Bill Stanley retires after forty years
Bill Stanley (Communications ’69) retired from KSPS Public Television in Spokane August 31, 2009 after four decades of serving the PBS audience in the U.S. and Canada.
Stanley joined KSPS in 1969 as a producer-director for instructional programming. Through the seventies he wore many hats including that of Sports Director. He produced and did play-by-play announcing for hundreds of high school and college football, basketball, wrestling and baseball games. He did the play-by-play for Cougar basketball on television from 1975 – 1978. Stanley traveled with George Raveling’s Cougs to Europe in 1977. Upon returning, he produced a half hour documentary on their unique trip.
Stanley served as Program Director and Station Manager the last eighteen years before retiring.
“My education at WSU allowed me to immediately get a job that afforded me the opportunity to do what I wanted to do.” Working at KSPS has been his one and only job since leaving WSU forty years ago.
“Serving the public television audience has been a most rewarding experience. In public TV, we strive to make a difference in people’s lives. I hope I have helped make that happen.”
Stanley lives with his wife Jo Ann and plans to play more golf, travel, visit the grandkids and root on the Cougs in his retirement.
Stanley, Steve Puidokas and George Raveling 1977