Jerrod Knight
General ManagerJerrod Knight (TAMUC '05) joined 88.9 KETR in December 2008 as Director of Programming and was named General Manager in 2010.
Knight oversees station programming, news and sports operations, individual and corporate development efforts, business and budget planning and execution, and technical operations. In addition to being the station's webmaster, he is also a regular on-air and online news and opinion contributor, and serves as executive producer of the station's various local program offerings.
Knight also manages the relationships between KETR and external organizations like NPR, American Public Media, the FCC, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, among others.
Before 88.9 KETR, Knight's broadcast career included Susquehanna-Pfaltzgraff (now Cumulus,) Omni Communications, Inc., and LKCM Radio Group.
Knight served seven terms as the Non-commercial Director on the Board of Directors of the Texas Association of Broadcasters, elected by his noncommercial broadcast peers in Texas. A member of the Commerce Rotary Club from 2010 until late 2018, Knight was named Rotarian of the Year in 2012 and served as club president for the 2015-2016 Rotary year. He sat on the university's 2020 Strategic Planning Task Force (2014-2015) and later served on the A&M-Commerce Strategic Plan Assessment Committee until 2019. Knight has also previously led and contributed to teams in radio broadcasting that have won numerous awards in newscasting, production, and web design from the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters and the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters, and an NAB Marconi Award for Country Station of the Year (KPLX, 2003.)
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Effective immediately, operation of the joint Community Recycle Center located on the Texas A&M University-Commerce campus has ceased. -
The station's terrestrial broadcast is scheduled to be interrupted on Thursday, May 11.
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On April 16, the second annual Texas Broadcast News Awards recognized the Texas television and radio broadcast stations that produced the top news content in 2022.
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Recently, KETR's Matt Meinke was recognized by the Staff Council at Texas A&M University-Commerce for 25 years of dedicated service to the institution, and in each of those years he's been part of 88.9 KETR's team. Also recognized for two decades of service this year was KETR's Operations Manager Kevin Jefferies.
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88.9 KETR's Summer 2022 One-Day Pledge Drive happens all day Thursday, June 2, 2022.
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On the afternoon of January 6, 2022, communications from Hunt Regional Healthcare to area media specific to the omicron variant surge of COVID-19 restarted.
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88.9 KETR is participating in #GivingTuesday on November 30, 2021, and we're asking for support from our listeners, readers, followers, and donors.
