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2021
Its here!
Tim Board Presenter at Radiodowntown.ca
Hello and Happy New Years, I hope 2021 is a far better year than what 2020 was. My name is Tim Board I host the weekly radio Programme Eye on Jamz. Eye on Jamz is a Programme dedicated to playing music by independent musicians from around the world and from a wide variety of genres. Many of the Programmes also features interviews with these artists.
A little bit about myself, I grew up in St. Louis Mis- souri and as a young child I always dreamed of be- ing on the radio. I grew up listening to the late Jack Buck announce St. Louis Cardinal baseball games and the late Dan Kelly calling St. Louis Blues hock- ey games. Those two were my biggest introduc- tion to radio. Many a night I would fall asleep with a small transistor radio under my pillow listening to those men.
As I entered middle school, music started to catch my attention. By high
school I was listening to
KSHE 95 in St. Louis, it
is an album orientated rock station or AOR as it it called in the radio busi- ness. Through KSHE I got my taste of the clas- sic rock artists. By the late 80’s I was in college and started working at the college radio sta- tion, here I discovered new wave bands like De- peche Mode, The Cure, and all the other great bands that came out of the 80’s.
I dabbled in radio during college, had a part time job at a small rural radio station in central Missou-
ri for a couple years but like a lot of dreams life hap- pened and I walked away. Fast forward to about 2013 when I started my first internet radio show Front Range Radio, which still is airing today. It was here I rekindled that passion for radio, that love to communicate and share things with others via the radio. It was also at this time I made the decision to concentrate my radio efforts to promote indie music, music that commercial radio will not touch.
Today I still host Front Range Radio, along with Eye on Jamz and I also co-host The Gnarly Dudes Show on a FM radio station out of Colorado. My love for radio is just as strong today as it was in that little boy falling asleep listening to baseball and hockey games.
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