Steve began his 50-year career in public radio at WBUR, the Boston University radio station,  where he hosted a daily classical music program, was the station’s first fundraising director and created a  Saturday morning live call-in program about audio components called Shoptalk which became the model for Cartalk.    After WBUR, Steve helped start Vermont Public Radio and WBGO, New York’s Jazz station. In 1990 he became the first manager of the newly formed statewide Nebraska Public Radio Network.   In 2000, Steve became the manager of WFMT in Chicago. Among many other programs, he created the daily program, Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin; Introductions, a weekly program highlighting pre-college musicians; produced and anchored a live broadcast from Durban, South Africa of the world premiere of Princess Magogo, the first South African indigenous opera and the first opera with a libretto in Zulu; and produced a live broadcast from Salzburg on the occasion of Mozart’s 250th birthday.  In 2015, Steve produced the first-ever cross cultural classical music radio exchange between China and the West.   In 2016, Steve formed a production company that is producing classical music audio and video programs. His company recently completed the 13-hour documentary, No Regrets: The Music and Spirit of Billie Holiday.