KHOI Celebrates Birth Saturday

KHOI will officially celebrate Saturday, its first year on the air with cake, music and more.

The community radio station will hold a party at the radio station starting at 5 p.m. and move over to Cafe Diem at 7 p.m.

KHOI began broadcasting from the Pantorium Aug. 17, 2012. See the full details of the celebration below:

The Sept. 7 celebrations will begin at 5 P.M. at KHOI's headquarters at 410 Douglas Ave. (the Ames Pantorium building). Refreshments will be served, including a birthday cake provided by KHOI and HyVee. Myra Henderson, from Boone, will give a live musical performance, along with surprise guests.

Celebrations will continue from 7 to 9 p.m. at Cafe Diem at 229 Main St. in Ames. This includes a live performance by Tom and Doug, along with musicians Joe Bezek, Will Stone, Knitmaster SSK, Dot-Com Girl, and others. Tom and Doug are the stars of “The Tom and Doug Show,” a music and comedy program that airs weekly on KHOI at 11:30 on Saturday mornings and also is syndicated nationally. 

They describe themselves as the “the second best jazz-rock-ragtime-blues-comedy-rap-polka bands among New Jersey/Iowa duos.” Thomas Florek is from Princeton, New Jersey, and Doug Gentile is an Ames resident and professor of psychology at Iowa State University.

“We certainly want to spread the fun and excitement about what has been accomplished so far,” KHOI station manager Ursula Ruedenberg said in a prepared statement, “and we want to thank everyone who has made this first year possible. KHOI belongs to the Central Iowa community.”

KHOI 89.1 FM is a non-commercial, community-based radio station serving Central Iowa.