Troy Oppie
Host/ReporterExpertise: radio hosting, reporting, All Things Considered, jazz music
Education: Pacific Lutheran University
Highlights
- I started at BSPR as a volunteer
- I embrace goofy ideas, like broadcasting live from a hammock by the Boise River
- Public Radio and I go back to middle school – but not as a 'back seat listener'
Experience
I was excited for the chance to volunteer as a local music host back in 2014 after I left local TV (and thus was allowed to appear on-air somewhere else). I hosted "Jazz Conversations" for many years before slowly working into rotation with the news team and joining full-time just as the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
I enjoy stretching the limits of radio when I can, like trying remote broadcasts from places around Idaho, and introducing listeners to the different characters who make our communities unique. My decade-long career in television included stints in live sports production and I can still occasionally be found behind a camera or in a TV truck, or even calling play-by-play for high school sports.
I also spent nearly six years working in personal finance, which I enjoyed but found highly stressful.
My first exposure to public radio was listening to jazz as a middle schooler on KPLU-FM (now KNKX) in Tacoma-Seattle. Our jazz band even volunteered to answer phones during the station's pledge drives (which used to be 12-14 days long!). Eventually I worked at that station while attending college and it drove my appreciation for public radio – and the people of public radio – to new heights.
Email: Drop me a note or story tip at troyoppie@boisestate.edu
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Boise’s zone (7a) didn’t change this time compared to the USDA’s last map in 2012, but a lot of Idaho did. The Treasure Valley west of Caldwell, and Kuna east to Mountain Home, for example, shifted up one five-degree zone. Hailey shifted two zones warmer. -
Deputy Tobin Bolter, a seven-year law enforcement veteran, had been with the county since January. The suspect in the shooting was found later Saturday evening and died after being shot by Boise Police as they attempted to apprehend him. -
The company planning to resurrect gold and antimony mining in Valley County’s historic Stibnite district could get most of its operation start-up costs covered by financing from the government-backed Export-Import Bank (EXIM). -
Starting a food truck or vending at a local public market in Boise just got simpler. -
Police are investigating reported harassment of the University of Utah women's basketball team while staying in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, for the NCAA tournament in nearby Spokane, Wash. -
Police in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho are investigating a racist harassment incident of visiting college basketball teams last Thursday, March 21. -
For the first time since at least 1990, a democratic candidate will be on the ballot in at least one race in each of Idaho’s 35 legislative districts. -
Ada County Commissioners are considering spending $13.3 million to renovate the kitchen at the Ada County jail, and begin preparations on the land next to the jail for future large-scale expansion. -
Ada County officials and its victim services partners cut the ribbon on a rededication of the Ada County Victim Services Center. The ceremony was, in part, an attempt to turn the page following a very public recent breakup with The Faces of Hope Foundation. -
The City of Boise says 250 parking ticket notices were issued this month by mistake.
