Staff

Steve Ross, Operations Manager

Steve is a 1982 graduate of Fairmont State College in Fairmont, WV. After graduating from college, Steve was hired by WKEF-TV Ch. 22 in Dayton as a Production Assistant. In 1984, Steve was promoted to Director and began directing news, commercials, promos, and various public informational programming for WKEF.

In 1989, Steve left WKEF to take over the reins of Operations Manager of DATV (then Access 30 Dayton.) In his 19 years with DATV, Steve has seen many changes in Dayton’s public access facility. With a new building in 1992 and nearly 10,000 square feet, DATV has become more vital to the community and to the mission of public access television in Dayton.

Steve became Executive Director in August of 2008. In 2018 Steve returned to his previous position of Operations Manager.

Melissa Constantine, Program Director

Melissa was hired at DATV, June 12th, 1984 as the receptionist. Since then she has advanced to the position of Program Director beginning in 1994.

Melissa was very active in the Alliance for Community Media, she served from 1997-2004 as the Grassroots Chair of the Central States Region. As chair, she was responsible for raising money to help send people to Regional and National Conferences.

From 2001-2004 Melissa became the Vice Chair of the Central States Region of the Alliance for Community Media and the Ohio/Kentucky Chapter of the region.

She was elected to the National Board of the Alliance for Community Media for a 2 year term from 2002-2004.

Melissa has produced various programs at DATV, including The Dayton Ambassadors In Concert, Here at Home and Hot Country Video Hits. You can also see her on DATV as host of the 1999 Children's Parade, the 1999 Southeast Dayton Days Parade and the 2000 & 2001 Children's Parade.

In 2001, Melissa received a Hometown USA Video Award for her program A Road of Memories: The Life And Times of Roxie Cole, which she produced with Rick Latimer of DATV.

Dale Grow, Volunteer Coordinator

Dale started as a volunteer producer for Dayton Access Television in 1995. He was hired on as a full time Production Assistant a couple of years later. Dale has worked in a freelance capacity for ESPN, The Nashville Network and Fox Sports Ohio.

Eric Widing, Production Assistant

Eric began working at MVCC in 2006 and was a summer staff member for three years afterward. Since then Eric has worked as an independent filmmaker with work consisting of music videos, commercials, freelance editing and short films along with more projects on the horizon. Eric is also a writer for the heavy metal website Metalmasterkingdom.com

Chuck Summerlin, Production Assistant
Bobby Morgan, Production Assistant
Nick Pierron, Production Assistant
Brie Hope, Production Assistant