KZMU Radio announced hiring Jenna Whetzel as the new KZMU Radio station manager last month, after a lengthy transitional period at the community radio station. Whetzel, who is returning to Moab after completing her graduate degree, will oversee operations and help form the station’s future.
Local community radio station KZMU broke all records when it collected $44,191 in donations during this year’s annual spring Radiothon.
Instead of producing one radio play this year, Moab’s community radio station KZMU created a festival format with multiple, short-form radio plays produced by members of the community. The station ultimately received ten…
Moab’s beloved local radio station, KZMU (90.1 and 106.7 FM), started out of a dilapidated trailer in 1992. This year, operating out of a solar-powered station on Rocky Road, the station turns 30….
What’s the difference between a birder and a birdwatcher? Birdwatchers “like birds, and maybe notice birds…but they’re not really going out birding much, if at all,” said Brandy Bowmaster, one of the hosts…
“Pub Trivia never went away,” said Sam Van Wetter, a new pub trivia host this year and former trivia player. “It’s an omnipresent force in our lives that we carry inside of our…
Every Sunday afternoon, Herman Herrera’s plum-colored 1949 Oldsmobile is parked outside the KZMU community radio station, and Herrera can be found inside broadcasting his weekly show, Entre Las Piedras. “It’s Bluebird, el pájaro…
Grand County High School student Alexa Stripeika wants to be an engineer, but she’s not sure yet what kind. She’s inspired in part by her dad’s career as an environmental engineer. “He used…
Moab’s community radio station KZMU has aired the final act of this year’s radio drama, but that’s not the end of the story. Written by local playwright Jenna Whetzel, “Choreomania” is based on…
In 1518, a strange form of what some theorists believe to have been mass hysteria gripped hundreds of residents of Strasbourg, France: uncontrollable dancing, to the point of exhaustion and even death for…
