Tom Patton
89.9 FM Station Manager and Program Director
Tom Patton is Station Manager and Program Director for 89.9 FM, having come to Jacksonville in 2000 from Atlanta. He hosts Week in Review and the quarterly First Coast Forum, two series that air on both 89.9 FM and WJCT-TV.
Tom graduated from Indiana University in 1980 with a degree in Telecommunications, and has worked at radio stations from Indiana to California and Ohio. For five years, he served as producer and host of C-SPAN’s Weekly Radio Journal, a syndicated program that aired on as many as 70 public radio stations around the country. He was also a feature producer and air talent at Voice of America in Washington, D.C. Tom now lives in Neptune Beach with his wife, Andie. He’s an avid SCUBA diver, enjoys fishing on the Intracoastal Waterway and offshore, and loves to travel to places with clear, warm water, palm trees, sand, and a convenient dive shop.
Scott Kim
News Director
Scott Kim joined 89.9 FM WJCT in 2006, bringing 15 years of public radio experience. He began his career at Hawaii Public Radio in Honolulu, where he served as news director, host, and reporter. A Hawaiian native, he left to experience life on the mainland and joined WMFE, the NPR affiliate in Orlando, as reporter and Morning Edition host.
Scott is a graduate of the University of Hawaii with a degree in Broadcast Journalism. In his spare time, Scott likes to meditate, watch movies, and indulge his passion for golf.
Kevin Meerschaert
Senior Staff Reporter
Senior Staff Reporter Kevin Meerschaert joined WJCT in February 2001. He previously worked at public radio stations in Salisbury, Maryland; Evansville, Indiana; and Ypsilanti, Michigan.
Kevin is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University with a degree in Political Science and Communications. He has hosted 89.9’s newsmagazine In Context since it went on the air in October 2005. Kevin has received several Florida Associated Press awards for his reporting at 89.9, and was similarly honored at his previous stations. If you don’t catch him at a City Council meeting or covering a story around town, you can sometimes spot him walking on the beach or enjoying an old movie or TV Show.
Karen Feagins
Morning Edition Host/Reporter
A public radio fan since childhood, Karen Feagins finds it very fitting that she eventually ended up working in the medium. She joined WJCT in June 2005 after several years as a television reporter.
Karen is a native of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, who studied broadcast journalism at the University of Missouri. She began her news career at KOMU-TV and KBIA-FM in Columbia, Missouri. From there, it was on to WZVN in Ft. Myers and, in 2002, to Jacksonville to work for WJXT-Channel 4. In her free time, Karen enjoys reading, kayaking or catching new releases at the movie theater. She is a proud resident of the Murray Hill neighborhood, where she lives with her husband, Tim, daughter Sophia and their beagle-mix, Truman.
Alyssa Zamora
Reporter/Producer
With a passion for news and the interesting people behind the stories, Alyssa Zamora has found her niche in public radio. She joined the 89.9 FM WJCT news team in April of 2007.
Alyssa is a South Florida native with a degree in telecommunications from the University of Florida. She began her broadcasting career at WUFT-TV and WUFT-FM in Gainesville as a television and radio reporter, producer and Morning Edition host. Following her graduation, she worked as news director at WKGC-FM, the NPR affiliate in Panama City. Alyssa has received a Florida AP Award for individual achievement in the small market radio division. In her spare time, she enjoys writing, playing the piano, discovering new music, and supporting her Florida Gators.
David Luckin
Electro Lounge Producer/Host
David Luckin joined WJCT as development producer in 2000, bringing 19 years’ experience as a Jacksonville news photographer and a lifelong passion for music. The New York native hosted his first local music program at Gainesville’s NPR affiliate while earning his degree at the University of Florida.
Shortly after joining WJCT, his drive to deejay resurfaced, and he conceived and developed NightFlight, a weekly, one-hour program that showcased the laid-back sounds of “downtempo” and “chillout.” Luckin’s program immediately developed an audience of loyal listeners. Within three years, he was on the air two hours a night, five nights a week with Electro Lounge, a popular program of “music without walls” that attracts listeners round the world. Married with two children, Luckin also enjoys films, vintage cars, and the beach.
Bob Bednar
This is Jazz Producer/Host
Bob Bednar has been loving and listening to jazz his entire life, both as performer and as radio host. Bednar hosted his first jazz program at Philadelphia’s WRTI while a journalism and broadcast major at Temple University, and served as a first call drummer in Philadelphia during the late 1950s and early ‘60s. He joined Du Pont in 1963, producing and directing more than 80 industrial shows and films worldwide as special events coordinator for the company’s Textile Division, but his passion for jazz never waned.
Bednar began hosting This Is Jazz in 1993, after he and his wife retired to Florida. During his career, Bednar has had the opportunity to play with jazz greats Zoot Sims, Charlie Ventura, Stephane Grappelli, and more. Today, Bednar educates and entertains a new generation of jazz lovers on his popular radio program, and continues to pursue his other passion, tennis.
