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 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. -
The Ada County Coroner’s Office is home to the only forensic pathologists in the state. -
The office expects its pathology team to be fully staffed again by this summer, but running short for about a year has caused reporting delays and been "horrendously expensive." -
Boise Mayor Lauren McLean says cities across Idaho are still evaluating what programs are affected and what could happen next. -
It’s called ‘A Case For the Existence of God’ but religion is a bystander in BCT’s latest productionProducing Artistic Director Benjamin Burdick and actor Ian Duff join Boise State Public Radio's Morning Edition to talk about the latest show at Boise Contemporary Theater. -
Up to 4% raises would cost the county $6.2 million, but the county has only identified where about half that funding could come from. -
Commissioners unanimously approved the emergency closure during a special meeting Friday, only about an hour after ACHD Staff received the inspection report. -
Event organizers will be required to apply for a specific permit as part of a one-year pilot for liquor sales in parks.
