Thousands in the the Bay Area know Peter Finch’s voice as the longtime news director at KFOG-FM. Now they are getting to know the Radio and Television alum’s voice in a much different way, through his plays. Finch wrote “Aaron Trotter and the Incident at Bikini Beach,” now playing at the Exit Theatre in San Francisco.

A class in the Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts Department is on a mission in India this summer to bring more smiles to children’s faces. The Media and Community Service course, led by Professor Betsy Blosser, has traveled to India to produce a video for the Smile Foundation, which promotes education as the primary means of affecting social change.

At this year’s Northern California Broadcasters Association job fair, Wanetta Doty realized that her career had come full circle. The graduate of the Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts Department was no longer the aspiring student seeking an entry-level job. She now sat behind the table at the KGO-AM 810 booth, talking to today’s students.

Alumna Danielle Knox embodies Lifetime Television’s “The Balancing Act.” She is a guest host on the talk show that offers solutions for women juggling career and home. Knox also recently was named weekend news anchor for CBS affiliate WGCL-TV in Atlanta, runs her own skin-care products company, and is a loving wife and mother of three boys.

The Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts Department recently began play-by-play telecasts of SF State Gator athletics for the first time in more than a decade.

Earlier this fall, alum Justin Allen helped baseball fans in the Tampa Bay/St. Petersburg area follow the World Series run of their hometown Rays.

James Van Praagh studied media at SF State but has always been a medium unto himself. The best-selling author began to discover his psychic abilities at age 8, serving as the inspiration for the main character in the movie “The Sixth Sense.”

An alumna's documentary about a blind man whose ingenious use of technology has enabled him to sail, shop and ride a bicycle will be featured on NBC's Today" show on Oct. 6.

Posted Wed, 07/30/2008 - 8:09am

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