio, Television and Film. His masters thesis was entitled "Prelude to Red Lion: History and Analysis of the Proposed Red Lion et al., v. FCC and Democratic National Committee Challenge of the Fairness Doctrine" MAI 19(01), 73.
His doctorate degree is in Higher Education Administration with a Business Minor. His doctoral dissertation was entitled "An Analysis of Selected Factors Which Influence the Funding of College and University Noncommercial Radio Stations as Perceived by Station Directors" DAI 54(12), 4372.
