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Mon-Fri Mornings 6:30am - 1pm
Saturday 7am to 1pm
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Hometown: San Anselmo. My mom's family has been in the Ross Valley since the 1850's.
Other places lived: San Diego, St. Louis and Portland
Education: Almost seven years of college searching for a degree I never found. Studied: Film and broadcasting.
Family: Middle child in a close family. Married to my great love, Jacqueline. Father of two daughters, Jody and Justine. Jody is settling in NYC with her partner Jeanette and Justine continues with Life 101 in the east bay.
Hobbies: Who has time for them! As a homeowner I have turned into a "handy-man" and that keeps me pretty busy patching up a 115 year-old house.
Other interests: TRAVEL! When I can, I escape to the friendly skies with my flight attendant wife for a long weekend in some foreign
country...like Turkey!
 
(Okay, that took over a week) Next stop...Poland, Prague and Paris in May, 2010 with a group of KDFC listeners.
Current favorite book: Anything by Dan Brown (just read "Digital Fortress") and want to read "John Adams" by David McCullough now that I have seen the mini series.
Current favorite movie: Whatever looks good on HBO (okay, not too current I guess)
Favorite classic film: "It's a Wonderful Life." We all need to be reminded now and then. 
Favorite sport: Like to sail, especially alone in a small boat when it's just you against the wind.
Favorite composers: Bach - for his precise counterpoint; Wagner - for his "huge" sound; Vaughan Williams - for capturing most things "English" so well; Chopin - for showing the piano how to sing so intimately. Also love the music of Cole Porter, Sinatra, Diana Krall, Stephane Grappelli, Pat Metheny.
Passion for: Cooking. I think it's time for some classes on technique. Haven't poisoned anyone...yet.
What would I do for a living if not on air?: I really haven't a clue. I love what I do and so fortunate to still have the chance to do it!
Greatest professional achievment: Winning "Bay Area's Best" Award 2007 - 2009 as "Favorite Morning Show" thanks to SF Magazine readers. You are the best!
Best thing about living in the Bay Area: The overwhelming sense of "home" I feel here and there is so much to see and do. They should make weekends longer so we can fit all the fun in.
Hoyt's email address: hoytsmith@kdfc.com |
photos of Turkish coast copyright 2006 Hoyt Smith |
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Dianne Nicolini
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KDFC While You Work
Weekdays 1pm -7pm
Sundays 9am-2pm
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Dianne would love your input on her Surprise @ 5, weekdays. Check out the kind of stuff she's been playing here. Dianne is also our mistress of the on-line KDFC Events Calendar featuring Dianne's Top 5. She's the go-to-gal for all things SF Opera on KDFC. Hear pod-casts of her conversations with the Opera's David Gockley on the San Francisco Opera page.
Dianne's been in radio since forever, well, beginning in Kansas City in 1980 on Classical KXTR. She's an Oakland native and still lives in O-town with her husband Jim who makes his living as something called a pediatric intensivist. (If you have to ask, you don't want to know.) Both kids up and out at this point and although that means that the house stays neat and tidy, it does get a little quiet sometimes. Dianne loves Jeopardy, anything Italian, edible or not, and spontaneous trips to the wine country.
Dianne's email address: dnicolini@kdfc.com
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Rik Malone
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Assistant Program Director, Evening Host and Grammar Police
Weekday Evenings, 7pm to 10pm
Saturday 5pm - 10pm
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Home town: Washington, DC, a great city that everyone loves to hate.
Other places lived: (non-scholastically) Baltimore, New York, Brooklyn
Education: Oberlin College, Ohio; Institute for Audio Research, New York; University of San Francisco
Family: After over 20 years of marriage to my best friend Anne, we have a joyful new project: our daughter Stella, born October 2002. We also share our space with two cocker spaniels and a somewhat loopy cat.
Hobby: I love to cook. I love to eat, too, and cooking is a great way to relax at the end of the day while at the same time satisfying a very primal need.
Other interests: Music (Duh!), reading, watching sports, puttering around our house and yard.
Most unusual prior job: Teaching fencing and stage combat.
Two books I never get tired of: Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and Sherman Alexie’s “Reservation Blues.”
Two movies I never get tired of: “Casablanca” and “Fantasia.”
Favorite sport: Baseball is the only sport truly given to us by the gods. And in 2004, we found out that the gods have a wicked sense of humor. Go BoSox!
Pet Peeve: Misused apostrophe’s.
If marooned on a desert island with only 12 CDs to listen to (and unlimited batteries), one would be: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. It’s one of the few musical masterpieces of the late 20th century that crosses ALL musical boundaries. And you can sing along. I’d also have to take Andreas Haefliger & the Takacs Quartet playing “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” and the “Trout Quintet.” Great music, enthusiastically and beautifully played. And you can sing along.
My best vacation ever: My wife “kidnapped” me and took me to Disneyland for my – umm -- a rather significant birthday.
Best thing about living in the Bay Area: After 16 years of “high anxiety” in New York City, I love the way the Bay Area gives you space for quality of life concerns, without losing any of its energy and vitality.
Quote: My favorite thing about this job is getting phone calls or Email from listeners (especially young people) who tell me, “I never thought I’d enjoy classical music, but now I listen to your station all the time.” That’s what it’s all about.
Rik's email address: rmalone@kdfc.com |
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Ray White
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Sunday on Classical 102.1 KDFC
2pm-7pm
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Home Town:
I've lived on a dairy farm in Massachusetts and out in the sticks of the West Virginia hills, but mostly I grew up in Wethersfield, Connecticut. It's a small, 370-year-old town on the Connecticut River next to Hartford. Before coming to San Francisco I lived in and around New York City for 24 years. They don't call it Fun City for nothing!
Education:
History major at the University of Connecticut until I discovered the campus radio station. Radio has been my magic carpet ride as well as my passport. I've been lucky enough to broadcast from the World Trade Center in New York many times, at the Berlin Wall the year it came down, and do live broadcasts from places like Tokyo and Abbey Road Studios in London.
Quote:
Duke Ellington said it best: "There are two kinds of music, good and bad"
Family:
Me and my wonderful young son Harrison.
Hobby:
Music… then there is music. Reading about music. Going to concerts. Talking about CDs, performers, concerts, instruments and recordings. I believe there is a pattern going on here!
Favorite Books:
My shelves are filled with ones I’m still trying to get to for the first time. But two I never get tired of are "Truman" by David McCullogh, and a collection of poetry on my night stand called "Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart".
Favorite Movies:
Weird as it may sound "Cinema Paradiso" and Cameron Crowe's delightful autobiographical film "Almost Famous". Currently we've got "Ratatouille" in heavy rotation at our place.
Favorite Sport:
As kid I played the line in football and there are times when nothing beats a great football game. But if rolling off a dive boat on the backside of Molokini near Maui and drifting down 70 feet below the surface with the sound of humpbacks in my ear and white-tip reef sharks cruising the reef in front of me is a sport, that's pretty close to perfection!
Pet Peeve:
Looking at the glass half empty instead of half full. That little tiny shift makes all the difference with me, some stranger, a sales clerk, a coworker or the ones close to me.
12 CDs for a Desert Island
In no particular order: The Beatles "Revolver,” every song used a different studio gimmick or arrangement trick… Yo Yo Ma's Bach Cello Suites… John Williams' Baroque Album -- his guitar playing is just incredible. He nails every piece. Anything by Peter Gabriel, and Pat Methany… The Gentle Side of John Coltrane feature my absolute favorite jazz tune EVER, called ‘Dear Lord’… Rie Schmidt and Ben Verdery's "Reverie" -- flute and guitar duets from a wonderful husband and wife team that's perfect for an intimate or romantic dinner… Leo Brouwer's El Decameron Negro performed by William Kanengiser… legendary English folk singer Nick Drake's "Bryter Layter.. Lang Lang's recording of Rachmaninov's Variations on a Theme by Paganini -- I know every note and nuance of that piece yet this kid breathes new life into a dear old friend… German composer Paul Hindemith's ballet score "Four Temperaments” always seems to take me somewhere special, and isn't that ultimately what music is all about?.. And how about an album from Bob Dylan's late-early-middle period ("Highway 61" or "Blonde on Blonde")?
Best Thing about Living in the Bay Area
The Bay Area is quaint and truly international at the same time. It's got it all... natural beauty, incredible history, culture with lots of music. Then there is the openness and diversity which is so important to me. I think the fact we sit right next to the magnificent Pacific Ocean, with it's reinvigorating breeze that has come across thousands of miles, allows us to drop all our baggage and re-invent ourselves.
A Few Other Favorite Things
My son Harrison… espresso (pulled short)… Paris… old Martin guitars… west Marin back-roads… Cape Cod… New York City (except in August)… Swiss watches… conga drums and Afro-Cuban music, koa bowls and Hawaii (the big Island)… fountain pens… great stereo systems… atlases(new and old), history books and biographies… carefully re-mastered CDs (makes all the difference)… turtles, a wonderful meal with great friends… the Golden Gate Bridge… keeping a journal (since 1971) and container gardens. |
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Bill Lueth
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Program Director
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We love getting feedback and input from our listeners.
We conduct a number of surveys each year, we bring in listener advisory panels a couple of times each year, we take requests every day. Thanks for being involved so we can make this the best station for our community.
See what we’re talking about lately…
Hometown: Grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis, and elsewhere in Minnesota
Education: After singing in rock bands, and dreaming of a career as a trumpeter, a hockey stick in the mouth in a high school game changed my course. U of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, and the U of Nebraska are my Alma maters with music degrees in opera performance. While a grad assistant in Nebraska, I dipped my toe into broadcasting at a local public classical station, and made the switch.
Career: I came to San Francisco in 1989 to do the morning show for the old KKHI classical station. In the mid 90s I anchor the news for the short-lived KPIX-FM, and anchored the OJ trial. I came back to classical and KDFC in 1997 as it’s morning host and PD.
Family: My wife and two boys live in the East Bay suburbs.
Hobbies: See above. Running around with them takes up much of my spare time, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Other interests: I’m an ESPN Highlights addict, I love reading books on my BART commute, we enjoy having dinner parties with friends.
Current favorite book: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. The story of a young girl in WWII Germany. A little bit like Anne Frank’s story without the hiding part. Told from “death’s” perspective, yet inspiring and moving.
Current favorite movie: I don’t watch many movies twice, but I’m still a Lord of the Rings fan. I also was hit hard by Field of Dreams years ago. “If you build it they will come.”
Favorite sport: I was a hockey player and wrestler, and still enjoy watching hockey, plus baseball and football too. I love watching my sons. One is a gymnast. The other plays Water Polo and baseball.
Favorite composers: That’s a question a program director can’t answer. I love them all! If the music is good… |
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