KEOM 88.5 FM Oldies Station Interview with Station Manager Shondra Tharp & Music Manager Tyler Sloan

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[00:00:48] [SPEAKER_02]: We're doing another local college radio dissect and promoting KEM 88.5, 4 tech aids and run in.

[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome, we got Sondra and Tyler here to pick their brains on what makes the college station what it is.

[00:01:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for having us.

[00:01:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Anytime we get it.

[00:01:11] [SPEAKER_02]: So you've been the proud, you know, a mosquito school.

[00:01:15] [SPEAKER_02]: It was founded by Ralph Potene, the former superintendent back in 1984.

[00:01:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Why do you suppose though that so many just flock to the station?

[00:01:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Like I knew the station back before I even listened to it.

[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_02]: I just would see so many people just kind of mentioned it.

[00:01:33] [SPEAKER_02]: They're like, hey yeah KEM, it's the place to be.

[00:01:35] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like really okay.

[00:01:37] [SPEAKER_00]: What makes us unique is that we well, for a long time we had just in all 70s format.

[00:01:44] [SPEAKER_00]: So we a lot of people that weren't getting that kind of music elsewhere back in the 90s

[00:01:52] [SPEAKER_00]: liked our station because we were playing those 70s music.

[00:01:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Now over the years we've also now added 80s and 90s music, but you know, still classic.

[00:02:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Even though we don't want to think of it as being classic when it's in the 90s.

[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, there's a lot of great songs that I don't think I've heard since I went to a serious mall back in the 90s.

[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Those who are trying to start up their radio station, what are being, you know, internet or

[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_02]: at a local venue of what licensing fees and programming tips would you guys like to give?

[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_00]: You want to talk about licensing fees?

[00:02:28] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, licensing fees is not necessarily my subject of expertise, but you know, I think it's good to

[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_06]: try to do what you can to have everything cost efficient, but also give your listeners a good

[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_06]: library of music to choose from where it's not a restrictive.

[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_06]: And being an educational station for us, the licensing fees are a lot less than they are

[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_06]: a commercial radio station. So that definitely helps especially in the environment that we have here.

[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_06]: We have a high school broadcasting class. We're able to help the high schoolers and teach

[00:03:02] [SPEAKER_06]: the kids about how to work in radio, how to basically use all the equipment that's here.

[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_06]: And to be able to have the real radio station, that we do have such a large signal.

[00:03:15] [SPEAKER_06]: And for that to project out there to not just be like a small closet, broom closet school

[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_06]: station, but an actual legit radio station, it really helps them a lot. And so having that music

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_06]: library and to be able to have the license music that we do, definitely helps with not only that,

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_06]: but then attracting other listeners who don't know even much about the school program necessarily,

[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_06]: but they want to keep in track of community events and they just love listening to some of

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_06]: those classic hits that they don't find as many other areas. Absolutely. There's a lot of

[00:03:47] [SPEAKER_02]: mixture of obscure news as well as just anything from like I remember when that was on an

[00:03:52] [SPEAKER_02]: episode of an show or the previous stations. You know, this is random wedding. Do you hear

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_06]: the same songs over here? You're all the time and almost any wedding I go to and so that always

[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_02]: puts a small amount of space. It is funny how certain stuff has kind of, like a better word kind

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_02]: of like taking it a new identity and you're like really okay, you're so.

[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, a lot of our students say they hear some of our stuff on the on TikTok.

[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Really? Oh, I know that from TikTok or a lot of the songs are being sampled by

[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_00]: artists nowadays. So even our teenage students recognize a lot of our songs.

[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Lovely. I must applaud you guys for your radio station news portion because, you know,

[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_02]: the whole on this day in history there was this mixed in with the sound clips as well as just

[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_02]: allowing your students to cover various topics and make it both diverse as well as just

[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_02]: reminding everybody hey, you got to know about this regardless of how divisive today's climate is.

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Right. Yeah, part of our curriculum is our students doing news and we do a local new segment.

[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_00]: So we just try to find things going on around our community and let our listeners know

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_00]: we're really a lot of our station is about just connecting with our Mesquite community.

[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Even though our signal reaches all across the Dallas, the Dallas Metroplex.

[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I'll hear a good mixture of like here's the local portion and

[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_02]: the transitions you guys make are just really good. Like you could easily mistake it for an actual

[00:05:38] [SPEAKER_02]: local new station and I don't know how did you guys get very experience with

[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_00]: getting that voice getting that narrative down? Well, you know, the station of Lekyu said has

[00:05:51] [SPEAKER_00]: been around for almost 40 years and you know, so we've developed our skills over time.

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, I've been around for 18 years at Tyler was actually one of our students that went

[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_00]: through the program and then he's been doing this as a profession not only at KEM but

[00:06:10] [SPEAKER_06]: other places I can let him tell you about that. Yeah, over for about 11 years now I've been doing

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_06]: it as a professional Zedia spin radio here in Dallas for six years before that station became

[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_06]: defunct and you know, that was a great experience to get out in the field and do an everything but

[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_06]: you know just as far as connecting with our community, starting as a smaller station and gradually

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_06]: growing over time, you know, the roots since 1984 have been in the city of Mesquite. And part

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_06]: of you know, having the school district own the station is we get to broadcast all the local sports

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_06]: games for an example that. Yes, every way we're going to be doing promotional stuff or that

[00:06:48] [SPEAKER_06]: city of Mesquite making sure that we get the word about, about all the events that are happening

[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_06]: in the city. I mean, I learned sometimes just going through some of the announcements that we make

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_06]: about things that are going on within the community that are really fun that are going on that

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_06]: that anybody can attend to a lot of them are free as well. It's just a good resource for anyone who

[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_06]: wants to be able to be a part of a community to get word on what is actually going down in the community.

[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_06]: And for that reason, I think is one of the reasons we've had so much success over the years is because

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_02]: we're a reliable source for that. What when you guys do like this weekend, you expect this and

[00:07:23] [SPEAKER_02]: that like it's just a good reminder of everybody that hey, keeping proactive in your

[00:07:32] [SPEAKER_02]: community, there's so many things to be in the know about. Have you really been impressed by the

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_02]: turnout and just the enlist amount of students who want to get involved?

[00:07:45] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, to be honest, a lot of times we, you know, for a while, we were really struggling

[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_00]: to get students into our program. And it's a pride thing because we have a really big school

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_00]: districts with five high schools and we get take students from all five. But I had more to do,

[00:08:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I think, with getting transportation to our studios. And so since the district has started

[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_00]: providing transportation, we've had a better turnout in recent years than in recent years.

[00:08:16] [SPEAKER_00]: And another thing that's been a little strange over the last few years is that our students don't

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_00]: actually listen to the radio very much anymore. So when they think about, yeah, when they think about

[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_00]: you know, working at a station, it's not really anything that they've considered before.

[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, the students, you know, nowadays they've got their Spotify and their playlist on

[00:08:39] [SPEAKER_00]: their phones or whatever. And that's, you know, kind of where they listen, their YouTube playlist

[00:08:44] [SPEAKER_00]: or whatever. So they're not used to listening to radio too much anymore. So it's been a struggle,

[00:08:52] [SPEAKER_00]: but also something that a lot of the students have enjoyed learning about.

[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_00]: So now podcasting is something that they have been really interested in

[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_00]: and doing. And we try to incorporate that into our program as well.

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Lovely. Are there any other stations? Do you guys have thought of doing sponsorships or collaborations

[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_00]: with as well? Well, we, of course, they all have their own station. We have many to choose from in the

[00:09:20] [SPEAKER_00]: area. And we've done some collaborations with, for example, the Odyssey stations. They are

[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_00]: the new station that's an Odyssey station around here is KRLD, which is a news station,

[00:09:33] [SPEAKER_00]: news talk, and they just love KOM. The people that work their love KOM. So they've let us

[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_00]: take our students there, see their studios, and you know, be good mentors to them.

[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_00]: So we've done that. We do have sponsors, but it's not through radio stations. It's local businesses

[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_00]: and things that want to help support our station. So Tyler, you, I think last I checked,

[00:09:59] [SPEAKER_02]: you went to UNT. That's correct. I agree. Right. Class of 2012, how would you describe that

[00:10:08] [SPEAKER_02]: versus here? Is it a similar kind of broadcasting venue there? You know, it's rather similar.

[00:10:14] [SPEAKER_06]: I will say from my personal experience, at the time I went to college, KELM might have been

[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_06]: just slightly nicer of a setup. But KN to you up there and then they've done a really good job

[00:10:28] [SPEAKER_06]: lately of up being bare facilities as well. I mean, it was pretty seamless transition to be honest

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_06]: from high school to college. I was able to get involved a lot earlier than most everybody else

[00:10:40] [SPEAKER_06]: because I had all the radio experience from high school, had basically a station with even more

[00:10:46] [SPEAKER_06]: wattage than my college station had. And so going to North Texas, it was really easy to get involved

[00:10:53] [SPEAKER_06]: early on and just keep accelerating in my growth in that way. And you know, funny enough,

[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_06]: one of the reasons I chose UNT is because it actually is, it's probably the best college radio

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_06]: program that we have in the state of Texas. I also toured at another fine university in TCU,

[00:11:09] [SPEAKER_06]: but at least at that time in 2007, 2008 when I was exploring colleges, TCUs had a very small

[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_06]: radio program at that time. So for me, UNT was the easy choice because it had a bigger studio,

[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_06]: just more room to get involved. And I noticed you has produced a lot of good talent lately,

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_06]: because that a lot of coworkers that he has been in radio that actually came from TCU. So I think

[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_06]: they've done a lot of growth recently with their radio program and the last decade or so. But

[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, KEOM, it is you wouldn't think a high school radio station when you think of high

[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_06]: schoolers being in radio would be comparable to college and even other small market radio stations.

[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_06]: But facility that we have, it really is as good of prep for anyone that wants to get into radio

[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_02]: that that you can possibly have. Absolutely. You're kind of proving the cliche

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_02]: invalid now, my leading by example. So I'm going to start with a given how a UBTot journalism,

[00:12:14] [SPEAKER_02]: what are some good, what would university did you go to and what are some

[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_02]: other places outside of K, mosquito school that you would recommend for those trying to get into that

[00:12:25] [SPEAKER_00]: job? Well, I went to Texas A&M Commerce actually and that was actually

[00:12:32] [SPEAKER_00]: not to radio as my field of study or or even journalism. I was actually a elementary school

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_00]: teacher is what I went to got my education doing. However, I was able to start teaching English

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_00]: in middle school and high school and that's kind of where I got my experience and I got the job

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_00]: at the radio station teaching really before I knew anything about radio. So I kind of have a unique

[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_00]: situation where I learned just before I started teaching the kids. But having my English background,

[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_00]: my English teacher background, I did know enough about journalism to know how to

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_00]: to do most of the things that were on that side of things and working the equipment and learning

[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_00]: to use my voice better, things like that have come along over the years. As far as you know,

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_00]: finding a school, I mean Texas A&M Commerce has a good program with radio TV and film that

[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_00]: I know of. I really don't know of others. Some of our students have gone to

[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Steven at F Austin they liked that program there so. You two are in Tons another one that has

[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_06]: a lot of facilities and honestly there's a lot of even just kind of more trade school like setups

[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_06]: where it's just a broadcasting school that sometimes people go to to learn about radio and it

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_06]: really doesn't matter necessarily where you start and where you go to learn but it's is really

[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_06]: about just developing those individual skills and having good mentors around you that can

[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_06]: help you guide you along with developing your voice, developing the different skills you need

[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_06]: with editing and things like that. So there's some places that have better facilities than others

[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_06]: but really it's all about the work that you put into it and what you want to make of it.

[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely. They ambition and finding the motivation seems to also be hard.

[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but also reminding other people that hey you know there's only you can climb any mountain

[00:14:41] [SPEAKER_02]: you really want to if you keep pushing. So Tons a little bit valid. The one the only time

[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Rewine host David Mendole how did he get involved? He actually does his own show so that's

[00:14:56] [SPEAKER_00]: something he's actually lives near Houston and has his own studio there. So he produces it.

[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_00]: He does some neat collaborations with several school districts. He sends us the audio

[00:15:10] [SPEAKER_00]: but he also sends some of the video programs in some of the schools in our area.

[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_00]: He sends that audio to them and they create videos for him. So he's syndicated but that's cool.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but he he has a big fan of K EOM and he's actually come to visit a several times when he's been

[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_02]: in the Dallas area. Sweet. How can other people get involved with just kind of making programs that

[00:15:38] [SPEAKER_02]: various school districts carry? Would you say?

[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_00]: You know if they have an idea of something that they think would be interesting, you know,

[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I just think they they just kind of go about you know think of what they want to talk about and

[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_00]: and do some research find a good topic and you know get it recorded.

[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it's syndicated the same as podcast and it's a fear of self-starter and you have a great idea

[00:16:04] [SPEAKER_06]: and you can record and produce it. Then people are going to if you market that out,

[00:16:12] [SPEAKER_06]: you know if it's a good idea people are going to like it. So it's all about just what you can do

[00:16:16] [SPEAKER_06]: yourself to make that possible really. You know, if you want to make your podcast and

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_06]: grow it into something huge or if you want to make a syndicated program and have it be syndicated

[00:16:26] [SPEAKER_06]: to stations across the country. It's really just about you know that that hard work and making

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_06]: sure that you know how to market it all lovely. Yeah and the program is we do on KEL

[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_00]: and we don't do anything really long form. We just do like to one to two maybe three minute

[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_00]: a little shows that some we produce here but some you know like you said were syndicated.

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_00]: So we do little short form ones but you know there are other stations that you know

[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_00]: will take you know 30 minute or hour or even longer segments for people that are interested in

[00:16:58] [SPEAKER_02]: something longer. Lovely and your your promo video is really great because it gets straight to

[00:17:06] [SPEAKER_02]: the meat and potatoes. It pretty much tells everybody hey you'll get on job experience basically

[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_02]: as well as learn about the legalities of the FCC and the other do's and don'ts.

[00:17:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Now what do you think? Do you think that's just kind of lacking at other colleges where

[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_02]: some people just aren't good at kind of breaking it down and having it makes sense for those who

[00:17:28] [SPEAKER_06]: weren't tech savvy? I don't know if that's necessarily the case. I think you know obviously

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_06]: attention spans are smaller nowadays and things to do. You do have to make stuff that's

[00:17:40] [SPEAKER_06]: quick hitting and you know within a minute be able to get your point across and things like that.

[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_06]: So I think our promotional videos do a good job with that but I think others

[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_06]: has successful promo videos you know as well. I think it just you know really depends on how much

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_06]: you know interest there is in the particular area and I think other other places you know colleges

[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_06]: have to do a good job with that. I still see the enrollment and programs like this and

[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_02]: and universities still be at pretty good numbers. Oh, boy. And any other topics that you guys think

[00:18:17] [SPEAKER_02]: will be covered in the future that are going to be really heavily promoted or under school events?

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Well we do little community events. We have one coming up it's actually later this week

[00:18:33] [SPEAKER_00]: that our school district is putting on it's a what did I call an initiative I guess that

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_00]: ski ISD has that they call read play and talk for little little kids just encouraging parents

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_00]: to replay and talk with their kids but they have a festival that we are going to this weekend

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_00]: if the rain doesn't the rain doesn't intrude that we're going to. So we like to do community

[00:19:00] [SPEAKER_00]: events like that just get our face out there some of our like our morning

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_00]: morning crew that's on air is actually adult staff and they've got a big fan following so

[00:19:15] [SPEAKER_00]: people just left to see us out in the community and our students are going to come with us

[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_00]: so or some of them. And so and the listeners really like to be able to see them and put faces

[00:19:26] [SPEAKER_00]: with the voices that they hear on the radio a lot of people you know in radio you always have a

[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_00]: sure of what somebody might look like you know you try to picture what they're going to look like

[00:19:36] [SPEAKER_00]: and a lot of times they surprise you so yeah listeners when we go out to things like that they

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_00]: love to see put faces with the voices that they hear. Lovely and speaking of voices

[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_02]: how do you think everyone gets comfortable just coming up with a voice?

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_00]: For radio. You know I think you know everyone a unique voice is good for radio I mean a lot of

[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_00]: kids come in the ones that think they have an idea of what radio's going to sound like and they come in

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_00]: and they put on this big an answer voice and it sounds really not genuine because they they do

[00:20:19] [SPEAKER_00]: some great things with that and you know we just try to encourage our kids to have confidence

[00:20:23] [SPEAKER_00]: in their voice be clear when they're speaking you know and go with it but be themselves you know

[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_00]: it we you don't want to sound like a robot or like some big you know do you take

[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_00]: answer and a lot of times that's something that we try to teach our kids is just to have a voice

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_00]: that's them and we can improve their voice you know sometimes they slur their words or

[00:20:52] [SPEAKER_00]: don't speak loud enough so we work on those kind of things. Nice right nice. I think speaking

[00:21:00] [SPEAKER_06]: with a smile is also really important because you get a certain amount of energy boost and enthusiasm

[00:21:05] [SPEAKER_06]: boost when you speak when you speak with a smile and I think that's something that we try to

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_06]: get the kids to do sometimes even use a little hand movement because sometimes that gets your body

[00:21:14] [SPEAKER_06]: moving a little bit and you talk a little bit easier for that but you know I just echo everything

[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_06]: that Chandra said because that's using your own voice and your authentic voice is what's

[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_02]: going to sound the best on air. Totally making sure that it actually jails as opposed to

[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_02]: an illness and we're not really igniting a conversation together. Right. Shining it down before

[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_00]: it really gets a chance to breathe. Yeah and we have you know we have students that are talented

[00:21:44] [SPEAKER_00]: with that and you know immediately they get it and then other kids that that work on it through the

[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_00]: year but you know we try to give everyone a chance to develop that as they go through our program.

[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Wonderful. What would you say is the highest ranked major right now with the college or

[00:22:08] [SPEAKER_06]: the school? Sorry, college. No idea to be honest. That's something I have no privy knowledge to. I don't

[00:22:17] [SPEAKER_00]: think that's what I'm saying. I mean we're just a not a college a regular school district and

[00:22:23] [SPEAKER_00]: our school district has tons and tons of options for career and technology classes so I mean

[00:22:30] [SPEAKER_00]: there's so many options between RKELM program we have a video program

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_00]: that they get several certifications they have we even have like farm and training and paramedic

[00:22:41] [SPEAKER_00]: training um you know I'm trying to remember there's so many robotics. Robotic.

[00:22:48] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh Graham even there's there's a specialist high school that opened up recently called

[00:22:52] [SPEAKER_06]: Vanguard and Musquit ISD that basically if you have a specific career kind of that you want to go

[00:22:58] [SPEAKER_06]: into they have specific programs so you can focus on those rather than just necessarily go to

[00:23:04] [SPEAKER_06]: traditional high school and it's really effective like the fireman training that she was talking

[00:23:08] [SPEAKER_06]: about you know you don't get that very many you know how much school is anywhere so to have

[00:23:12] [SPEAKER_06]: something like that is cool but it does create a lot of options so you know we were one option

[00:23:17] [SPEAKER_06]: of many in this school district of a possible past people can take. No that's so true I see so many

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_02]: other colleges and looks sort of short some of them are kind of picky and choosey about how

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_02]: you go about it instead of kind of letting everybody kind of find their voice and figure out if they

[00:23:34] [SPEAKER_02]: can be any good at this profession so it is cool to know that you guys are actually trying to

[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_02]: lead everyone in and give them room to thank as well as food for thought. And just just

[00:23:52] [SPEAKER_02]: given how you guys were formerly 88.3 then you got more megahertz and you changed it up

[00:24:04] [SPEAKER_00]: remodel yourself in the future again. You know it's going to be kind of tough with being in the

[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Dallas sport worth market there is not a lot of room I mean we pretty much have every every bit of

[00:24:17] [SPEAKER_00]: power that we can have in our in our area and you know even the frequencies that are available to

[00:24:27] [SPEAKER_00]: to be used in this area are pretty much non-existent so I think we're probably going to be

[00:24:33] [SPEAKER_02]: a decade 88.5 with 61,000 once for a while. No that's fine I just curious and you guys are in a

[00:24:42] [SPEAKER_02]: pretty cool place of all together I really do legit hope that people keep finding discovering the

[00:24:53] [SPEAKER_02]: station and I hope even just restaurants can play it you know. We are I know we get played in

[00:25:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Dennis and Drs. offices they call us and you know say that they're listening to us there so

[00:25:07] [SPEAKER_02]: oh lovely yeah you guys have a wonderful kind of like 89.3 and some of the other local stations

[00:25:14] [SPEAKER_02]: you guys were very responsive your staff is on it just just always recommending people just

[00:25:20] [SPEAKER_02]: calling and just interact which I kind of feel is kind of I don't know kind of we're slated into

[00:25:28] [SPEAKER_02]: kind of a shock-jock kind of mentality nowadays and to have actually people just having healthy

[00:25:33] [SPEAKER_02]: conversations and it's not just like a closed off audience it's just I'm just kind of joyful

[00:25:42] [SPEAKER_02]: of that. Yeah I think it's just kind of missing yeah it seems like either way you do go about it

[00:25:52] [SPEAKER_02]: someone kind of misses out or it's a one-sided conversation or you're not fully in the loop because

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_02]: it's only for a certain timeframe and a certain audience so I must apply to you guys for that.

[00:26:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Any of the DJs and other radio staff you'd love to promote?

[00:26:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Well you know I mean we've got our morning we call them our morning crew it's really

[00:26:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Gil Palmer and Copeland writes the meteorologist that comes in and does the weather report so

[00:26:30] [SPEAKER_00]: they are our morning guys Tyler Tyler comes in and does an hour shift between 8 and 9 before

[00:26:35] [SPEAKER_00]: the students get here and then we have our students basically throughout the school day

[00:26:41] [SPEAKER_00]: and then Patrick Roth is a professional that comes in and does our evening drive so

[00:26:49] [SPEAKER_02]: sweet. Yeah and how would you describe kind of the transition period because

[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_02]: like we're everyone hands off and make sure that everything's ready to roll and go live.

[00:27:03] [SPEAKER_00]: You know we are we are in automation when we are not in their life sometimes there's just

[00:27:10] [SPEAKER_00]: music playing we've recorded some weather reports and some you know some talking

[00:27:17] [SPEAKER_00]: announcements and things like that that we put in the playlist and so

[00:27:22] [SPEAKER_00]: a lot of times I mean actually in just if you were listening in the last few hours we haven't

[00:27:27] [SPEAKER_00]: had anybody live in the studio we've just been in automation but a lot of people think we are

[00:27:33] [SPEAKER_00]: live because we've done some voice tracking but uh so I mean there's really a seamless transition

[00:27:39] [SPEAKER_00]: between switching over I mean just to make sure your your areas clean and that it's in where

[00:27:47] [SPEAKER_00]: it's just going to keep playing the songs in automation and then you're out of there and the next

[00:27:52] [SPEAKER_06]: person can come in when they're ready. And in the mornings always gives me the nice introduction

[00:27:57] [SPEAKER_06]: of coming up is your friendly voice in the morning time. I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I appreciate

[00:28:02] [SPEAKER_06]: him for for that sort of intro so we kind of we have one of the more pure transitions in the

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_06]: morning because it's it's professional and professional and then when the kids come in sometimes they

[00:28:12] [SPEAKER_06]: don't always go right to the studio to start their class so if I see them in the hallway I kind

[00:28:18] [SPEAKER_06]: of tease at the students are coming up but if I don't I know that they might be learning something

[00:28:22] [SPEAKER_06]: for a while I just don't do a transition then and then usually Patrick picks it right up around four

[00:28:28] [SPEAKER_06]: clock locally here is central time and he just kind of takes it from usually automation or sometimes

[00:28:34] [SPEAKER_02]: with the students and carries you through the afternoon drive as lovely because yet you want everybody

[00:28:43] [SPEAKER_02]: to be at peace in their zone when they're ready to roll so yeah so this has been very joyful guys

[00:28:52] [SPEAKER_02]: I feel like I'm I pressed enough on on the school and its operations and that there's still just

[00:29:02] [SPEAKER_02]: plenty of just lovely turnout and feedback on programming that's right around the corner so

[00:29:12] [SPEAKER_02]: if you guys want to do any other promotion but other than that I feel like we've just about

[00:29:18] [SPEAKER_00]: gone to the end of the tunnel here okay well if anybody wants to listen we are in the Dallas area on

[00:29:24] [SPEAKER_00]: 88.5 but we are also online at kem.fms you got an app and you can listen in through that way all over the world

[00:29:33] [SPEAKER_02]: yep it's a really joyful very diverse it feels good at the end of the day

[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_06]: well thank you and thank you so much we'll return after these messages

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