A well-known Penticton radio show host will move to Cranbrook. Dennis Walker will be the new morning show host for the new Clear Sky Broadcasting radio station to be launched in the East Kootenay City – while at the same time, his own creation, So Country Internet Radio is expanding!
The So Country team has decided to continue operations out of Penticton’s Adidas Sportsplex with all the regular co-hosts producing shows of their own. Walkers’ voice is not leaving – he will produce weekend and weekday features from his new home in Cranbrook.
In less than 3 years of operation, Walkers’ station has earned and accomplished a lot,
So Country Internet Radio was the Penticton and Wine Country Chamber of Commerce
Business Excellence Award winner for Community Support in 2013. This past year, So Country was the BCFGA – BC Fruit Growers media award winner for professional reporting of the tree fruit industry. Okanagan Life Magazine named Dennis Walker as one of the “2014 Best of” award winners. Walkers’ pride in what So Country provides for the community shows boldly; in the runnings for these awards he was the only radio personality on the list building his own station as an entrepreneur.
So Country also placed in the top 5 in the Premier’s Choice category at the 2014 BC small business awards. Another top honor included Dennis accepting a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for community service. Back in 2003, Dennis Walker was Penticton’s man of the year while at that time working for CIGV FM. He was given the honor of emceeing monthly at the Westbank Country Opry, a country music event that is in its 21st year of operations.
Still the essence of hometown radio, you can still listen online to SoCountry.ca