Erric Totty has been named news director for KTLO, Classic Hits, and The Boot News.
Totty returned to KTLO News earlier this year after having been a member of the station’s news department from 2011 until 2013.
KTLO General Manager Bob Knight says, “We are confident Erric is the right choice to continue the legacy of our news department established by long-time director Jim Bodenhamer, who answered the call for 41 years, and was succeeded by Richard Hester, who served us and the community well for an additional three years as news director.”
Totty is a native of Oklahoma. He attended Pikes Peak Community College where he studied radio and television broadcasting. He later attended the University of Colorado Boulder, where he completed his B.A. in Film Studies and was inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society.
Totty moved to the Mountain Home area in 2005 to be closer to his family and to enjoy his love of the outdoors.
Since moving to the Twin Lakes Area, Totty served the community as an AmeriCorps representative from 2009 until 2012. In 2009, he received the state’s highest award for his service.
Totty has served as Baxter County Justice of the Peace for District 3. Other accolades include recipient of the Volunteer Coordinator of the Year award and nomination for First Security Bank’s “Your Local Hero” award in 2013.
Totty has volunteered for numerous Twin Lakes’ organizations and currently volunteers for Hospice of the Ozarks.
He and his wife, Lori, reside in Midway near Bull Shoals Lake. They have two sons and one daughter.
Since the first broadcast signal went out in May of 1953, the stations of KTLO, Classic Hits and the Boot have grown to average more than 30,000 listeners each week. Launched in 2000, KTLO.com sees more than 235,000 page views each week and has been named the best radio station website in the state of Arkansas by the Associated Press.
KTLO, Classic Hits and the Boot has been recognized by the National Association of Broadcasters five times as one of the top 5 Small Market Radio Stations of the Year in the country, consistent winner of Arkansas AP Broadcasters News awards and awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and was the recipient of the Silver Mike Award for leadership in the broadcast industry.
Locally owned and operated by Bob and Sue Knight and Danny and Velma Ward, the last three letters of the stations call letters stand for Twin Lakes of the Ozarks.
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