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Who We Are... meet the WKMS Staff |
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Anne Bidwell |
Anne Bidwell Somewhere in Paducah, deep underground, you'll find our Underwriting Representative Anne Bidwell. Anne has been contacting new business clients from the WKMS outpost in her basement since 2005. She is not a fan of the subterranean lifestyle, so her favorite thing to do is meet with potential underwriters above ground. Anne's career in radio and television dates back to a starring role in the Peters Township, PA Community TV classic Farmer Bob and His Barnyard Buddies. She played Patrick Pig…really. To this day, she says she still eats like him. When Anne is not busy gathering business support for WKMS, taking care of her husband or daughter, or attempting to clean and cook…she's contemplating how to work a trip to Starbucks into her schedule. Who are we kidding? Starbucks comes first! |
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George Eldred |
George Eldred George Eldred has lived most of his life in Princeton,
Kentucky except for a 15 year stint of studying music in Tennessee and
Kanas and working in camera and photofinishing shops in the Washington,
DC area. |
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Ronda Gibson |
Ronda Gibson Even before puberty, Ronda knew she wanted a career in radio. "Late at night, I'd turn on AM radio and listen to anything I could find for as long as I could stay awake. I used to sit in the middle of my bed with a tape recorder, pretending to be a disc jockey and would record hours of horrible pre-teen radio shows." Thankfully, Ronda gave up the mic and the Village People tunes and came to work for WKMS as Promotion/Development Director in 1999. You'll still hear her on-air occasionally, but we'll never give her keys to the record library! |
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Chad Lampe |
Chad Lampe Chad Lampe, a Poplar Bluff, Missouri native, was raised on radio. He credits his father, a broadcast engineer, for his technical knowledge, and his mother for the gift of gab. At ten years old he broke all bonds of the FCC and built his own one watt pirate radio station. His childhood afternoons were spent playing music and interviewing classmates for all his friends to hear. At fourteen he began working for the local radio stations, until he graduated high school. He earned an undergraduate degree in Psychology at Murray State, and is now pursuing a Masters Degree in Mass Communication. |
Kate Lochte |
Kate Lochte Born in Texas, Lochte grew up in Alabama, Alaska, New York, and Maine. She and Music City, Tennessee native Bob Lochte have sojourned in Los Angeles, Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Pulaski, and Greeneville, Tennessee and now, Murray, Kentucky. Kate has taught high school and college English; office-managed the Hunter Museum of Art in Chattanooga; written for the Chattanooga Free Press and the Pulaski Citizen newspapers; broadcast news and music for WMGL-FM and WKMS-FM; and broadcast for WETO-TV as the Kid's Klub's "Granny Goose." The Lochtes and their dogs enjoy being at home in the woods of Calloway County. |
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Stephanie Nutter-Osborne |
Stephanie Nutter-Osborne Originally from Virginia, Stephanie and her husband
moved to Kentucky in '97. "I moved to Lexington so Jeff could obtain
a PhD at UK. I was very much the small town girl, but grew to love the
area, and safe to say, I now bleed blue!" Stephanie pursued a PR
career in managed healthcare while Jeff worked on his doctorate, and the
two became three in 2000 with the birth of their son Jackson. In '04,
the family migrated to Murray State. |
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Tracy Ross |
Tracy Ross Tracy began working for WKMS in 1994 while a student at Murray State. He left the station for a year to live in North Carolina; returning to WKMS as a full-time staff member in 2000. Since then, Tracy has served as WKMS' Operations/Web/Jazz Director, and host of All Things Considered. Tracy has a love of music that borders on obsession which serves him well as host of Beyond The Edge, which he revived in 2001. Tracy lives in or around Murray with his wife, son, and two dogs. In his spare time, Tracy enjoys food, water, oxygen, shelter, reading, writing, listening to music, and criticizing the status quo. |
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Kathy Thweatt |
Kathy Thweatt Like Station Manger Kate Lochte, Kathy is also
a military brat…Army to be exact. Although Kathy's parents are originally
from west Tennessee, Kathy was born in Quantico, Virginia; so when her
father was assigned to Murray State's ROTC program, that was just fine
with them. They would be close enough to visit home, but far enough away
so relatives couldn't be intrusive. |
Mark Welch |
Mark Welch Mark Welch was born in Detroit and raised in Fulton, Kentucky. He graduated from Murray State University in 1978 with a degree in Journalism/Radio-TV. Mark caught the "public radio bug" as a student host of Jazz Horizons on WKMS, and in 1979 joined the full-time staff as host/producer. That same year, he married Karen Miller of Henderson who subsequently joined the station as Promotion/Development Director. "I left the station in 1985 to pursue other interests…" Mark says, "returned part-time in the early 90's, resigned a second time, and came back for my third stint in 1999 as Program Director." Mark and Karen have two sons, Marshall and Luke, a 150 pound Great Dane named Duncan, and Grace, a pastel calico cat who rules their home near Murray State's campus. Mark and Karen co-pastor a non-denominational bi-racial church in Murray, manage a Christian bookstore and coffee bar owned by the church, and are involved in campus ministry at Murray State, Young Life, and Murray Main Street. |
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Tony McVeigh |
Tony McVeigh
For
over four years now, Tony has been WKMS' link to what's happening in our
State's capitol. Tony keeps western Kentucky's public radio listeners
in the know. |
