Tag Archives: News

06.13.24
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Another loss for Americana


More local radio stations bought out.


For 2 years in the 70/80’s, I closed radio news broadcasts: Nina Brown, KCOB News. Station owner, John Carl, gave me (a total newbie) a shot! I was bitten by the bug at 18 in Missouri at college radio station which interestingly was anagram KOBC. My career at KCOB was short because of low wages and unpaid attendance required for evening school board and city council meetings which didn’t fair well for a brand new mother. Later KCOB’s TC Mason who did morning drive moved to Colorado and Sports Director, Mick Trier moved to the Des Moines radio market. Being a small town local radio station, owner John Carl, allowed an opportunity for several county high school students with dreams of a radio career to serve as interns at the stations. KCOB AM and KLVN FM. One of those interns was Iowa’s own Joel McCrea who was just inducted to the Iowa Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

This story is not just a Newton, Iowa loss but a loss to a way of being…small towns who rely on their radio stations for local news, weather and sports… the important hometown play by play broadcasts for the high school teams. Small town radio stations being bought up by mega media corporations stifles the opportunity for many who dream of their voice being heard in cars, homes and earbuds….and it’s a loss to the way we live our lives giving up to large corporations while pushing out Americana! 

On a personal note, a besties’ daughter received her chance and found her dream on the beloved local morning show on KCOB’s sister station KRTI Energy 106.7. I weep for our loss, Sarah!

and so it is…..

05.15.23
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Just in……Bombshell

It came to me from behind the curtain…my view from behind the veil…and then the curtains slid back and all was revealed….starkly…in black and white…the understanding.

The Daily News of the world presented for our consumption brought to you by the “human reporters” predicting the future and enhancing the past in order to inject fear into our lives. What causes us fear is the stories we already tell ourselves about our perception of the next second, minute, day, lifetime. It works because we are programmed to react…..to fear and the great unknown!

If we examine our lives, we tend to live in the future…when they say this, I will say that…. What if this happens…..I heard they are going to do this ….what if we lose our house….what if that car behind me doesn’t stop…what if (name that soul) gets sick and dies….remember what happened last time.

This human scenario is what happens each time we glob onto what we hear or read from the “pick your opinion media” or “did you hear…” Constant expansion and retraction based on the future as explained by a human with an opinion vs facts. Because FACTS have not happened yet….and quite frankly facts are interpreted quite differently depending on how we filter these facts through our personal human event center…

Each moment our personal thoughts bleed all over our reality….and reality honestly only happens in each individual present moments of our lives. No one has all the pieces to predict what will happen in the next moment nor how each individual soul will perceive what just happened. Politics, war, pandemic, what medication will kill you, the next mass shooting, whether the United States will fall because of the debt ceiling drama. Stop the heartache of what might happen especially when it is being delivered to you from someone who really has no idea; but just reporting on the odds rather than the fact. The bottom line with the news media is it all comes down to who can instill the most fear gets paid the most money.

Until next time….