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Bruce Wirth, KSER General Manager. 

Mr. Wirth has spent the last 12 years in community-centered media, both in radio and print. He has worked variously as music director, operations manager, production manager, and news director in community public radio, as well as serving on the Board of Real Change News in Seattle for 9 years. Mr. Wirth has 20 years of experience in audio production, and has worked as a professional musician since age 18. A graduate of the University of Puget Sound, Bruce currently lives in Ballard with his partner and two daughters.  Bruce joined KSER in August 2006 from community radio station KBCS, in Bellevue. He maintains a blog of our website here.

Ed Bremer, KSER Public Affairs Director.

Mr. Bremer has thirty years experience as a professional radio producer; twenty-seven of those years have been in public radio. Mr. Bremer has earned numerous awards for his work including 2 Golden Mike awards, six San Diego Press Club Awards and several awards from United Press International. He has produced for UPI, the BBC and National Public Radio. Mr. Bremer was News and Public Affairs Director at Spokane Public Radio before becoming News Director for KSER in 1991. In 1994 Ed was named Station Manager of KSER and returned to News and Public Affairs at KSER in 2006. You can learn more about our news programming here.

Becky Passarella, KSER Development Director.

Ms. Passarella has a degree in computer science from the University of Washington and first came to KSER as a volunteer music host. Becky worked for many years in engineering before taking time off to be a stay-at-home mother for her two children in Mukilteo. After volunteering as a music host for 5 years at KSER, Becky earned a Certificate in Fundraising Management at the University of Washington and was hired in 2004 as the station’s first Development Director. You can learn more about how you can support KSER here.