This all got started because Mark and Dewayne were looking for a permanent home for Chariton High School football rebroadcasts and "YAMBO" is Mark's touchdown and three-point call. Over about five years, it gradually expanded to include Faith Baptist Bible College (Ankeny, IA) men's and women's basketball, interviews with Missouri Valley Conference players, NBA D-League players, and a bunch of other stuff.
Our listening audience spanned the country and the globe. We heard from extended family members of players (both Faith and CHS), families of players from opposing teams, former Chariton residents, Faith Alumni near and far, and men and women serving in the armed forces overseas who enjoy downloading and listening to the games, highlights and re-broadcasts.
This blog is mostly the home for YamboClassics. Mark posts occasional interviews and Dewayne spends most of the winter reffing high school basketball, so we don't get to it much... however...
Last fall, Mark and Dewayne (and, occasionally, Brian) were the voices for Chariton Charger Football on KIIC. Live on the internet on KIIC.2 and rebroadcast on Saturday mornings.
Who are these guys anyway??
Mark Felderman
Mark is a teacher at Chariton High School. He has been recognized as C-SPAN National Champion Teacher in 1999, Rosemary Rumley Award Winner - for teaching through humor - in 2001, and The Iowa National Guard's Civilian Supporter of the Year. Mark teaches Economics, American Government, Geography and Sociology at Chariton High School and at Indian Hills Community College. He is a active member of Grace Baptist Church in Chariton (Iowa), of the Professional Educators of Iowa, and Iowa Broadcasters Association. Before KELR was sold in 2009, he also served as the KELR Sports Director and the voice of the Chariton Chargers. He has been married for more than twenty-five years to the former Rebecca Thompson, Rebecca and Mark have four children.Mark is no stranger to athletics. WAYYYY back at Bellevue (Iowa) High School, Mark played basketball, baseball, track, and cross country. He has coached junior college football as (at different times) the special teams coach, quarterback coach and running backs coach at Iowa Lakes Community College in Estherville, Iowa. Mark's high school coaching credentials include baseball (he was the first coach of the Iowa Mennonite School, and the last coach of the Urbana-Shellsburg Running Rebels) at IMS, Cozad, Nebraska, Urbana and Shellsburg, Emmetsburg and Russell. He coached high school football and track at Mission High School in Mission, Texas. He coached basketball at City High in Iowa City, at Shellsburg and at Emmetsburg.
Mark is currently the boys tennis coach at Chariton High School in Chariton, Iowa. In addition to playing, coaching, and announcing athletics, Mark was a certified official in basketball and football.
Dewayne Johnson
Dewayne lives and works in Des Moines and enjoys broadcasting sports as a hobby. He and Mark are long-time friends. Dewayne spent more than five years as Executive Director of the Iowa Recycling Association and currently serves as Professional Development Director for the Soil & Water Conservation Society. He and his wife Amy have one son, Lucas.
Dewayne did his "Theory of Basketball" work with Lisa Bluder back when she was the women's basketball coach at Drake University, though recently his coaching duties have been relegated to "dad duty"... for soccer. Additionally, Dewayne is a certified basketball official and works varsity games outside the CIML around central Iowa and junior varsity games in the Des Moines area. At Iowa Falls High School, he lettered in cross country and tennis and was a member of the basketball and baseball teams.
Brian E. Storm
Brian often joined Mark and Dewayne in the Football Pressbox and Mark in the booth for Chariton Boys Basketball on KELR and YamboRadio. Brian works for American Family Insurance as a Property Claim Adjuster. He graduated from Morman Trail High School and Central College. Brian is very active in many organizations around Lucas County including Little Baseball, Babe Ruth Baseball, Junior Basketball, Little Charger Football, Chariton Traveling teams, Rec League Basketball, and he is a certified high school coach who volunteers with Charger Boys Basketball Program.
Additionally, Brian has served on various boards around Southern Iowa, including the Lucas County Cattlemen and the Farm Bureau Board. Brian, his wife, Deb and sons, Dalton, Hunter and Quintin are members of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Chariton.
Music Credit
Music for YamboRadio's broadcasts, podcasts, and Toddcasts is royalty-free and is available at http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/faq.html Specifically, the Yambo intro is "Disco Sting" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) and the music you generally hear before a broadcast (while we're waiting to go live) is either "Matt's Blues" or "Plain Loafer" or "Vegas Glitz" all by Kevin MacLeod (imcomptech.com)
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