The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia

Steve Butler
Official KYW Press Photo

Steve Butler is the director of programming at KYW Newsradio, where he is proud to oversee the on-air and newsroom staff of 55 people who have helped keep KYW the #1 radio station in Philadelphia.

He is also responsible for the station's marketing and promotional efforts.

The Glenside, Pa. native calls himself a "KYW brat" whose connections date back to 1974, when he was a participant in the station's annual "Newstudies" program for high school seniors, attending Saturday morning classes about broadcast news conducted by KYW news staffers. During college, he was a desk assistant in the KYW newsroom.

After graduating from Temple University and a year-long stop at WTTM in Trenton as legislative reporter, Butler joined the KYW Newsradio staff in 1979 as a news writer and reporter. He covered the transportation and City Hall beats until 1985, when he left to be a field producer at WCAU-TV.

Returning to KYW Newsradio as news director and executive editor in 1986, Butler left again in 1989 to oversee editorial operations at Inside Radio, a daily trade publication for the US radio industry.

Since 1997, Butler has been back at KYW Newsradio to supervise all on-air production and content of the station -- hopefully, he says, his final return to the station which has been such a large part of his working life.

Butler lives in Haddonfield, NJ, with wife Mimi and daughter Samantha -- and a little red sports car that lets him play grease monkey on the weekends.

The e-mail address of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia is pioneers@broadcastpioneers.com