At first, I thought this was for new members, then I re-read Frank's note, so here goes.
I got my start in 1971 at age 15 in Bishop, California (population 3,000) at KIBS (now KBOV-AM), where I was a jock, Music Director, and eventually Program Director.
Graduated high school and got a gig as Music Director and morning drive jock at KSLY (now KKJL-AM), San Luis Obispo.
Returned to Bishop to help a friend literally build an FM (now KIBS) from the ground up in his garage, programmed it and did mornings.
Went to KUKI-AM in Ukiah where I was PD and evening jock, then to KOLO (now KIHM-AM), Reno as MD and evening jock.
In early 1981, I transferred to the KOLO Radio news department as an anchor/reporter and that fall, went to the CBS TV affiliate in Reno (KTVN, Channel 2) in the same capacity.
That started what I call my 30-year detour in TV news...which also included stops in Las Vegas (KTNV) and Phoenix (KTVK, KAZT, KNXV).
In Phoenix, I did some morning radio fill-in news gigs while working in TV and in 1997 was briefly partnered with Charlie Van Dyke for a morning show on KGLQ (now KMXP-FM). I spent four years (2000-2004) doing talk radio at KTAR-AM. I also was part of David Ferrell Jackson's early attempt at a national online radio site, RadioDigest.com, covering the Phoenix market from 1996-98.
In 2012, I went back to radio full-time as a traffic reporter for iHeartRadio in the Phoenix cluster, and in May of 2013, transferred to the news division, where I wrote, produced and anchored newscasts for the top 25 markets in the country on the iHeartRadio app.
I had the opportunity to return home to California in the fall of 2013, first doing the iHeart app anchor thing, and then switching to the station side at KFBK, Sacramento, where I produced the morning newscast before becoming Executive Producer, Managing Editor, Assistant News Director, and finally News Director and Afternoon News Co-Anchor.
Since July of 2020, I've been Afternoon News Anchor at Capital Public Radio (CapRadio), Sacramento's NPR station.
Side gig? I'm an automotive journalist. It started in 1997 with a weekly three-minute car review segment on KTVK's Good Morning Arizona, became a weekly half-hour magazine show about cars for seven seasons on KAZT, and now is my own site, MikeHagertyCars.com. I've written for BBC Cars, AAA magazines in six states and the NAPA Know-How blog in the past and now write pieces for The Los Altos Town Crier, CapitalOne's Auto Navigator and Forbes Wheels.
I got my start in 1971 at age 15 in Bishop, California (population 3,000) at KIBS (now KBOV-AM), where I was a jock, Music Director, and eventually Program Director.
Graduated high school and got a gig as Music Director and morning drive jock at KSLY (now KKJL-AM), San Luis Obispo.
Returned to Bishop to help a friend literally build an FM (now KIBS) from the ground up in his garage, programmed it and did mornings.
Went to KUKI-AM in Ukiah where I was PD and evening jock, then to KOLO (now KIHM-AM), Reno as MD and evening jock.
In early 1981, I transferred to the KOLO Radio news department as an anchor/reporter and that fall, went to the CBS TV affiliate in Reno (KTVN, Channel 2) in the same capacity.
That started what I call my 30-year detour in TV news...which also included stops in Las Vegas (KTNV) and Phoenix (KTVK, KAZT, KNXV).
In Phoenix, I did some morning radio fill-in news gigs while working in TV and in 1997 was briefly partnered with Charlie Van Dyke for a morning show on KGLQ (now KMXP-FM). I spent four years (2000-2004) doing talk radio at KTAR-AM. I also was part of David Ferrell Jackson's early attempt at a national online radio site, RadioDigest.com, covering the Phoenix market from 1996-98.
In 2012, I went back to radio full-time as a traffic reporter for iHeartRadio in the Phoenix cluster, and in May of 2013, transferred to the news division, where I wrote, produced and anchored newscasts for the top 25 markets in the country on the iHeartRadio app.
I had the opportunity to return home to California in the fall of 2013, first doing the iHeart app anchor thing, and then switching to the station side at KFBK, Sacramento, where I produced the morning newscast before becoming Executive Producer, Managing Editor, Assistant News Director, and finally News Director and Afternoon News Co-Anchor.
Since July of 2020, I've been Afternoon News Anchor at Capital Public Radio (CapRadio), Sacramento's NPR station.
Side gig? I'm an automotive journalist. It started in 1997 with a weekly three-minute car review segment on KTVK's Good Morning Arizona, became a weekly half-hour magazine show about cars for seven seasons on KAZT, and now is my own site, MikeHagertyCars.com. I've written for BBC Cars, AAA magazines in six states and the NAPA Know-How blog in the past and now write pieces for The Los Altos Town Crier, CapitalOne's Auto Navigator and Forbes Wheels.
