Changes are coming to Fresno’s KMJ news/talk radio station as Frances Echeverria announced on Friday that she’s retiring from radio in a final broadcast with KMJ.
Echeverria had been hosting the station’s “Afternoon Drive,” co-hosting the call-in talk show alongside Philip Teresi.
“The station has meant more for me personally that I can ever explain,” Echeverria said during the show’s final minutes (h/t Fresno Bee). “I want to live a life that does not include radio.”
Along with working in radio, Echeverria also works as a therapist and is a professor at Fresno State, so there’s still plenty on her plate to do as she exits radio.
“I didn’t want to do radio anymore,” Echeverria said in a post on the website Medium. “It wasn’t that it was bad. In fact, the chemistry with my partner was continually evolving into something better.
“I had good bosses. I felt like I was making a difference, whatever that means. Working there made me smarter. And yet I was done. Deep in my heart and down in my soul. Done.”
Eduardo Razo is the Assistant Content Editor for BNM, which includes writing daily news stories on the news media industry. He can be found on Twitter @eddierazo_ or you can reach him by email at eddie1991razo@gmail.com.
