WAVELENGTHS HOST Kevin Petrich 1 2 Later, while studying for his master’s degree, he worked part-time at Miami’s commercial classical station, WTMI-FM. It also was during this period that Dr. Petrich interned for the BBC World Service, spending two weeks writing and producing programs at Bush House in London. Wavelengths is, in some sense, a natural next step in its general manager’s academic and broadcasting careers. Conventional broadcasting is an incredibly rewarding profession, with enormous potential for entertainment and enlightenment. But having spent so many years in a field increasingly given to commercial—more than to cultural and social—concerns, Dr. Petrich also understands mass communication’s constraints. This awareness inspired his dissertation, Public Broadcasting’s Problematic Publicness: An Analysis of the Effectiveness and Prospects of Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting, which explored American public broadcasting’s problems and the work of a citizen’s movement focused on reforming the system.