About YamboRadio.com
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. It has gradually expanded to include Faith basketball, interviews with Missouri Valley Conference players, NBA D-League players, and a bunch of other stuff. Who knows where we'll go next.
We've gotten feedback from extended family members of current players (both Faith and CHS), families of players from opposing teams, former Chariton residents and Faith Alumni scattered across the country, and local men and women serving in the armed forces overseas who enjoy downloading and listening to the games, highlights and re-broadcasts.
We'd love to hear from you.
Send us a message and let us know where you are and why you listen!
Who are these guys anyway??
Mark Felderman
Mark is both the KELR Sports Director and 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. He has been married for 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 JohnsonDewayne 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. He has coached at the Junior High level and was head coach of Lucas' 3-4 year old team two winters ago. He is a certified basketball official and works junior varsity games in the CIML and other games around central Iowa. At Iowa Falls High School, he lettered in cross country and tennis and was a member of the basketball and baseball teams.
Brian E. StormBrian joins Mark and Dewayne in the Football Pressbox this season and Mark in the booth for Chariton Boys Basketball this season on KELR and Yambo Radio. 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, he's 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)