Hello there! My name is Terry “Tdub” West, and I am proud to be the host of the Morning Mix on The Magic Valley’s Hot 100 FM.
Life has a funny way of working out, right?
I worked for Lee Family Broadcasting a little over five years ago. At the time, an opportunity presented itself to move back home to Colorado, so I took it and moved my wife and kids to Salida, Colorado. I’m a native snowflake. I was born in Steamboat Springs and graduated high school in Palisade, Colorado.
I spent five years working with a good group of radio people in the heart of the Rockies, weathered one of the largest wildfires in Colorado history, and endured a global pandemic.
And then I lost my wife, Natalie. She passed away April 25th, 2023, at the age of 45.
Natalie struggled with health issues for most of our fifteen years of marriage including daily complicated migraines, Autoimmune Encephalitis, Diabetes, COPD, and Cardiomyopathy among others. Ultimately, it wasn’t COVID or any of the myriad afflictions she suffered from, her heart that failed during a particularly bad bout of pneumonia.
My son Jack and I tried to pick ourselves up and carry on… but our lives were just disintegrating. In February of 2024, I resigned from my job in Colorado, we packed what we could in a moving truck and came home to Idaho. Both my family and Natalie’s family still live here, and we both needed that more than anything.
Fast forward to March of 2024 and I get a call from Broc asking if I had any interest in returning to Lee Family Broadcasting and taking over Hot 100 FM. After that, everything just fell into place, and I am incredibly grateful to everyone at Lee Family for welcoming me back.
Radio has been my passion for nearly 30 years. Remember those radio station tours you took in Boy Scouts when you were a kid? Yeah. That where it started. Walking into that station, meeting the talents, and seeing walls of reel to reels somehow infected me and my goal from that moment on was to be one of the familiar and friendly voices on the radio. I’ve held every job in a radio station from part-time scum, sales, DJ, News Director, Production Director, Managing Editor, Digital Guru, all the way to #1 rated Morning Show Host and Program Director.
I’m a Gen X refugee that fears the day my generation will rule the world. I’m currently stockpiling goods and supplies in Buhl, Idaho with my soon-to-be mad scientist son, Jack. My name is Terry “Tdub” West: I know the truth about the One Ring, how to gank a demon, The Doctor’s name, and the Death Star’s one weakness. I am a father, writer, broadcast professional, and voice over artist.
And I am very happy to be home and back where I belong.
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