![]() ![]() “Number one, never interview a combine operator whose combine has broken down (yes, that is not a good time) and number two, never drive out into a stubble field (sometimes a hot car exhaust can cause the wheat straw to catch on fire).” “I have two hard-and-fast rules for harvest interviews,” Tad said. “Now we feature interviews with various guests.”Īs news and sports director, Tad has attended countless city council and school board meetings plus special events, in addition to football and basketball games and track meets.ĭuring wheat harvest, he goes to the field and interviews farmers in their combines. “Originally I would ask a question and ask people to call in with opinions,” Tad said. In addition to news reporting on KKAN-KQMA, he does a daily morning radio show. “The manager of the radio station talked me into coming back to stay, and I’ve been here ever since.” “In 1972, we were back in Phillipsburg visiting friends for Christmas,” Tad said. Next he came to Phillipsburg for two years and then to a radio station in Idaho. Tad went to Fort Hays State University and worked part time at station KAYS, filling out logs and writing copy. “I learned a strong work ethic from her,” Tad said.Īs an eighth grader, Tad began sweeping floors and playing records at the local radio station for free. Tad’s mother went to a typing class at Garden City Community College and got a job to raise her son. When he was eight, Tad’s father was tragically killed in a hunting accident. Tad’s family moved to Garden City where he grew up. In 1933, he was born at Oakley, a rural community of 2,106 people. He has had an incredible career in community radio. ![]() Tad Felts is news and sports director at radio stations KKAN and KQMA in Phillipsburg. I hear a radio program called the Tad Poll which one legendary broadcaster has been doing for decades in rural Kansas. By Ron Wilson, director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at Kansas State University. ![]()
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