I guess I’m just a radio geek….it sure has been a long time waiting to see what I would become when I grow up…I guess this is it, but there sure are a lot worse things.  I believe that radio (done well and done with passion) can be the most personal of all media.  Many of the times that I have felt the most connected to a person or to an important event have been either when I have been behind the microphone or I have been on the listening end of something compelling coming from my radio.
 
Growing up in the Washington D.C. area I was exposed to some excellent rock radio including the heyday of WHFS. I graduated from Virginia Tech and would have graduated a full year sooner had I not spent every spare moment (and many moments where I should have been in class) at the student-run station, WUVT.  After a few years at radio stations in Virginia I was fortunate enough to play a big part in starting “The Moose” in Bozeman.  Now I consider myself lucky to be back at the Trail…a station I helped start back in 2005…and to be working for a locally-owned media company for the first time in many years.
 
Over those years I did play-by-play for nearly 1,000 sporting events, was on the air for 9-11 and when Jerry Garcia and Kurt Cobain died, met a few rock stars, raised a few dollars for charity, won a couple awards and got fired a couple times.  It’s nice to wake up each day and love what you do, and love the people you work with….that’s certainly the case here at the Trail and the Montana Radio Company.