Originally published KVMR Listeners’ Guide Jun./Jul. 2003
My first memory of KVMR is the friends I have made. To me they are like family. Sharing a pleasant conversation and a joke or two has been a highlight of every week. I looked forward to doing my show because I knew I would see many of my friends.
My shows. From Tuesday mornings 1-4 a.m. then Thursday mornings 4-7 a.m. And finally alternate Wednesdays 2-4 p.m. The music and interviews have been fun and rewarding. But the phone calls and mail (real and electronic) have been extra special. People taking time from busy lives to express how much they like the music. One lady’s letter told how as a child her father sang her to sleep to the “Cattle Call.” A letter from a trucker told about turning his radio on in Woodland, and listening until he lost us just outside Red Bluff. Thinking back on it certainly brings a rush.
My first year co-producing the fair broadcast was amazing. Organizing the jobs with Tracy Corris. The recruiting the people who would don various hats, and make everything happen. They worked with eagerness and enthusiasm. 
Any problems or gremlins were met head on and quickly dispatched. I will never forget how people at the fair took to KVMR. So many of them had never heard of us. When the fair was over we had conducted more than two hundred interviews, and people had taken well over fifteen hundred program guides. Walking among the fair goers we heard comments like,”that KVMR is pretty cool,” “how long has KVMR been around,” and “I can’t believe I’ve never heard them.”
Of all the many memories, friends are at the top of the list. And at the top of that list is my special Tuesday pal, Phil.
by Jim Diffey
