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As executive director, television operations and engineering, Steve Welch oversees all television technical operations, including broadcast and production facilities, equipment and personnel, training, scheduling, and engineering.
Steve Welch joined KQED in April of 2000 and has successfully led the operations and engineering departments through KQED?s revolutionary transition to digital technology. He brings more than 30 years of television management experience to the senior team. Prior to KQED, he spent most of his professional career at KCTS TV in Seattle, where he began as a television producer/director and served nearly a decade as director of broadcast and production operations. He completed his tenure as director of HDTV production and facility marketing, a role in which he helped establish KCTS as the early leader in U.S. production of HDTV content.
Welch received the PBS Engineering Individual Achievement Award in 1995, among other honors. During the digital transition in Seattle, he traveled to Japan three times to study advanced television at NHK (Japan National Broadcasting). After leaving KCTS, Welch worked as an HD production and marketing consultant for KCTS, Convergence Services, Corbis Corp., WETA TV, American Production Services, and the Arnold Creative Group. He earned his B.A. at the University of Washington. | 