Ron Meredith, Owner and Operator, started his career in broadcasting in 1979 in LaFollette, TN. He purchased WYSH in 1990 and has bought or built a total of 8 radio stations in East TN since then. If it has to do with radio, Ron Meredith has done, can do, or will find out how to do it in order to bring results to clients and listeners.

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Ricky Kitzmiller:

Ricky Kitzmiller, better known as Big Rick. He is an on-air host for Trading Time Primetime. Rick loves working both on the air and with clients. He's married to Kim and has one daughter, Kyanna.

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Kevin Coiner:

Kevin Coiner has 15 yrs experience in creating successful advertising campaigns for a diverse range of clients with focus on unique characteristics of each business. He has two children, Eli and Makenzie, and has called Knoxville home for over 28 yrs

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Candi the Merle Girl:

Candi the Merle Girl, also known as Jana Payne, has been with our family since 1997. Jana does on-air work and a great deal of production work. When you hear the great sounding commercials on Merle, you can thank Candi the Merle girl.

Jasper Young:

Jasper Young has over 2 decades of business to business salesexperience, specializing in building media campaigns for a wide variety of clients. He is married with one daughter. He also serves as vice president at the Claxton Optimist Club and is in charge of the youth basketball program.

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Jim Harris:

Jim Harris, News and Sports Director. Jim came to our family in 1998. He worked his
way from weekend announcer to play by play announcer to sports and news director. Jim is one of the cornerstones of the operation.

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Phil Jarnagin:

Phil spent the better part of 30 years in the TV business. Phil was the rep that handled the Merle FM account for the local CBS TV station. After a few years we finally brought him to the good side and he has been with us here at Merle FM since Feb 2010

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Walter Stair:

Walter Stair is one of our on Air hosts. Walt has been in radio since 1973. He has been on air as a sports announcer, host of Trading Time, as well as promoting clients' businesses through creative advertising campaigns. He is married to Rhonda with one
son, Adam.

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Will Housley:

Will handles the web site for the stations, handles on air shifts, and most everything else we ask him to. Oh, and he's a full time student at Tennessee Tech.

Kelly Harris:

Kelly Harris, Traffic and Billing. Needless to say, these are two areas that must be
handled correctly. When you get your bill, you can rest assured a great deal of attention went into making sure it is correct. Kelly is the wife of Jim, and she understands the importance of making sure clients are happy.

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Garry Walden:

Garry Walden, he has been in sales since 1973 and with our family since 1997. He knows how to make your advertising dollar go as far as possible.

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Jimmy Farmer:

Jimmy Farmer has been involved in advertising for more than 5 decades. He has owned and operated his own newspaper, and knows the importance of taking care of customers. Jimmy joined our family in 1998.

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Big D and Bubba:

Big D started in radio when he was 14 years old at a 1000-watt Christian radio station in
Cookeville, Tenn. His first country radio experience was when he was 19 in Billings,
Montana, where he fell in love with the country lifestyle. He is also an Instrument Rated Private Airplane Pilot.

Bubba was 14 years old when he became a disc jockey at the local radio station.
Bubba went on to use radio to travel the world and worked at stations in places such as Guam and Tokyo and, just like Big D...he too is also a Private Airplane Pilot.

"We know how crazy life can be....and we want to be your goofy, chubby, best radiofriend refuge from the harsh reality of being pulled 100 different directions by your
spouse, kids, boss, coworkers, etc."

Big D and Bubba came to the Merle family in 2007.