Career
He served as business editor and host of public radio"s Marketplace and a correspondent for Cable News Network from 1989–1993, being based in Los Los Angeles He served as a Vice President of A. G. Edwards (now Wells Fargo Advisors) from 1993–2002, based in Saint Louis, Missouri. Following his time at Cable News Network and public radio, Sanders was President of the Media Communications Association-International and Chairman of the University City, Missouri Commission for Access and Local Original Programming (CALOP), which allocated funds derived from cable television subscribers to fund local filmmakers to create quality programs about local culture, arts and history.
While CALOP Chair (and, later, Executive Director), he hosted Liquid Light, a prime time cable television show on the Higher Education Consortium cable channel (Higher Education Commission-television) in the Saint Louis region (2003–2008), which featured local filmmakers and documentarians.
