Radio is his milieu

Finding listeners and opening the airwaves from the controls at home

JEFFERSON — When he was in the eighth grade, Kevin Pattky was making his own home made radio stations, today he is the vice president of programming at a growing Internet radio network heard around the world.

Even though 20-year-old Pattky is only a few years removed from his days at Jefferson High School, he already has years of experience in radio production. He and a friend started INCO in 2011, an Internet radio network with four stations. Pattky then approached Radio Domination Streaming Network (RDSN) in 2011 with the prospect of affiliating the networks, which would combine RDSN's multiple rock genre based stations with INCO's two top-40 hits stations, oldies and talk.

Ambitious and focused
"I wanted to do it to make more money and advance my radio career, but I also wanted to give our stations a greater marketing potential and join a great group of networks," said Pattky.

"It's going to take a long time. You can't just make a station and get famous overnight but I've always loved programming and making radio."

Now he is the VP of network operations, directing all programming at Domination Radio, where users can listen to its nine stations 24 hours a day, online, on iTunes or with the TuneIn application. RDSN's stations combine for 2.5 million listener hours a year.

Pattky completely produces the networks, which are actually headquartered in Seattle, from his studio in his home in Jefferson. He also handles marketing and acquiring sponsors to invest in the network. He hopes pop up, audio and visual advertising on the various stations and on the site will eventually generate most of the revenue to run RDSN, but for now it is mainly paid for by CEO Jayden Prince, the original founder of the network. This is how it will be able to keep its stations free to the public, Pattky explained.

Getting a degree
Furthering his ambition in all aspects of radio, Pattky attended the Connecticut School of Broadcasting, where he got hands-on experience in his field.

"I learned important on-air and programming skills. And for the final exam, I had to produce an entire radio show, which was graded by on-air radio personality Bartel 103.5 of KTU," said Pattky.

Big dreams
Now, three years into his professional radio career, he is vice president of a growing network and recently became the program director of two stations at another Internet radio network, GotRadio. But Pattky keeps aiming higher.

"My dream job would be to become head of programming at a major network — 100.3, Z-100 in New York was always the station I patterned my career after and Sharon Dastur, the programming director there, has always been an inspiration in me."

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