Winter Update

Jeremy Levy back with you to give you updates about what is going on in Colorado radio and TV.February has a couple of big events every year. KALC (ALICE 105.9) radio has their radiothon for Children’s hospital. I really enjoy listening to this in the past. As I said in a previous post, the stories from the kids are really inspiring and touching. I missed  it this year, as I was traveling (see previous Hawaii post and picture), but I heard they raised about a million dollars. I started listening to this radiothon in 2006 when Greg Thunder and Bo Reynolds were the morning hosts at KALC radio. Denise Plante was on KALC radio as well. Amy Freeze, who is now in New York, was on for a couple of years as well. My two favorite DJ’s that are on KALC now are Jamie White, from the morning show, and Slacker from Slacker and Steve in the afternoons.Another one of my favorite events in February is when Peter Boyles from 710 KNUS, and Ross Kaminsky from 630 KHOW, broadcast live from Winter Park for the National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD) cup at Winter Park Colorado. As a lot of you know, I have skied at Winter Park for many years with this program and will be going up this week in fact with Lucas. A couple of my highlights of this day is when Garry Defrange gets interviewed by Peter Boyles. A second highlight is Ross interviewing a visually impaired skier and the visually impaired skier is talking about how he skis This day is so moving to listen to and I am a huge supporter of this event. I really encourage you to give this a listen and maybe support this wonderful event. I am looking forward to going up to Winter Park this year to ski coming up next week. I will be sharing my experiences in a future blog post.Oh Boy! There are too many words to describe my love and enjoyment of Lois Melkonian. She has been a favorite of mine ever since January of 2006 when I first started to become a Bronco’s fan. Dave Logan and Lois first got me interested in Bronco’s football. Their show talked a lot of football plus other topics. I got hooked on the show that they did and have followed Lois throughout her career. Lois is one of my mentors in broadcasting. I have some excellent news to report that Lois has started a podcast with one of her friends, Faith Donaldson. “More to Life” is a podcast about how to accomplish your dreams. It is an inspirational podcast. I have listened to two episodes and hope to listen to more of them in March. Congratulations to you Lois! I really think that you have accomplished one of your dreams with this podcast and with your career in radio. I would really encourage readers and followers of my blog to check this podcast out. The only thing that is a little bit confusing is how to download the podcast to the computer. However you can listen on the website at Moretolifewithfaithandlois.com. The content will inspire you. It sure has with me.Jeff Matthews is joining KOAA tv as a new meteorologist. Jeff Matthews is originally from New Jersey. I got this from Terry Terrones, reporter for the Colorado Springs Gazette. Jeff has worked at stations in Maine and Wyoming tv stations. Congratulations to Jeff.There is a new morning show on 10.75 KQKS radio. It is the 107.5 morning show with Tony V. I don’t listen to this station because of the music they play (Hip Hop, Soul and R&B), but congratulations to Tony and his co-hosts.The next change that I would like to talk about is Steffan Tubbs. Earlier in 2017 I reported that Steffan Tubbs had left KOA radio after allegations, by a woman, saying that he sent threatening text messages to her. The charges were ultimately dropped. Steffan was hoping to get back on KOA radio, but KOA radio decided to go in a different direction. More on that direction a little bit later. Steffan is now on KNUS radio from 4-7 p.m. replacing Dan Caplis’s show. Stefan had filled in for Dan Caplis and the program director decided to replace Dan’s show with Stefan. Congratulations to Stefan! I am really happy for you. I flip back and forth from his show to Lewis and Logan on 850 KOA radio. Steffan has been on a vacation for the last couple of weeks, but he will be back on today. Randy Corporan has been doing a great job filling in for Stefan.This past January when it was announced that Steffan would not be returning to 850 KOA, they did a national search and they hired Marty Lenz. Marty has been in Minnesota and Sacramento and San Francisco. He worked at KCBS and KFBK radio in the past. He grew up in Colorado. One of my friends, Travis Sitler, said that he really enjoyed listening to him on KCBS. He mentioned in an e-mail to me that he is really great. I am excited by this change and I really enjoy the newly branded Colorado’s morning news with April Zesbaugh and Marty Lenz. Congratulations to Marty. I am thrilled to have you on 850 KOA.For those of you that have been tuning in to KBPI 106.7 wondering where the station has gone, well the station has moved to 107.9 which has a bigger and larger signal. What has replaced 106.7 you might ask? Well it is a new country radio station called 106.7 the Bull KBLL. The assistant program director is from the Bull in Sacramento named Brian Dub Washington. He will be working with JoJo Turnbeau to try and make the station great. Congratulations to this new country station. I will be a listener. I haven’t really listened yet, but when my friend Lucas comes to visit this week, we are going to be listening to a lot of the station. Lucas loves country.The first couple of weeks of February, Dave Logan has been on vacation. This week Rick Lewis has been on vacation. Yesterday Dave Logan wasn’t there. Robin Hart and Kathy Lee did the show yesterday. That show was fun to hear. Dave Logan was back yesterday February 23. And Kathy Lee was off yesterday. Susie Wargin filled in for the 5 o’clock hour. Also yesterday was the first pre-season game of the Colorado Rockies. I am looking forward to listening to the Rockies this season and I am really hoping that they do really well.Doug Kellett filled in last Monday for Mandy Connell. He did a good job. Kudo’s to him. His shows are more serious in nature than Mandy’s are. Doug has been a fill in before on KOA radio. He used to be a host on the now defunct KNRC radio1510. Doug has filled in on other radio stations across the country, so if you live in other parts of the country you might want to tune in.Casey Bloyer filled in on the Mike Boyle Restaurant show Saturday February 24. Casey is a wonderful substitute for Mike and he talks about some wonderful topics. He talked about Mom and Pop restaurants.A little bit of sports radio 104.3 The Fan news to report. Sandy Clough has been moved to the late evenings from 9 PM to 11PM. He is a great way to wind down the day. Also, Cecil Lammey and Michael Prichard have increased from 1 to 3 hours. Their show can now be heard from 9 AM to 12 PM. I like these changes for 104.3 The Fan.Thanks for tuning inJeremy Levy