KNLS Staff

Take a moment to meet just a few of the people behind the voices you hear on station KNLS. On this page you can meet the on-air staff, along with a few other important folks. Note that some of our staff and stringers have email addresses and even personal or corporate web pages you may wish to investigate.

Charles Caudill is President of World Christian Broadcasting. WCBC is the non-profit Christian ministry that owns and operates station KNLS. Charles joined the ministry in 1988. His wife, Kathy, also works for WCBC. His son, Bill, is a medical doctor specializing in emergency medicine. His daughter, Kelly, is in medical administration.

Gayle Crowe is Vice President / Programming for World Christian Broadcasting. A Colorado native, he and his wife, Lisa, moved to Tennessee in 2007 after 40 years of ministering to churches in Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, and Indiana. Their two children and spouses, who live in California and Wisconsin, each have one daughter. For 27 years, Gayle was on the Board of Directors of World Christian Broadcasting, most of that time working as liaison between the board and the programming staff.

Rob Scobey is KNLS Senior Producer of English Language Programming. He and Lucy Grant host the KNLS English Hour each day. Rob is also producer of the new KNLS series Refiner's Fire. He has a B.A. in Political Science and Mass Communications from Lipscomb University, Nashville, and he did his graduate work at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He began his career in radio and television in Knoxville, serving two different stations there as announcer, producer, reporter, assignment editor, and morning anchor. He has worked in video production and editing. His print editing experience includes two best-selling books. He has served as a media representative, including liaisons with ABC, CNN, PBS, and BBC. Rob and his wife Debra have a son, Robert, two daughters, Angela and Andrea, and a grandson, Westley, and granddaughter, Emmalee.

Lucy Grant is the host of the KNLS English Hour, along with Senior Producer Rob Scobey. Her friendly voice is the one you hear at the beginning and throughout the English Hour. She is a radio veteran, having worked for radio stations in a number of American states.

Real Peloquin is a radio veteran, having worked at stations in Texas, New Mexico, California, and Alaska. Real worked at station KNLS for several years, but now serves as the English Service Studio Technician at the Tennessee Operations Center.

Paul Ladd is the new Director of Follow-up for KNLS. Paul keeps an EYE on sports for KNLS. He is also the voice you hear on KNLS Mailbag. He may have even read your letter on the air. Paul is an award-winning writer and broadcaster who has worked in both print and electronic media for a number of years, including work as a radio and television news anchor. Paul has also worked with a national radio network as a traffic reporter, news anchor and state correspondent.

For twenty-one years Mike Osborne served station KNLS in various capacities; English Service Host, Production Manager, and most recently as English Service Senior Producer. In the fall of 2004 Mike left station KNLS to join the global charity Mercy Ships as Communications Manager aboard the hospital ship Africa Mercy. However, Mike continues to contribute to station KNLS through the series Author's Journal. You can email Mike in care of station KNLS.

Dick Brackett is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1955 to attend David Lipscomb College. After graduation, Dick worked for Nashville’s WSM television for eleven years, where he served as a studio cameraman, Producer/Director, newsman and clown. For six years, he was Bozo the Clown at WSM-TV, hosting the top-rated show in Nashville. Leaving WSM in 1970, Dick worked for 20 years for Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation. He worked closely with Colonel Sanders for six of those years, and retired in 1990. Dick is married to the former Joyce Dean Brown, and they have two children, Anita and Phillip. They also have three grandchildren, Jonathan, Donovan and Becka. Dick claims that God has kept him alive for all these years for a purpose. He thinks he has finally figured out what it is...working for World Christian Broadcasting and station KNLS.

Marcy Bryan's name and voice will be familiar to most of our old friends. Marcy was first heard on KNLS in the late 1980's doing a music show called All That Jazz!. . Marcy takes time out of her busy schedule to keep an EYE on entertainment, business, and religion for KNLS. She also voices our daily English language tutorials.

Doug Poling is a veteran journalist and a former national correspondent for CBS radio network news. Doug is now providing KNLS listeners with a Christian perspective on world events through a series of commentaries titled Today's News and the Good News .

Mary Westheimer keeps an EYE on the world wide web for KNLS. Mary is the former president of BookZone.com . Mary now works for One-off Creations. Would you like to review the web sites Mary has recommended recently? Mary lives and works in one of the most beautiful cities in America, Phoenix, Arizona.

Fred Osterman is President of Universal Radio Inc. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio and editor of the DX website DXING.COM. He is also the author of Shortwave Receivers Past And Present, most comprehensive books ever written on shortwave receivers. Fred helps KNLS keep an eye on the DXing (distance listening) world.

Jim Cox is Editor and Chief of Midwest Book Review, one of the most widely respected book review journals in the publishing industry. Jim's reviews are used by thousands of libraries across the U.S. to choose their latest acquisitions. Jim helps KNLS listeners keep an EYE on what is at the top of America's reading list.

Lloyd DeVries helps KNLS keep an eye on the philatelic world. Lloyd has been a professional broadcaster for more than 25 years, with staff positions at CBS, National Public Radio and NBC. He is now a copy editor for CBSNews.com. As a freelancer, his assignments have ranged from the World Series to the White House. He is an officer of several stamp collecting organizations, and writes regularly for three publications, as well as managing the popular Virtual Stamp Club (www.virtualstampclub.com). Married with two teen-age sons, he plays trombone and euphonium in several musical organizations in northern New Jersey.

Carl Mann has been sharing his DXing (distance listening) expertise with KNLS listeners for more than a decade. Through his on-air comments, books, tapes, and internet offerings, Carl has introduced thousands of shortwave listeners to the DXing hobby. From this page you can review some of the materials that Carl has created over the years and order his various books and tapes. Carl is a veteran journalist and can be seen in this in the control room of the Omaha, Nebraska, television station where he works as the news department's assignment editor.

You hear Andy Baker each Thursday on the Prayer Lession and Prayer. Andy Baker came to station KNLS after 30 years of fulltime Christian ministry. Andy received his bachelors degree from Freed-Hardeman College and David Lipscomb College. He then served as senior evangelist for churches in Danville, Louisville, Stanford and Tompkinsville, Kentucky. During the last 15 years of his life, he has served as Executive Director for two hospice programs in Kentucky and Tennessee. His wife of 31 years is Susan Williams Baker and they have a son Matthew and a daughter Andrea. Andy led the KNLS "Double The Dream Campaign" that provided the second antenna and transmitter to the KNLS facility.

Dermot Cole, a columnist for the Fairbanks, Alaska Daily News-Miner newspaper helps KNLS keep an eye on America's last frontier. Click here to jump to the Daily News-Miner website to review Mr. Cole's latest column or for an update on the latest headlines from Alaska.

Professor Bill Humble has traveled to the Holy Land numerous times over the past 30 years. He has visited many of the ancient sites that provide evidence of the accuracy of the Bible. He shares his insights with us in the KNLS series, Bible Archaeology—Proofs from the Earth. His transcripts and Holy Land photos are available on this web site for you to enjoy.

As you know, most of the programs heard on station KNLS are produced at World Christian Broadcasting's Operations Center in Nashville, Tennessee. It isn't often that we manage to get all of the Op's Center staff together, except for when food is involved! During our 2001 staff Christmas party Ed Short got us all lined up for this group photo.