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BEST
LOCAL FM PERSONALITY -ALAN REED
Every weekday, Alan Reed's alarm goes off at 2:45 (a.m.!) and he leaves his
Plainview home by 3:30 in order to arrive at his job at Quick Country 96.5
KWWK well before the 5 a.m. start of his Alan Reed & the Quick Country
Morning Show. Then, from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m., Reed is on air, with a vigor and
enthusiasm that doesn't seem possible when the sun hasn't yet risen. Reed
can't imagine doing anything else. “I like getting paid to goof off for a
living,” says Reed, whose time on-air is spent chatting with co-host Mary
McPhee (“it's like people are eavesdropping on the fun we have every day”),
interacting with listeners (“we love when they take the time to call us and
say ‘hi'”), facilitating listener-friendly activities like the Game of the
Day (Tuesday's ‘Battle of the Sexes' is popular), and playing country tunes,
from Brooks & Dunn to Alan Jackson to Reba. Reed started out in radio
more than 30 years ago, and has worked at “pretty much every radio station
in town except the Christian one and NPR.” He's been at Quick Country since
April Fools day, 2005. “I'm the April Fools joke that just keeps joking,”
Reed says.
BEST FM RADIO STATION - KWWK
In
Rochester, country is king. It makes sense, then, that Quick Country 96.5
ruled the voting for best FM radio station. Playing the biggest country stars
of today, the station is also the employer of the best local FM radio personality,
Alan Reed, and a member of the best local band, Ten Cent Biscuit's Jas Caffrey.
Operations Manager Brent Ackerman attributes the station's success to a mix
of good music and good personalities. “It's a little bit of everything—the
great music, the talent we have on the air,” says Ackerman. “It starts with
our morning show and it works its way right through Julie Jones and Jas Caffrey.”