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STEVE MARIS IS KPLU’S NEW UNDERWRITING SALES MANAGER
 (Seattle-Tacoma, WA) KPLU and Public Radio Partners are pleased to announce the hiring of Steve Maris as Underwriting Sales Manager. He replaces Beverly James, who joined KPLU’s underwriting department in 2003 and was promoted to Sales Manager in 2006. Ms. James is retiring from KPLU to go sailing with her husband. Maris has already begun work at the station’s Seattle offices and studios.
For the past 19 years, Maris was responsible for overseeing various aspects of membership development and visitor services for Seattle’s Convention and Visitors Bureau (SCVB). He was able to drive membership and advertising revenue growth even during periods of reduced membership staffing and down business cycles. Maris was also instrumental in creating new advertising and sponsorship programs for SCVB that enabled member companies to better reach and attract visitors to the Seattle area. In addition, he was project manager for two new visitor centers which now serve thousands of Seattle visitors each month.
Prior to the Convention and Visitors Bureau, Maris served first as an account executive and later as Vice President of Marketing and Sales for the Puget Sound Business Journal, from 1983 to 1990. While there, he created and managed a special publication division which added significantly to the Business Journal's growth and profitability.
Maris has an MBA from the University of Washington and is actively involved in the Seattle community. “As a long-time KPLU listener and member, I am thrilled to have the opportunity to contribute to the success of public radio in Western Washington,” he said.
Public Radio Partners is a privately-owned business providing outsourced underwriting sales departments to public media clients since 1999. PRP currently represents KPLU in Seattle as well as Rocky Mountain PBS in Denver, Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, KJZZ and KBAQ in Phoenix, WPLN in Nashville, KUT in Austin, Capital Public Radio in Sacramento, WGUC and WVXU in Cincinnati, and Georgia Public Broadcasting in Atlanta. PRP is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona and has 55 fulltime employees.
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Pacific Public Media broadens the international content of KPLU to include all forms of listener-supported media including KPLU FM's "NPR News and All That Jazz" and its all-jazz webstream, Jazz24.org. Ranked as one of the most popular public radio stations in the nation, KPLU provides local and National Public Radio news, and jazz and blues on 88.5 in Seattle/Tacoma, 89.3 in Port Angeles/Victoria, and 90.1 in Olympia. At www.kplu.org, the station provides a live stream of NPR News and All That Jazz, which is also available on HD Radio. Jazz24 is one of the most listened-to webstreams in the world and is available at www.Jazz24.org and on KPLU's HD2 channel. Pacific Public Media is a community service of Pacific Lutheran University. | 
