http://bump-drafts.com/2007/10/31/how-i-got-here-part-ii/ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:46:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://bump-drafts.com/2007/10/31/how-i-got-here-part-ii/#comment-35 Valerie Ing Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:59:32 +0000 http://bump-drafts.com/2007/10/31/how-i-got-here-part-ii/#comment-35 Hi Jim! Caroline Bryan is visiting me this weekend (celebrating her 40th birthday) and last night we were talking about the first time she and I met in the KSOR newsroom back in...um...I think 1986...that's what we were debating, what year we met and became friends for life. Dawn Nestor's name came up, she said, "I wonder what she's doing now?" and in googling her name, we found your blog! It was great to read your story; it brought back a lot of memories! I don't know if you knew or remember any of this, but KCMX was my first paid commercial radio gig too, in fact I think you may have been hired when I left, because I was pulling the weekend shift from 7pm to 2am, and did some of the weekend afternoon shifts too (I remember babysitting a lot of baseball games on the AM and cutting those cheesy "You've got the Light on...Light 102" carts to plug into the FM cart machine to go inbetween those 4 reel to reels. I also remember once totally spacing the task of changing the reel to reels, and the automation system kept switching from one reel to the next to the next and the tape ends were just fluttering in the wind on the takeup reel!!! Reel to reels...haven't used one of those in years. Anyway, I left KCMX to do late nights at KBOY around the same time you came on board there. And I'm still in radio. After graduating in 89 I moved to the Greek island of Crete for awhile, then landed a job at a public radio station on an island in Alaska, and stayed there for 13 years, although after 7 years I left the station and opened a coffeehouse. Then in 2002 I came back to civilization, somehow coming back to where it all began...I'm now the Northern California Program Coordinator for JPR, running our studios in Redding. And I host the daily afternoon classical program...the one Pat Daly used to do at JPR. I think he's still at KDOV. JPR is a different animal these days. Not many students involved in broadcasting except for a few in the news department. Too bad, because I thought we were great at teaching people how to do great, responsible radio. You know, a lot different than other 'college' radio stations. Caroline went on to work at KMED, then sometime in the mid-90's she decided to move to Alaska to work in radio too (different island, different radio station), but now she's a corporate jet pilot for Chevron. Anyway, do you have an email address for Dawn Nestor or have some idea what she's doing these days? We'd love to get in touch with her! -Valerie Ing-Miller Hi Jim!
Caroline Bryan is visiting me this weekend (celebrating her 40th birthday) and last night we were talking about the first time she and I met in the KSOR newsroom back in…um…I think 1986…that’s what we were debating, what year we met and became friends for life. Dawn Nestor’s name came up, she said, “I wonder what she’s doing now?” and in googling her name, we found your blog!
It was great to read your story; it brought back a lot of memories!
I don’t know if you knew or remember any of this, but KCMX was my first paid commercial radio gig too, in fact I think you may have been hired when I left, because I was pulling the weekend shift from 7pm to 2am, and did some of the weekend afternoon shifts too (I remember babysitting a lot of baseball games on the AM and cutting those cheesy “You’ve got the Light on…Light 102″ carts to plug into the FM cart machine to go inbetween those 4 reel to reels. I also remember once totally spacing the task of changing the reel to reels, and the automation system kept switching from one reel to the next to the next and the tape ends were just fluttering in the wind on the takeup reel!!! Reel to reels…haven’t used one of those in years.
Anyway, I left KCMX to do late nights at KBOY around the same time you came on board there.
And I’m still in radio. After graduating in 89 I moved to the Greek island of Crete for awhile, then landed a job at a public radio station on an island in Alaska, and stayed there for 13 years, although after 7 years I left the station and opened a coffeehouse. Then in 2002 I came back to civilization, somehow coming back to where it all began…I’m now the Northern California Program Coordinator for JPR, running our studios in Redding. And I host the daily afternoon classical program…the one Pat Daly used to do at JPR. I think he’s still at KDOV.
JPR is a different animal these days. Not many students involved in broadcasting except for a few in the news department. Too bad, because I thought we were great at teaching people how to do great, responsible radio. You know, a lot different than other ‘college’ radio stations.
Caroline went on to work at KMED, then sometime in the mid-90’s she decided to move to Alaska to work in radio too (different island, different radio station), but now she’s a corporate jet pilot for Chevron.
Anyway, do you have an email address for Dawn Nestor or have some idea what she’s doing these days? We’d love to get in touch with her!
-Valerie Ing-Miller

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