Ray Ekness
Ray Ekness is a former UM School of Journalism professor and former department chair of the Department of Radio-Television.
Ekness worked a few radio jobs in his native North Dakota and worked on-air at KUFM as a UM student in 1982. He then launched a career as a commercial producer and newscast director at television stations in Montana and Idaho.
Starting in 1989, he was a producer and director at the Broadcast Media Center for 11 years – working as an adjunct at the journalism school during that time – and he joined the J-school full time in 2000. He rose up through the ranks, chairing the radio-TV department for six years, and he currently serves as school’s director of student success.
Ekness has helped produce many MontanaPBS programs, including the popular “Backroads of Montana.” Other programs he produced include “Remembering the Columbia Gardens,” “To Helena and Back: the First Special Service Force,” “Building Bridges: Back to Ireland” and “War of the Worlds.”
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