People

Allen Fowler is the Chief Engineer for WKMS and our technical guru. He enjoys working at WKMS and largely remains a mysterious guy. 

Asia has been hooked on NPR ever since first hearing Garrison Keillor talk about that extraordinary species: the English major. A Murray State gal through and through, she studied English and a whole slew of Liberal Arts as an undergrad and...

Chad Lampe, a Poplar Bluff, Missouri native, was raised on radio. He credits his father, a broadcast engineer, for his technical knowledge, and his mother for the gift of gab. At ten years old he broke all bonds of the FCC and built his own one...

Jeff Miller moved to Murray from Connecticut 7 years ago to begin a small farm with his brother...His farm produces several varieties of blackberry in addition to pears, peaches, apples and plums... Since moving to town, he has also been an...

Jenni Todd, a native of Murray, attended Murray State University for her undergraduate degree in Music Education. After graduation, she attended Florida State University and received a Masters degree in Arts Administration from the FSU College...

Kate Lochte was born in Texas, and grew up in Alabama, Alaska, New York, and Maine. She and Music City, Tennessee native Bob Lochte have sojourned in Los Angeles, Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Pulaski, and Greeneville, Tennessee and now,...

Kathy Thweatt grew up in a military family, so she's lived all over the place including Virginia and Frankfurt, Germany. She graduated from MSU with a Bachelor's and a Master's in Music Education. On Sundays you can find Kathy at Memorial...

Matt "McG" Markgraf joined the WKMS News Team in January 2007, while pursuing his bachelor’s degree in theatre at Murray State. Now he's got a master's degree in creative writing and is hard at work on "the next great American novel" - that is ...

Our Paducah/McCracken area Underwriting Rep has spent half of her life as an employee of WKMS and loves public radio. “The world has gotten so much smaller with technology, but public radio is the one thing that I depend upon the most to keep...

Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s...