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Idaho Radio News is an up-tempo, active look at the Idaho radio industry.
Primarily focused on the Boise market, the site covers every aspect of that sound you hear on the local airwaves. From ratings, to personnel changes to the latest stunt – IRN works to cover every aspect of Gem State radio.
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Boise television news producer Don Day started the blog on a whim in September 2003, and can’t seem to quit the habit. He works for KTVB-TV (who graciously allow him to write the blog), and produces a wide variety of content for the station, both for television and online consumption. His primary responsibility is the design, content and day-to-day production of KTVB.COM and ZIdaho.com. Opinions you may find here are his alone – and aren’t necessarily those of KTVB. This is his own deal and is separate from the day job.
His online work has garnered several Idaho Press Club awards, regional Edward R. Murrow award, and has been voted “best website” by the readers of the Idaho Statesman. He has also received the “Best Newscast” award from the Idaho State Broadcasters Association.
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are you people crazy the true oldies station is the best in the valley ,but some corprate nincom poop is killing my favorite station . i only hope its not going to be another mexican station . please give us back our oldies station
Long time Idaho Falls broadcaster Jim Garchow passed away early Sunday morning at his home in Idaho Falls. He was 72.
Garchow, who has called minor league baseball with the same club longer than any other broadcaster in America, succumbed to acute leukemia, the Garchow family said in a news release Sunday afternoon.
“We appreciate the thoughts and prayers as Dad bravely faced the challenges of illness this year,” the Garchow family said in the release. “He was so happy to have completed his 39th season broadcasting the Chukars games on Labor Day. We will miss him everyday.”
KUPI broadcast partner John Balginy said Garchow listened to his grandson, Michael Berger, lead Skyline to an upset of Hillcrest on Friday night.
“He was alert the whole night,” Balginy said. “Then after I signed off, he went downhill.”
Garchow battled numerous health issues over the past year that forced him to leave his role as the voice of Skyline football and basketball. The last high school football game he broadcasted was Sept. 5, 2008.
Poor circulation in his legs forced him from the booth and into the hospital, where he spent three of six months during the winter and spring. Eventually, doctors amputated his right leg eight inches below his right knee.
A bout with pneumonia kept him in the hospital until June 15. But come June 23, he was back in the broadcast booth barring his name at Melaleuca Field, ready for his 39th season of professional baseball.
He started broadcasting baseball in Idaho Falls in 1970 with the Idaho Falls Angels.
Garchow was restricted a wheel chair and oxygen tanks as the season began and then improved enough to switch to a walker. But his health deteriorated as the season went on.
In addition to his broadcast duties at KUPI, Garchow served as the station’s general manager for 37 years.
Story courtesy of Mike Lycklama of the Post Register.
I never worked for Jim, but worked across town from him. He was a class act! Nobody can call a game like Jim. He will be greatly missed.