Radio is in my blood.

I caught the "radio bug" in the summer of 1976. I was 12 years old when I first went on the air at WTBR-FM, the High School Radio Station in my hometown, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. A few years later I was the General Manager and Program Director of the station, so with confidence I went across town to one of the local commercial radio stations, WUPE-AM/FM , "Whoopee Radio" looking for a job. When I told the receptionist that I wanted to apply for a job there, she just laughed in my face and said "Doing What?!" After she calmed down, I explained to her that I worked at WTBR, and she let me speak with the PD, Bob Catan. He interviewed me and sent me off to the production room to make an audition tape. When I was almost finished, he came into the studio and asked "oh... by the way, how old are you?" and when I told him that I was 13 he put his hands on his forehead and said "You're too young to work here!" I soon found out that to work legally in Massachusetts, the minimum age was 15 and I would need to get "working papers" from the state. Well, I had no idea it was illegal for a 13 year-old to get a job. It wasn't a problem when I had a newspaper delivery route. Besides, the FCC gave me a license when I was only 13. So there I was, puzzled and surprised, and a little angry. He told me to come back in a few years. So that's exactly what I did. As soon as I turned 15, I got my work permit and went back for another interview. Bob Catan was still the PD and immediately put me on the air in December of 1978. I worked every available shift whenever they needed me and became Music Director in 1982. I left WUPE to finish college and get a B.B.A. in Business Management and Organization from the University of Miami. Since then I've been all over the country. After spending more than 3 years working at K-BEAR Radio in Big Bear City, California, I have moved to Elko, Nevada and I'm currently Assistant Program Director and Chief Operator/Technical Assistant at 
Ruby Radio Corporation
If you'd like to get in touch with me, send email to: 
djmikeevans@gmail.com

Sincerely,

DJ Brennan "Mike" Evans

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*Born & raised in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
*First worked as a mobile DJ in 1976 with DJ Bob Cooper of Sound Advice
*Member of the Albany, NY association of DJ's Record Pool
*General Manager and Program Director of WTBR-FM (Taconic High School)
*First job at a commercial station in 1978 at WUPE/WUHN, Pittsfield at the age of 15 Promoted to Music Director in 1982, but gave up the position to return to college
*Attended the University of Miami and received a B.B.A.
 in Business Management and Organization in 1986
*From 1986-1992 went up and down the east coast from WNWS Miami,
to WBEC-AM/FM Pittsfield, back to WUPE/WUHN Pittsfield as News Director,
 then to WQQY-FM Saratoga Springs NY as News Director....
and finally across town to WSSV-FM
*DJ at Club 519 in Albany, New York
*Moved to San Francisco in 1992
*Weekend air shifts at KTID San Rafael, California, 1993-1994
*DJ at JR's Nightclub in Walnut Creek, California
*DJ at the Whitehorse in Oakland, California
*Member of Soundworks Record Pool in San Francisco
*DJ at Daddy's Bar in San Francisco
*Worked at KOIT/KDFC/KZQZ San Francisco as Operations Assistant from 1997-2000
*Moved to Big Bear City, CA with my Alaskan Malamute "Nikita"
*Club Mix DJ on Internet Radio Station WDA1
*On-Air Mornings, AMD and imaging at KBHR-FM, Big Bear City, California, 2005-2008
*Assistant Program Director and Chief Operator/Technical Assistant at Ruby Radio Corporation, Elko, Nevada