I’m Rob Holland. I used to broadcast “Saturday Night UP!” Salsa, Reggae and
Funk, in the late 70’s to early 80’s originally from the transmitter
building.
Here’s a photo of me from those days.
(later I was news-engineer, taught radio production, engineered and
produced KVMR Youth Magazine, spots and such).
July 14, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Imagine KVMR the campfire, around which we tell our tales that reach back over 30 years with thousands of storytellers, listeners, volunteers, broadcasters…
In the summer of 1978 I had just returned from an adventure that turned out to be a year long trip around the world hitchiking, riding the tops of busses with the luggage through Pakistan and Nepal. It started by crossing the States in a Volkswagon that needed to be push started. Met lots of people that way. A vagabond starting in Iceland, then Europe. The big step was bussing into Istanbul, and then never looking back from the eastward direction. Iran, Afghanistan (a favorite), India, Burma, Thailand, Korea – too many to name, several adventures in those carefree, daredevil days.
It was the summer of that return that I heard a local radio station was starting up in Nevada City. I attended a very hang loose meeting in the Foundry, and volunteered to do a children’s program. The day I drove up to the famous little cabin on Banner Mtn. to get a little training and actually go on the air was quite exciting. As soon as I arrived, the on-the-air duo expressed their gratitude that I had showed up, and then they left! I had not a clue as how to run the very simplistic, turntabled mixing board.
But I got the bug, broadcasted in many time slots, became Hap Hazard, got to interview Leonard Cohen and…, the stories are endless from there.