Former south county resident Mike Summers recently received the Sainte Television Group Employee of the Year award.
Summers is a master control operator for the company, which owns KCVU Fox 20 and KRVU MyTV NorCal 21 in Chico and KFBI My 48 in Medford.
A former resident of McCloud and Mount Shasta, Summers began his career in broadcasting at age 16 doing radio reports on events at Weed High School.
Now living in Durham, he describes his current job as “a board operator. I play taped programs, commercials, PSAs, etc., and make sure all of the on-air equipment is functioning properly... on FOX 20, I take feeds of shows overnight, take transmitter readings for all stations and identify every station at the top of the hour to comply with FCC regulations. It’s a daily process.”
A 2005 graduate of College of the Siskiyous, Summers works the graveyard shift at the station and says he doesn’t take his recent award lightly.
“I share this with God, my family, friends, my churches in Mt. Shasta and Chico and for sure my co-workers (all of them). I don’t know what the future holds, but I think this is a step in a positive direction.”
Doug Holroyd, general manager of Sainte Television Group, said Summers took on his current position after another employee left and “it was as if the other guy never left.”
He called Summers “an all-around good guy” who “looks out for the station’s best interests in a lot of different ways... he lives, breathes and eats this stuff; he’s the kind of guy you like to have around.”
Holroyd said Summers has “a relatively large position for a single person, not to mention what it does to your personal life... Mike has done an outstanding job without complaint.”
Criteria for the award, Holroyd said, includes being a full time employee in good standing (with no write-ups), going above and beyond the call of duty and catching the attention of numerous members of the management staff because of the excellence of your work.
Sainte Television Group owns several stations in Chico, Eureka and Medford. KRVU is seen on Northland Cable Television on channel 2 in Mount Shasta. They have a Medford station, KFBI My 48 out of Chico and four Spanish stations, none of which airs in Siskiyou County.
Summers said Rich Eisen, now of the NFL Network, helped him get an intern job at KRCR-TV in Redding when Eisen was the sports reporter there.
Summers’ career included radio work in the summer of 1996 at KMJC as board operator for San Francisco Giants games.
Two years later, he went to work at KWHO-FM 102.3 (now KCWH) and was on-air talent and program director from 1997 to 2001.
Before being let go at KWHO after an ownership change, Summers said he accepted a job at Northland Cable designing ads for cable channel 3, which also aired the high school and COS sports games produced by Action Video Entertainment, which was run by John Googins at the time.
He says he stays busy with his website, MikeSummers.org, and enjoys attending Chico Outlaws baseball games. He is working on plans to try and start a baseball team in the Medford area.
“I, in no way, make any bones about the fact that I miss living in Siskiyou County, especially Mt. Shasta and McCloud where I grew up,” Summers said in an e-mail interview. “It’s so hard to believe where this journey has taken me...”
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Former south county resident Mike Summers recently received the Sainte Television Group Employee of the Year award.
Summers is a master control operator for the company, which owns KCVU Fox 20 and KRVU MyTV NorCal 21 in Chico and KFBI My 48 in Medford.
A former resident of McCloud and Mount Shasta, Summers began his career in broadcasting at age 16 doing radio reports on events at Weed High School.
Now living in Durham, he describes his current job as “a board operator. I play taped programs, commercials, PSAs, etc., and make sure all of the on-air equipment is functioning properly... on FOX 20, I take feeds of shows overnight, take transmitter readings for all stations and identify every station at the top of the hour to comply with FCC regulations. It’s a daily process.”
A 2005 graduate of College of the Siskiyous, Summers works the graveyard shift at the station and says he doesn’t take his recent award lightly.
“I share this with God, my family, friends, my churches in Mt. Shasta and Chico and for sure my co-workers (all of them). I don’t know what the future holds, but I think this is a step in a positive direction.”
Doug Holroyd, general manager of Sainte Television Group, said Summers took on his current position after another employee left and “it was as if the other guy never left.”
He called Summers “an all-around good guy” who “looks out for the station’s best interests in a lot of different ways... he lives, breathes and eats this stuff; he’s the kind of guy you like to have around.”
Holroyd said Summers has “a relatively large position for a single person, not to mention what it does to your personal life... Mike has done an outstanding job without complaint.”
Criteria for the award, Holroyd said, includes being a full time employee in good standing (with no write-ups), going above and beyond the call of duty and catching the attention of numerous members of the management staff because of the excellence of your work.
Sainte Television Group owns several stations in Chico, Eureka and Medford. KRVU is seen on Northland Cable Television on channel 2 in Mount Shasta. They have a Medford station, KFBI My 48 out of Chico and four Spanish stations, none of which airs in Siskiyou County.
Summers said Rich Eisen, now of the NFL Network, helped him get an intern job at KRCR-TV in Redding when Eisen was the sports reporter there.
Summers’ career included radio work in the summer of 1996 at KMJC as board operator for San Francisco Giants games.
Two years later, he went to work at KWHO-FM 102.3 (now KCWH) and was on-air talent and program director from 1997 to 2001.
Before being let go at KWHO after an ownership change, Summers said he accepted a job at Northland Cable designing ads for cable channel 3, which also aired the high school and COS sports games produced by Action Video Entertainment, which was run by John Googins at the time.
He says he stays busy with his website, MikeSummers.org, and enjoys attending Chico Outlaws baseball games. He is working on plans to try and start a baseball team in the Medford area.
“I, in no way, make any bones about the fact that I miss living in Siskiyou County, especially Mt. Shasta and McCloud where I grew up,” Summers said in an e-mail interview. “It’s so hard to believe where this journey has taken me...”
