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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The city wants to expand more stations to four-person engine staffing, but there's no money for growth in the upcoming year's budget. -
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are a threat to public health everywhere, and a threat to the fishing industry along the west coast. A new study shows the potential for predicting HABs in ocean water, but there are big hurdles before it could be used in a place like Idaho's freshwater ecosystems. -
It's Friday and time for our Reporter Roundtable when Idaho Matters catches you up on the past week's headlines. -
Bryan Kohberger, the man suspected of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022, appeared in court Thursday. -
Givens served two terms as a house representative in the 1980s. She was also the first native woman to run for a seat in the U.S. Congress -
Ada County officials will cut the ceremonial ribbon Tuesday, May 13 on a new natural gas treatment plant at the Ada County Landfill, but a small amount of the captured and cleaned Landfill Natural Gas (LNG) from the facility is already entering the commercial pipeline. -
The 13th annual Idaho Gives fundraising campaign began Monday, April 28 and runs through Thursday, May 1. -
In Idaho, 38,448 households used the program last fiscal year, according to the state Department of Health and Welfare, with $17.7 million provided to participants for heating and cooling bills. -
The private company behind efforts to capture and clean landfill emissions into natural gas at the Ada County Landfill says it’s weeks away from delivering fuel to Intermountain Gas customers. Boise State Public Radio first reported on the project in January, now a group of citizens is questioning the safety of that gas.
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The Ada County Coroner’s Office is home to the only forensic pathologists in the state.
