Mike Osborne
News DirectorMike Osborne is the News Director for WMOT and can be heard on-air daily.
Mike has worked in media for most of the last 40 years, beginning with radio at the age of 14. His first broadcast experience was reading the news for High School radio station WRCJ-FM in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Two years later Mike landed his first professional gig, doing graveyard shifts at WKFI-AM, a small-town station in Central Ohio. After graduating from High School, Mike quickly moved up to become the station’s Program Manager at just 20 years of age.
For more than two decades, Mike worked for international radio station KNLS. The station broadcasts shortwave radio programs from transmitters in Alaska down the Pacific Rim and into East Asia. Mike served as the host for the station’s English Language Service transmissions for nearly twenty years. His on-air work generated listener response from more than 100 nations and all the continents, including Antarctica.
During his years with KNLS, Mike also did freelance work for several media outlets, including Voice of America, Associated Press Radio, World Vision Radio, the USA Radio Network, and the radio division of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
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Tanger Outlets Nashville will be the third Tanger Center in Tennessee -
Six of Tennessee's 11 Congressional delegation members voted against $40 billion in additional aid.
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The ruling makes permanent a July 202decision that blocked enforcement of the law just days after it took effect.
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Lewis says he thought he might never be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Brown University calculated how many fewer deaths would have occurred if 85 percent or more of each state’s population had chosen to get vaccinated.
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Some 20 legislative proposals governing school curriculum were filed in 2022. More than half were approved by the Republican controlled General Assembly.
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The Partners in Care initiative is now operating in 3 of 8 police precincts.
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All three are up for album of the year, artist of the year and song of the year.
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Records obtained by AP suggest some were aware of complications nearly a day ahead of the scheduled execution of Oscar Smith.
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Hundreds of health care workers rallied outside the Nashville courthouse Friday during the sentencing of RaDonda Vaught.
