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.