Steve Ridge

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289 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 31 Dec

Steve Ridge’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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It's good to be with you, Megan.

Thanks for having me.

Well, she was from Minnesota, but she had an incredible amount of natural talent.

that manifested itself in a relatively short period of time.

She began as an intern in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she was for about a year.

And then she returned to Alexandria, Minnesota to work at a local TV station there.

And then eventually my company helped relocate her to Mason City, K-I-M-T,

where we were coaching her on air ability and trying to eliminate some of that Minnesotan accent, if you will, to make her appeal broader.

Oh, okay.

At that time, I was actually running Frank Maggot Associates, which was the largest media research and consulting firm in the United States.

And I was with that company for 37 years.

I knew of the case of Jody the whole time, but until I semi-retired, I was not in a position really to actively investigate this full time.

Absolutely.

And so her resume tape was very good for the limited amount of experience that she had.

And I later came across that same resume tape when I was moving some materials from

I still have it on the shelf over here, which I keep as a reminder.

It's got her little business card on it, you know, with her name.

And as you know, early in television, I mean, you do your own editing.

I mean, you edit your own highlights.

And so sure enough, I mean, she had edited that tape and I still had it when I began digging into the case.

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