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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Valley County wants to shrink and take back control of the McCall's impact area and will host a public hearing on the afternoon of July 7. -
A new state law passed in 2024 could significantly impact how homes, commercial buildings and roads develop around McCall. -
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.
