Greg Allen and Mike Reeves are the best duo in our area, HANDS DOWN! I would venture to say that I'd put them up against anyone in Southeast MO, if not the entire state!
KTJJ has one of the most powerful signals in the state. They do a lot of local sports. But the guys at KFMO, a small local AM station 1240, are the hardest working group in the high school sports business. I can't tell you how many games to do a year but during basketball season they'll do 3-4 games every week and nearly all of the local tournaments. They cover almost every sport and give even the Monday night small school girls game between teams with losing records the same effort and enthusiasm they do the finals of the Christmas and conference tourneys. They'll easily go over 100 games it could be way over that. They're very active on Twitter with up to the minute updates and have a dynamic web page that covers all the local schools. Greg Allen is the driving force behind it all and doesn't receive the accolades he should for how much coverage and promotion they do for high school sports in the area. The only negative is the station is low power and has a small coverage area. I sometimes wish they were on their FM sister station, B104, so I could pick them up further from home. But that would cut into the Cards and Blues games of which that station carries nearly every one.
I just wish we had ANY station in the semo area that would cover half as many games/teams as KFMO, KJEFF and KTJJ do. We're lucky to have a game on the radio around here at all. Doniphan carries their hometown boys and girls when they don't conflict, PB has a station that only carries PB boys games and it's not on a station that gets out much either. I think they cover Twin Rivers boys games some too The only other sport they cover home and away is PB football. We have one that carries all the 3R men's games, and the women when they play the same night and same place, that gets out about 50 miles on a good night. Guess the folks up that way are more willing to buy ad time for the games to be on the air.
They been doing the entire opening round of the Christmas tournament for awhile. I'm not sure how Greg's voice holds up that week. They also do VB, baseball, softball I think, and of course football. Not sure about more but wouldn't be surprised. Those guys are never home on weeknights. We know they're not getting rich doing it. They just love what they do and we reap the benefits.
They put in some long days and nights during the PH Christmas Tourney and MAAA conference tourney for sure. I read they're doing wresting now, that would be a tough thing to call and you better have some knowledge of the sport if you're gonna do it.
I am a friend of Greg Allen and Mike Reeves through my coaching days and going to college with Mike. I am also one who believes they do an outstanding job.
I sincerely doubt you were ever that bad or you would never have accomplished 30+ years in the business.
Ha! I like Uncle Billy Bobs and some do make me chuckle but most make me cringe.
