Len O'Kelly
Title: Visiting Professor
Field of Study: Broadcasting
Office: 165 LSH
Phone: 616-331-8174
Email: okellyle@gvsu.edu
About
Len O'Kelly joins the School of Communications as Visiting Professor of Broadcasting after spending 25 years in radio. He has served as a news director, twice as a production director in Chicago and has programmed a number of radio stations in locations as close as Grand Rapids, MI and as far away as Gisborne, New Zealand. He has also served as an on-camera meteorologist for WYIN-TV in northwest Indiana, and has performed countless commercial and industrial voiceovers.
O'Kelly also serves as the faculty advisor for Grand Valley’s student-run radio station WCKS “The Whale” and for Grand Valley’s student-run television station GVTV.
Teaches
Introduction to Radio, Survey of Electronic Media, Beginning Television Studio Production, Issues in Communication.
Degrees
B.E.S., Lewis University
M.S., Grand Valley State University
