{"id":632,"date":"2012-02-09T15:29:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T20:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backbone.infoportfolio.com\/?p=527"},"modified":"2020-08-31T16:36:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T21:36:21","slug":"john-tesh-and-connie-sellecca-donate-to-kcod-college-internet-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/john-tesh-and-connie-sellecca-donate-to-kcod-college-internet-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"John Tesh and Connie Sellecca Donate to KCOD College Internet Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re proud to report that musician and radio personality John Tesh and his actress wife Connie Sellecca have generously donated broadcast hardware, Apple iMac computers and Backbone\u00a0software &amp; services to\u00a0KCOD, the student-run radio station of The College of the Desert, in Palm Springs, CA. \u00a0The gift grew out of a panel discussion at the\u00a0Dec. 3, 2011\u00a0<a title=\"Intercollegiate Broadcasting System\" href=\"http:\/\/ibsradio.org\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intercollegiate Broadcasting System<\/a>\u00a0(IBS) Conference in Los Angeles where Mr. Tesh was a panelist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tesh.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1315\" alt=\"Tesh Sellecca\" src=\"http:\/\/backbonenetworksradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Tesh-Sellecca-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Tesh-Sellecca-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Tesh-Sellecca.jpg 373w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>With this gift, KCOD, launched in the Spring of 2011, is the newest member station in the IBS Student Radio Network by Backbone (IBS-SRN). \u00a0The school notes that the station &#8220;has generated tremendous interest from students, broadcast professionals, potential sponsors, local politicians and the surrounding community.&#8221; \u00a0See more on the\u00a0KCOD blog.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Listen to KCOD\" href=\"http:\/\/kcod.backbonebroadcast.com\/kcod\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Listen to KCOD<\/a>\u00a0online.<\/p>\n<p>From Wikipedia:<br \/>\n<a title=\"John Tesh\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Tesh\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Tesh<\/a>\u00a0is an\u00a0American\u00a0pianist\u00a0and\u00a0composer\u00a0of pop music, as well as a\u00a0radio host\u00a0and\u00a0television presenter. His 10-year-old &#8216;<a title=\"Intelligence for Your Life Radio Show\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tesh.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intelligence for Your Life Radio Show<\/a>&#8216; reaches 14.2 Million listeners\/week, and is syndicated by Teshmedia on 400 stations in US, Canada, and the UK. Tesh has won six music Emmys, has four gold albums, two Grammy nominations, and an Associated Press award for investigative journalism. Tesh has sold over eight million records. His live concerts have raised more than $20 million for PBS. His NBC Basketball Theme has been hailed as one of the top three sports themes of all time. He is also known as the longtime co-host of the television program\u00a0<em>Entertainment Tonight<\/em>. He has previously worked as a\u00a0sportscaster\u00a0for the\u00a0Olympic Games, a\u00a0news anchor\u00a0and a\u00a0reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re proud to report that musician and radio personality John Tesh and his actress wife Connie Sellecca have generously donated broadcast hardware, Apple iMac computers and Backbone\u00a0software &amp; services to\u00a0KCOD, the student-run radio station of The College of the Desert, in Palm Springs, CA. \u00a0The gift grew out of a panel discussion at the\u00a0Dec. 3, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,82],"tags":[10,52,11,22,51,53,5,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159053,"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/159053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backbonebroadcast.com\/BB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}