Great Outdoor Radio Show Is Moving, Coverage Expanding

I have exciting to news to share with you. The popular Great Outdoor Radio Show I host is moving and going to a network!

That’s right! After more than 25 years at one radio station, the Great Outdoor Radio Show, produced by Gerry Gray/Great Plains Marketing, is moving to the Omaha-based Boomer Radio Network of stations beginning this Saturday, July 27^th.

Here I am blowing a duck call alongside Brad Leggett, General Manager of the Omaha-based Boomer Radio Network where the Great Outdoor Radio Show will be airing from 9-10 a.m. CT on Saturdays beginning July 27th. Photo by Nick Buras/Boomer Radio Network.

Coverage is expanding!

The Saturday morning, one-hour long, LIVE, interactive show will still run from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Central Time but on these Boomer stations in the Omaha and surrounding area: 94.5 FM, 97.3 FM, 104.1 FM, 1490 AM and 1420 AM.

The Boomer Radio Network coverage map of its various Omaha and surrounding area stations. Image courtesy of Boomer Radio Network.

The show can also be heard online by clicking the Listen LIVE link at www.myBoomerRadio.com

Boomer Radio can also be accessed by using your Amazon Echo, Dot or any other Alexa-enabled device.

A podcast (recording) of the show is even in the works.

Expect the continued variety of outdoor experts from different genres of Nebraska’s outdoor scene and beyond!

Recently, Denise Lewis of Fontenelle Forest’s Raptor Recovery team was on the broadcast with Chinook, a live screech owl, which was in the studio with us!

Great to have a pic snapped of me with Chinook, a screech owl, from Fontenelle Forest’s Raptor Recovery of Bellevue, NE. Photo by Denise Lewis/Fontenelle Forest Raptor Recovery.

Notables such as Governor Pete Ricketts, Tom Osborne, Bill Moos, Ross Jernstrom, Ralph Kohler, Tom Miranda, Dick Turpin, Herb Angell, Bob Foral, Jimmy Houston, Brenda Valentine and many others have been on the program, too.

I was fortunate to be able to interview former Nebraska Cornhusker volleyball stars Mikaela Foecke (next to me, in the middle) and Kenzie Maloney about their outdoor lives on the Great Outdoor Radio Show I host. Photo by Gerry Gray/Great Plains Marketing.

Among the professionals from the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission that you have heard on the show and will still hear, are: Conservation Officer – Rich Berggren, Captain/Law Enforcement Division – Duane Arp, Fisheries Outreach Program Manager/Fisheries Biologist – Daryl Bauer, Park Naturalist – Amber Schiltz, Outdoor Education Specialist – Christy Christiansen, Waterfowl Program Manager/Wildlife Biologist – Dr. Mark Vrtiska, Regional Park Manager – Bill Oligmueller and Park Superintendent – Jason Grof . There will be more!

Daryl Bauer of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission’s Fisheries Division (foreground) is a regular, very popular guest on my Saturday morning Great Outdoor Radio Show. Photo courtesy of Daryl Bauer/Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.

I invite you to listen (hear the wildlife calls) and join the conversation!

I am blowing my duck call into the microphone coming out of a commercial break during one of my recent Great Outdoor Radio Show episodes. The show is never dull and boring and is enhanced with a variety of wildlife calls. Photo by Rich Berggren/Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.

Be reminded that the Great Outdoor Radio Show is about what information you want to know about a specific topic from a special guest. Also, feel free to ask me any Nebraska Game and Parks Commission-related questions.

I look forward to chatting with you on the air. And, by the way, stay tuned for us broadcasting LIVE at various locations in and around the community as well!