Kyle Hill

@kylehill.bsky.social

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Dad, husband, guy who writes & reads headlines on the radio in Central Missouri. Also, big into quizbowl and cheering for area sports teams.

It's been a lot to process for my erstwhile colleagues and me, along with our neighbors. It has been a sad and devastating past couple days as a new normal sets in and a content desert develops over our verdant, rolling pastures and croplands. I'm elated to have received messages of support and encouragement from friends in and out of the broadcasting community. And yet, there is potential. A wildfire may leave a charred landscape in its path, but from the ash a green pasture and new forests can grow. It's a turning of the page. That next page, the new chapter, may still be in broadcasting, or it may be elsewhere, or it may be a stay-at-home dad to an ebullient two-year-old. But it's blank, and ready for the story to unfold.
It's taken me awhile to write this, in part because of the unique situation I've been in since moving to Sedalia nearly eight years ago. Even years after finding myself on the periphery of the Kansas City media market, and even when providing content to stations in other parts of the Midwest, Moberly remained the home set of sticks, the mothership. KWIX and KRES were the epitome of small market radio, heavily investing time and talent in the communities they serve, embedding themselves in their everyday lives. And we did that with every accident report, city council and school board meeting, state capitol visit, cattle sale, town and county fair, final score, and annual church picnic. It was the one thing that I sought to capture at all of my professional radio gigs, whether it was in that red van rattling down Route 12 to Gentry, interviewing the top exhibitors outside the Benson Center, or even writing up a reader about the year's sorghum scholarship recipients.