KPOV’s local program hosts
Andrew Shepard, AKA “ASHEPRock”
Center Stage Sound Engineer and Co-host
Touched by music at a young age, Andrew knew few things could elicit emotions like a good song and he’s been chasing those feelings ever since. Necessity is the mother of invention. Becoming an amateur sound engineer was the result of spinning knobs on guitar amps, 4-track recorders, and sound boards for live bands. An interest in home recording led Andrew to slowly build a modest home studio. In 2005 Andrew produced and hosted one of KPOV’s first interview programs, Conversation Libation where he interviewed local musicians and played their songs on his show. Andrew is honored to once again volunteer with KPOV to co-produce Center Stage almost 20 years later! When he’s not spinning knobs, Andrew can be found mountain biking, skiing, playing with his band, and enjoying the central Oregon lifestyle.
Atom Bram
Atom has been building and curating his electronic and underground dance music library for over 25 years. He has been a professional club, rave, and festival DJ in past years from Portland, Seattle, Ashland, and now Bend (5yrs). He is now committed to bringing cutting-edge and rare tracks from around the globe to the Central Oregon airwaves and beyond. He has two boys and loves spending time with his family; he enjoys snowboarding, golfing, and yoga and is interested in emerging technologies. Along with graphic design, corporate branding, and live music production, he is highly passionate about expanding musical awareness and inspiring people through dynamic professional DJ mixing. Atom hosts SubStation Bend on Thursdays from 10pm to Midnight.
becky brown
Becky is one of the hosts of Juniper Roots on Wednesday evenings from 8 to 10 pm.
Ben Salmon
Ben is the host of Left of the Dial on Thursday evenings from 8 to 10 pm.
Brian Yaeger
Brian Yaeger is a beer author (including "Oregon Breweries") and frequent contributor to Bend Source Weekly, but before he wrote about beer and stuff, he was a music writer and DIY zinester. A dyed in the wool Bendite, he skis Bachelor all winter and spring and floats the Deschutes all summer with a beer and his 80 lb lapdog, Holland.
Brian hosts Headtones, Tuesdays at 12-2pm.
bruce conrad
Bruce and JohnE are the hosts of Backroads on Monday evenings from 6 to 8 pm. They alternate weeks to keep a variety of great tunes coming your way!
Carol DuPuis
Carol DuPuis grew up in the Bay Area and hosts Audio Rays Thursdays 4-6p. Carol lived in Seattle for twenty-two years and worked at KEXP for nearly ten years in business development. She also volunteered on weekends to assist one of her favorite DJs. A lifelong radio listener, Carol is thrilled to be on the air at KPOV. She especially enjoys discovering new and emerging artists from around the globe while celebrating classic nostalgic tracks from more familiar artists. When not working her daytime job and listening to music, Carol enjoys spending quality time with her husband, David, nearby family and friends, and her sweet golden retriever, Joy.
carolyn clontz
Carolyn has lived in Oregon for 44 years; in Bend for 32 years. She taught in the Bend-La Pine School District for 19 years. When she retired from teaching in 2009 she wanted to try things that were very different from what she had ever experienced so she decided to become a program host on KPOV Radio.
Carolyn is one of the hosts of The Point on weekday mornings from 9 to 9:30 am.
Carrie & Shawn
Fifteen years of marriage, a dozen different bikes, and thousands of miles in their camper van listening to the best of Americana music across every landscape in the US…this is the essence that Carrie and Shawn Barrett bring to Americana Underground, Mondays 10am to 12pm.
A born radio geek, Carrie spent over 15 years working in commercial country radio in Columbus, Ohio and Austin, Texas where her love of acoustic, folk, and Americana music grew strong roots. She always dreamed of becoming a singer/songwriter, but realized it was more fun (and only slightly more lucrative) to be the one playing those songs on the radio.
As a military brat and Air Force vet, Shawn was influenced by his travels and the many cultures where he lived - Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Germany, and Texas…to name a few.
For now, he’s just trying to keep up with Carrie’s “Jeopardy-like” knowledge of whatever tune they are playing!
cAse Bateman
Case (he/Him) is a Pacific Northwest grown DJ and one of the hosts of Variable Velocity on Tuesdays from 8-10pm. Case grew up in Seattle and got his start in public radio as a host on KZMU in Moab Utah in 2018, but has been involved in public radio around the country as a donor and volunteer since 2001. Case enjoys a wide range of musical genes and makes a point to be up to date on current music from around the world that highlights a diverse range of musical backgrounds and inspirations.
Chris Clouart
Chris spent many years working in public radio before establishing a presence in the beginning days of KPOV. Now retired after a career in non-profit service. He hosts Acid Washed Genes, Tuesday 10am -12pm.
chuckaroo the buckaroo
Chuckaroo the Buckaroo is the host of Calling All Cowboys on Wednesday evenings from 6 to 8 pm and Zombies of the Stratosphere on Sundays 11pm to midnight.
David Miller
David Miller is a homegrown Oregon boy. Born and raised in Southern Oregon, David spent 10 years in Portland after high school. He worked in commercial radio in Portland and Bend for 15 years. David is a lifelong musician who performs regularly with his various projects around Central Oregon. The father of 2 adult children, David lives in Bend with his wife Kelly. Both are very active in the local community. David hosts Rockipedia Thursdays 4-6pm.
diane hodiak
Diane is the host of Carbonfreeda’s Powerup on alternating Fridays from 9:30am to 10am.
DJ Dennis
DJ Dennis is one of the hosts of Americana Underground, Mondays 10am to 12pm. He has loved Americana music before they called it that. The blues, folk, country and everything in between has been on his playlist for years (long before they called it a playlist). He likes to discover new artists and listen to many of the bands that helped to develop Americana music. Riding his Harley, volunteering, traveling and taking care of his family consume his time and he enjoy every minute of it. Like his shirt says, “I may be old, but I got to see all the cool bands.”
DJ Nimbex
DJ Nimbex is co-host of the Night Shift on Monday nights from 10pm to midnight. Raised in a home where vinyl was spinning constantly, music has been the soundtrack of his life from an early age. Raised by a Radio DJ father and music lovin' mother, Nimbex was incubated in a home of rock, soul, blues, jazz and hip-hop and started playing instruments at a young age. Mainly a bass player, his formal music education started with the trumpet and continued through piano, guitar, bass, synth and drums. Nimbex's sole focus is to share his musician's perspective on music and his love of groove, funky beats and lesser known gems with the Central Oregon community.
DJ Paul
DJ Paul’s family moved to the San Francisco area just in time for the Summer of Love. Paul was too young to participate but he did grow up listening to one of the original, free-form hippy radio stations, KSAN, where every show was like going to a friend’s house to hear their favorite music. When Paul found the same spirit lives on in Central Oregon at KPOV, he just had to get involved.
DJ Preet
DJ Preet is the host of folkdelica on Thursdays from noon to 2pm. He was born into a family that loves music. His mother played piano and collected American jazz and folk, Beatles, and classic Indian music on vinyl. His father played tabla and harmonium and recorded Punjabi raggas on reel to reel. Everybody would sing. He’s grateful for the opportunity to share his love of music through folkdelica.
eric catapano
Eric is the host of InterZONE on Saturdays from 8pm to 10pm.
Harrison McKinney
Harrison has lived in Redmond for 16 years. He is a proud transgender man and has his own multimedia business. He also has organized various inclusive clubs and events in Central Oregon. Truly a movie geek at heart, Harrison’s ultimate dream is to be a director of photography. In 2020, he graduated from OSU-Cascades with a degree in Social Science.
Harrison runs the board and cohosts the Wednesday Point weekly at 9am.
Reach Harrison on Instagram @mr.harrisonchevy
Jack Elliott
Jack is a musician, audio engineer, and lifelong fan of classical music. Born in Santa Barbara, California, he and his wife Jacquie moved to Bend in 2008 with a better-than-average cat.
Jack hosts The Sunday Classics, on the first Sunday of each month, from 6 am to 8am.
jay wells
Jay is the host of Vinyl Vortex on Fridays from 8pm to 10pm and a member of the Center Stage tech crew, Saturdays from 2pm to 4pm.
Jim Creel
Jim Creel’s true vocation is music. Although he spent nearly all his working life in technology, after an introduction to IT during his eight years in the Navy, Jim has worked professionally and been deeply immersed in music. He was given his first instrument as a toddler and began playing the guitar outside of home at the age of 12. For close to 40 years he has fronted his own band with vocals and guitar (and whatever else was called for in the moment) or played as a side man for other professionals. When not playing, he is listening and studying and becoming an autodidact in all aspects and genres of music. Working in radio has been a lifelong wish for Jim and led to his current devotion and continued study of progressive rock, which he shares with listeners on “Proglies,” Sunday evenings from 8pm to 10 pm. He is married with two adult daughters and 5 grandsons, all of whom seem to have inherited Jim’s talent for both music and humor.
jj jones
JJ is one of the hosts of Variable Velocity on Tuesday evenings from 8 to 10 pm.
john e
JohnE and Bruce Conrad are the hosts of Backroads on Monday evenings from 6 to 8 pm. They alternate weeks to keep a variety of great tunes coming your way!
John Hansel
John is the host of Circuit Bend on Tuesday night from 10 pm to Midnight.
Judy Petullo
Judy is a host of All Things Vegan on alternate Tuesdays from 5pm to 6 pm and a member of KPOV's programmer committee.
Judy works in accounting by day but nights and weekends often find her at KPOV editing her show, All Things Vegan, or helping with some of the many jobs at KPOV. She says, "Volunteering has been a real eye-opener. I never realized how much there is to do, and how many wonderful, dedicated volunteers there are. I have a lot of respect and appreciation for each of them." Judy enjoys spending time with her family, and fur critters: 3 cats and one dog. Other passions include gardening and reading and watching the many deer, birds, chipmunks, squirrels and other animals that frequent her yard.
ken McKenzie
Ken is the host of Ken and the Kindred Spirits on Sundays from 1pm to 2pm.
Kevin Byrne
Kevin is the host of Terrapin Station on Sundays from 10pm to 11pm.
kurt kempcke
Kurt is the host of Jazz ‘n Jambalaya on Thursday evenings from 6 to 8 pm.
k Spotter
Kevin is the host of Day Tripper on Tuesdays from 2-4 PM. Kevin has been an avid follower of music his whole life, and spent many years playing in bands on the west coast. He spent his early years on university campuses, enjoying the diversity and independence of college radio. In 2020, he moved to central Oregon, and decided to get back behind the DJ mic to continue his musical journey.
Louise Kaplan
Louise is a native Oregonian; born and raised in Portland and moved to Central Oregon in 2013, She was told by her high school guidance councilor when she was a junior that there was "no room in broadcasting for a woman" and that she should "learn to type". She went off and did her career, and upon (semi)retiring, took the KPOV DJ class at COCC and now is one of the hosts of The Point on Wednesdays from 9am to 9:30am.
Malcom Mcrae
Malcom hosts The Point on Tuesdays at 9 am. A lifelong Oregonian and retired K-12 educator, he and hist wife call Sisters home. After nearly five decades announcing equestrian events and high school athletics, Malcom has found his second childhood in the studio at KPOV where he continues to promote kids and community.
mike ficher
Mike is the host of The Ultimate Oldies Show on Sundays from 10am to noon. He is also a producer for The KPOV Daily Report and High Desert 4 Choices Trivia.
morgan p salvo
Morgan is the host of Onslaught on Saturday evenings from 10 pm to 2 am.
nancy glick
Nancy is the producer of the Gardening: Get Good at It episodes on The Point on 3rd Thursdays. She has been a certified OSU Master Gardener since 2006 and also enjoys volunteering for community radio.
pearl stark
Pearl is the host of Storyland on Saturday mornings from 9:30am to 10am and the Point Puzzle, which airs on Wednesdays during The Point at 9am and Open Air at 5pm.
Rich Tomera
Rich is the host of Channel Hopping on Wednesdays from 2 to 4 pm.
Ricky Lee
Ricky was raised on rock ‘n’ roll, but will venture into other genres as well, just to keep everyone honest. Back in his junior high days, in a galaxy far, far away, Ricky was the kid who always took his records to the teen basement parties. Playing music on the radio is a gas; hope you can dig it! Join Ricky Lee on Friday afternoons 2pm to 4pm for rocking, free-form, feel-good tunes from the old days and more recent times on Dig This!
scott Garriott
Scott grew up in Southern Oregon and hosted and arranged a music radio show “Neon Madman’s Radio” on KSKQ in Ashland for over a decade. He continued the show at KXCJ in Cave Junction from late 2000 until early 2023 when he moved to Bend. He is also an abstract mixed media artist, a musican/songwriter (with dozens of self produced/released
albums), and wrote, directed and edited a low budget feature film “Delusion Blues” in 2017.
stacie “Stacie dread” johnson
Stacie is the host of The Cosmic Community on Tuesday 4:30-5 pm.
Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Stacie was drawn to Bend in 2004 to ski mostly, but also, to finish her BS in Outdoor Recreation and Tourism studies at OSU-Cascades. Since then she has been integrating into her community by performing in local bands, working in the tourism industry and joining the volunteer staff at KPOV.
Steve Schaffer
Steve hosts of Our Soft Revolution on Sundays from 4pm to 6pm.
Stu “Studio” MacDonald
Stu is one of the hosts of Tirebiter Tunes on Sunday 6pm to 8pm.
Stu started in radio around 1973 at WMUA one the radio stations at UMass/Amherst for about 3 ½ yrs. Then graduation, family and various careers happened. He always had a great interest in nontraditional FM radio and as he traveled extensively around the country for almost 20 years it was always great to land in a new city or town and discover local stations that were interesting and quite often, they were college stations. Fast forward after moving to Bend Stu became friends with Tirebiter and after KPOV was up and running there was always a gentle nagging to get back on the air. When he finally decided to slow things down in life and work, there was suddenly time available to join the KPOV community.
ted schoenborn
Ted is one of the hosts of Juniper Roots on Wednesday evenings from 8 to 10 pm.
Teryl (DJ Tee Unique)
Teryl is the host of Urban Mix on Friday evenings from 10pm to midnight.
The Misplaced Modifier
The misplaced modifier teaches at a school near a majestic river. He believes there are three things all people say yes to: a brick of gold, a puppy, and a second chance. He also believes jazz drummers named Elvin, Tony, Roy, Jack, and Art are responsible for his constant tapping. The misplaced modifier is the host of Jazz Line, Tuesdays 6pm to 8pm.
The OTher One
The Other One is the host of Psychedelic Protest on Saturdays from 10am to Noon.
The Sandman
One half of The Night Shifters crew, and hailing from the West Coast, the Sandman has a deep love of all musical genres from around the globe… especially those with the dustiest samples, the heaviest drum breaks, and the funkiest basslines to make you nod your head to. Prepare to get shifted and uplifted with new tunes from the past, present, and future. The Sandman co-hosts The Night Shift with DJ Nimbex on Monday nights from 10pm to Midnight.
tim Cotter (Blue Dog)
Originally from Buffalo, NY, Tim grew up listening to The Allman Brothers Band, Led Zeppelin, Bonnie Raitt, Humble Pie, and Eric Clapton, among others. While Tim enjoys a broad range of musical genres, he has always been a lover of the Blues oriented styles and genres that so many musicians have turned to. When not listening to music, Tim is a professional photographer and enjoys skiing, hiking, swimming, biking and spending time with his wife and friends. Tim is host of Back Door Blues on Monday afternoons from 2 to 4 pm.
tirebiter
Tirebiter is one of the hosts of Tirebiter Tunes on Sunday evenings from 6pm to 8pm.
tom barry
Tom is the co-host of Sonic Rainbow, on Fridays from 4 to 5 pm.
He is a professor of sociology at Central Oregon Community College. His academic areas of interest include examining the intersections of popular culture and mass media and the production and reproduction of social inequities.
verda hinkle
Verda is one of the hosts of Juniper Roots on Wednesdays from 8pm to 10pm.
virginia “DJ Virg”
Virginia hosts The Verge as DJ Virg on Mondays from 4pm to 6pm. She is originally from North Carolina, but rolled through Bend while travelling the west coast in her camper van and decided she needed to stay. She got her start in radio as a host on WXDU at Duke University, and is thrilled to live in a place that values exposing the community to diverse music and programming not normally heard in mainstream media. Her day job is working to increase contraceptive care access (paid) and trying to get her cat, Cowboy, to walk on a leash (unpaid).