Mark Vogelzang, NPR Biography
President and General Manager, Vermont Public Radio
Mark Vogelzang
Mark Vogelzang has been president and general manager of Vermont Public Radio since 1993. A five-station network based in Burlington, Vermont Public Radio offers NPR news, classical, jazz, and other programming to nearly 150,000 listeners each week. On August 13, 2002, VPR celebrated its 25th anniversary of broadcasting. Vogelzang has served on the NPR board of directors since 2001.
As chief executive for the only NPR member station serving the citizens of Vermont and surrounding regions, Vogelzang is responsible for an operation with over 21,000 contributing members and 300 business underwriters. VPR also provides a growing regional news service, including daily feature and spots news, commentary series, and call-in programs from its renovated studios in historic Fort Ethan Allen, completed after a $2 million capital campaign in 1995.
In July of 2002, Vogelzang was named public radio's "General Manager of the Year" at the Public Radio Development and Marketing Conference in Philadelphia.
While with Vermont Public Radio, Vogelzang also served from 1997 - 1999 as the president of Eastern Public Radio.
Prior to joining VPR, he was radio manager at the public television and radio station in Philadelphia, WHYY-FM, where he worked with Terry Gross and Fresh Air in launching that program nationally. Before that, he worked with WKYU-FM in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Vogelzang makes his home in Jericho, Vermont. He is a graduate of Dordt College in Iowa, where he majored in English, met his wife Rhonda, and had his first experience in broadcasting at radio station KDCR in Sioux Center, Iowa. He and his wife are the parents of five children.
