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Wendy Corr:

Well, hey there folks. Welcome to The Roundup. We are a Cowboy State Daily podcast, and we focus on interesting people in the cowboy state. I am so pleased to be able to talk to this person, to this guest today. We've got a lot of ground to cover, but we have a lot of things in common, including radio in Wyoming, and then it's just going to go on from there.

But first, I want to be able to tell you about another podcast outside of this one, that's another great resource for anyone who's in the business world in Wyoming, and that is the Wyoming Business Alliance business from the basement podcast.

If you are a business person, if you want to become a business person, if you're looking for extra resources, ideas, inspiration, the business from the basement podcast is the place to go, so check them out.

But don't check them out just yet. Stay here with us, because we're going to be chatting with Scott Anderson. Scott embodies radio in the cowboy state. Scott has had or is either owned or operated radio stations all across the country and a little outside our borders, and has also then brought those talents and that passion for broadcasting to Wyoming and and has a great connection here with Cowboy State daily as well.

So good morning. Scott Anderson, how are you?

Scott Anderson:

Good morning, Wendy Corr, I'm happy to be here.

Wendy Corr:

I'm happy to have you. We tried to make this work last week, and Scott was you were hit hard by some sort of awful bug, and I'm so sorry.

Scott Anderson:

Yes, it's one of those things that happens once in a while.

Wendy Corr:

Yeah, sadly, it does. And when you're in broadcasting, it's genuinely a bad thing to get hit by a bug like that, but you're kind of above the actual on air broadcasting, now. You're an owner of four radio stations, but they're not all in Jackson. Tell us about your radio stations that you own now.

Scott Anderson:

So I have four in Jackson, and I actually have one in Island Park, Idaho, and I'm acquiring one in West Yellowstone, Montana. So I'll end up having a total of six. But in Jackson, we have a country station, KJAX. We have a rock station called KMTN, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. And we've got a Hispanic station, KSGT and a classic rocker KZ95.

Wendy Corr:

A Hispanic station. That is not something that we talk about a whole lot when in Wyoming, so to have a it's all Hispanic, all Spanish speaking?

Scott Anderson:

It's regional Mexican music and Hispanic speaking announcers. Jackson has an enormous Hispanic population, as do many towns in Wyoming. And so we made an effort many years ago, something like 25 years ago, to have at least part of our programming dedicated to our Hispanic population. So we dedicated a few hours a week on one of the stations and had a local crew come in and do the show.

And then when we had an opportunity to do a low powered translator on our AM station, we decided to go with a regional Mexican format, because we felt like that portion of our population needed to be served as much as anyone else. And so we've been doing that for quite a few years now.

Wendy Corr:

And obviously that went over well and that that's been well received. Otherwise you wouldn't still be doing it. That's fantastic. That's, I think that's fantastically forward thinking.

Tell me about what it is about radio that captured your life, because it did capture your life before you even came to Wyoming. How did you get started and involved in the broadcasting i