Description
Coos Bay School District owns and operates two radio stations, operating on three frequencies.
91.3 FM KMHS Is a non-commercial educational station (NCE). An NCE is a radio station or television station that does not accept on-air advertisements (TV ads or radio ads), as defined in the United States by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and was originally intended to offer educational programming as part, or whole, of its programming.
AM 1420 & 105.1 FM KMHS Is a commercial radio station operating on AM 1420 with translator (a lower powered signal used to repeat programming from another source) K286CR at 105.1 FM. These stations make most of their revenue by selling airtime to be used for running radio advertisements.
Location
Opening Hours
Tuesday
08:00 am to 05:00 pm
Meet the Instructor
Chris is our Broadcasting Instructor at Marshfield High School and is managing our radio stations; 91.3 KMHS and 1420/105.1 KMHS.
Chris was born in Muncie, Indiana home of Ball State University (according to David Letterman "It's The Harvard of Muncie.") and the former WWHI 91.3. Nowadays it is WCRD and is owned and operated by Ball State University but in Chris' days it was the
... more e of the Muncie Community Schools and where he got started as a broadcaster.
Broadcasting took Chris from Muncie to markets in Florida, Ohio, Vermont, New York and Georgia where he hosted multiple radio shows, hosted events and concerts and managed a number of successful radio stations. Chris then transitioned into teaching broadcasting in 2016 but never left professional broadcasting far behind still hosting and producing programs, voicing advertising and producing events in his extra time.
Chris' work with educational broadcasting has produced a number of national and state award winning student broadcasters including students who have continued their journey into professional broadcasting both on radio and television stations across the Untied States.
If you see him at a Marshfield sporting event be sure to say hello.