In addition to SPENDING time hanging out behind the mic, the following people keep things going behind the scenes:
Ron Edson is our Head Organizer and a seasoned radio broadcaster. Ron plays many roles at KAAD as our audio production technical specialist and systems analyst. Close to his heart is his role as Youth Radio Education Director. Ron also educates many of the KAAD staff personnel on a variety of audio production and station operations topics
Cooper Gerhart hosts The Friday Morning Show and is an Engineer in Training, learning how to set up the schedule. Two Scoop Coop, as she is known, provides KAAD a modern sound.
Ken Horn makes beautiful signs for us to hold up on important occasions, (like APPLAUSE), digitizes music for our library and serves as a sidekick on Steve Weldon’s Gold Country Morning. Ken’s shares his love of the Blues on his show Crossroads Sunday and Monday evenings.
Lillian McLeod has brightened Wednesdays and Thursdays with Diamond Lil’s Morning Show, (with Ronson on Thursdays). Lil engineered the schedule on those days, and as a long-time singer/musician, applied her musical talents and sensibilities to setting up wonderful music choices on Music Roll Medleys.
Alan Perez serves as Straight Man to Steve Weldon on Mondays and Tuesdays on Steve Weldon’s Gold Country Morning. Alan selects the cuts for Music Roll Medleys and engineers the schedule during the weekdays.
Arnold Puccinelli is KAAD’s Webmaster. He’s also the President of the KAAD Board of Directors and a General Contractor who has transformed KAAD’s auxiliary space on the Cassina High School campus into a very functional recording studio. He is also a wood artist who makes beautiful wood items to sell for KAAD’s benefit.
David Simerley hosts Traffic Jam on Friday afternoons with an assist from Sue Thoms. He has created a huge number of programs for the station, most of them related to music and cultural history, including the Dave Allen Show heard on Saturday and Sunday mornings. He serves as a Director on the KAAD Board, writes the KAAD newsletter KAAD-versations and various grants, helps new people get launched, engineers the schedule three days a week and is on hand to help whenever there is a crisis.
Ellen Stewart is the General Manager of KAAD. She makes the radio schedules five days a week, recruits new programmers, chooses syndicated programs, updates the website, records and edits a variety of programs including her show, Contributors, writes the KAAD-versations newsletter and grants, provides training to Cassina students and serves as Executive Director to the Board of Directors.
Jim Thompson is our computer guru, audio engineer, trainer, and DJ, curator of music from not one not two not three but four genres of music. Jim creates the schedule for Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10 in the morning to midnight with mostly his own shows, the flagship being Heavy in the Hills. In 2016, Jim helped birth KAAD technologically and has kept the place running ever since.
Susan Thoms hosts Earlene Smith on Equestrian Arts and Donna Bach on Well Being, shows up to chat with David Simerley each Friday afternoon on Traffic Jam, serves as Secretary for the KAAD Board of Directors, and supports just about every KAAD event or scheme.