Bill Davis

Bill Davis is the founding president of Southern California Public Radio (SCPR), a California-controlled subsidiary of the American Public Media Group.

Prior to joining SCPR in 2001, Davis was senior vice president for programming at NPR in Washington, D.C. He directed NPR's programming divisions: news, cultural programming, new media, and satellite.

For ten years, Davis served as general manager of WUNC-FM in Chapel Hill, NC. His direction of all aspects of this NPR-affiliated station, licensed to the University of North Carolina, helped to make it one of the nation's most-listened-to NPR stations.

Prior to joining WUNC, Davis managed WBFO-FM in Buffalo, NY, and KALX-FM in Berkeley, CA.

Davis earned an A.B. degree from Occidental College in Los Angeles, an M.J. degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, and an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at UNC-Chapel Hill. While in journalism school, he produced and edited reports for the statewide news operation at California Public Radio.