Randy Adams
Klamath Radio’s Program Director is Randy Adams, who has been
in radio non-stop since he was a freshman in
high school.
A graduate of Klamath Falls’ Sacred Heart Academy, Adams has
most recently been named National A/C Program
Director of the Year at the New Music Awards in
Hollywood for the past two years. Sunny 107,
the station that Adams is morning show host, has
also won Station of the Year in the same genre
for the last two years. The awards are the
first nationally acclaimed awards for any
station in Klamath Falls broadcasting history.
With five stations to program, four of which he selects music
and air talent for, Adams keeps busy. He is
also the stations play-by-play voice, having
broadcast numerous state championships for the
OSAA radio network and the OAB radio network, as
well over 20 local teams’ state title games in
various sports. He has been the summertime
voice of Klamath Falls Falcon baseball for the
past 17 seasons. Sportscasting firsts include
being the initial play by play voice for South
Medford High School in 1985; one of two
announcers selected to broadcast the American
Legion World Series coast-to-coast via internet
in 2004; the first play-by-play announcer of a
state soccer championship match (Klamath Union
vs. Jesuit, 2000); and was the first to
broadcast two Klamath Falls high school state
championship baseball games from the same venue
on the same day, in which Henley and Mazama both
won state titles at PGE Park (formerly Civic
Stadium) in Portland in 1996. His broadcast of
the Oregon Tech-University of Oregon exhibition
game was carried on
www.goducks.com and KFLS as well in 2005,
and he was the voice of the Oregon Tech Owls
football, basketball, and baseball in 1980-81.
Adams began as the baseball play by play voice
in 1979.
He has served as news director for two different stations in
Medford, and at the age of 22, was the Program
Director and morning man for two stations in
Ukiah, California. He also is a former
columnist with the Klamath Falls Herald and News
as a contributing writer and currently writes
weekly columns for New Music Weekly, a trade
magazine based in Hollywood, California, and the
Pioneer Press, a Klamath Basin weekly
news-magazine. New Music Weekly is sent to
radio stations in all 50 states and
internationally, and Adams’ columns can be found
on line by logging onto
www.newmusicweekly.com, clicking on “Inside
NMW” on the left tabs, and choosing “The Adams
Files”, the name of the weekly column, dedicated
to the music and program directors in radio who
face similar challenges in small and medium
market radio. After stops in McMinnville,
Roseburg, Ukiah, Santa Rosa, and Medford, Randy
returned to Klamath Falls in 1989 and was
appointed program director and morning man in
1990. There were only two stations in the
building then, now Klamath Radio has five.
“It’s quite a challenge keeping up with things, but it beats
working for a living”, says Adams.
Randy is happily single and enjoys golf (fair weather only,
please), bowling, karaoke, movies, playing his
drums with the makeshift group RSS, and lists
his favorite hobby as “sleep”. His favorite food
is Mexican and his favorite all time musical
artist is Jimmy Buffett.
Contact Randy Adams at
randy@klamathradio.com |
