Brian Howard started his broadcast career at a low-power AM station at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho. He continued to work in radio and television as a student at Southern Utah University where he earned his bachelor’s degree. He took his first full-time job in television as a reporter/anchor at KPVI-TV in Pocatello, Idaho. After several years there he left to work on a master’s degree at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
At BYU he worked as an assignment editor for the university’s student-run integrated television, radio, newspaper, and internet newsroom. He also worked as a producer and video editor at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah, and as a producer and director at KBYU Television.
He accepted a teaching position at Ricks College in 1999, and enjoyed the process of helping create a new four-year broadcast program as Ricks became Brigham Young University-Idaho.
Howard earned his Ph.D. in Education from the University of Idaho in 2010. He is currently the