Inga, you made us proud
I love it when people I know well get a chance to shine.
In case you might not remember, I have worked for KMJ radio in Fresno, one of the nation's true heritage radio stations, for some 21 and 1/2 years. In that time, I have done every possible on-air job there, and been successful and well-liked and respected. One of the true blessings that I've received in that time is getting the chance to work along side some of the finest people a fellow could possibly be associated with.
Among them...Ray Appleton, the longtime featured personality there....who's worked in the United States and England on the radio, who has been involved with the professional music business, and been a successful businessman himself and is, bar none, THE person to hook up with if you want a good radio commercial done, and done right. He has been instrumental in getting a lot of small businesses off the ground and rolling, and he has done much for civic and charitable causes as well.
Another is Bill Woodward, for 35 years the voice of Fresno State sports on the radio, and a fine family man and one of the finest men as far as personal integrity I know. There is Roy Isom, the longtime farm and news director...who is as kind and giving a man as you'll ever meet. And there is Dennis Hart, who's been the equivalent of a one-man news department, so active and productive he has been on some of the biggest local news stories in the past year.
I could go on...but I'd never get to my point of this entry. Suffice it to say that all of my colleagues at Fresno's #1 radio station are worthy of praise for being not only good broadcasters, but great people. I am privileged that the Lord has allowed me to work there so long.
They are my teammates...as much as the players on a football team all have roles in making their team successful(or not successful), we all need each other to make KMJ the success it is.
And because of that, when one of my "teammates" gets to play on the big stage, and gets a national hearing, naturally I tend to beam with pride.
So tonight, I salute our evening talk show host, Inga Barks. Inga is a delightful, cute, spunky Christian woman, mother of three, devoted wife, and featured not only at night on KMJ(6-8 PM)but mornings on Bakersfield's KERN(9AM-12PM)as well. Inga lives in Bakersfield, and does her KMJ show from her home in the evening.
Inga was chosen to fill in tonight for Mark Levin...she is friendly with both Levin and Sean Hannity(her radio mentor), and tonight, the whole country got to hear Inga at her best. I am very proud of Inga and the way she did Levin's show tonight. Her sparkling personality shone like a searchlight tonight, and she charmed listeners around the country just as she does in Central California.
She was helped tonight by another product of Fresno, syndicated columnist, author, and professor Victor Davis Hansen, who besides being a friend of mine, is one of the nation's foremost authorities on international relations. Hansen's insights aided Inga's efforts considerably, and she made all of us who know and work with her proud.
I realize I don't share much about my "other life" on this blog, but I had to brag on Inga tonight. For just as a successful gospel singing group is made so by an "all-for-one, one-for-all" team attitude, so too is a successful radio station.
I am proud to be friends of the original Couriers, one of the most successful gospel music teams of all time, and I am also proud to be part of one of the country's most successful radio "teams" in the country.
We ALL need each other.
Posted on Dec 27, 2007 - 11:11 PM | [0]
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