As
the afternoon news anchor, Brad goes on the air
twice an hour from the WKBK news center. Between
newscasts, he monitors the wires, phones, and police
radio, writing and updating his stories to keep
them fresh. When news breaks, Brad interrupts current
programming, whether it's Rush or Howie, and goes
live to tell the residents of Keene and all of the
Monadnock Region what's happening.
As
a field reporter, Brad is on the scene to cover
events, interview the principal players, gather
audio (or video for the web site), and write and
file news reports for the morning anchor. While
most stories originate from planned meetings, public
hearings, conferences, speeches, etc., they can
also include fires, car chases and accidents, hostage
situations or standoffs, and other breaking news.
As the web videographer for
WKBKradio.com, Brad takes the Canon digital
camera to events that lend themselves to visual
interesting material. This would include fires,
of course, as well as groundbreakings, tree lightings,
rallies, grand openings, ribbon-cuttings for schools
or jails, community events (such as the huge Keene
Pumpkin Festival), demonstrations and protests,
movie premieres, and any of the many appearances
by political figures.
Brad has been with
WKBK on a regular basis since September 2008. However,
his first association with the radio station was
in 1988, when he volunteered to cover a rally in
Central Square featuring presidential candidate
Jack Kemp. The station's president, Tal Hood, appreciated
Brad's report so much that he was hired to cover
all the presidential candidates as they came through
the area. During the primaries, Brad met and interviewed
Michael Dukakis, Richard Gephardt, Alexander Haig,
Paul Simon, and Bob Dole ... unfortunately, he missed
George H.W. Bush.
While Brad enjoyed working
at the radio station, he was offered, and accepted,
a position as Assignment Editor at WNHT-21, a new
television station in Concord, NH. At the same time,
he was also teaching in the Mass Communication Department
at Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, which took
much of Brad's time. When the Concord TV station
went out of business, Brad did not find the opportunity
to return to WKBK.
After five years at FPC,
Brad left the college and transmutated into the
Internet business, helping to start a new web hosting
service with the region's first Internet provider,
MonadNet. Then he ran his own Internet company,
WebRyders, for ten years before selling in 2008.
At that time, he contacted Dan Mitchell and Paul
Scheuring at WKBK to see how they were getting along
without him (they were fine), and if they needed
a reporter (they did).