{"id":673693,"date":"2026-05-30T07:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/673693\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T07:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:12:16","slug":"mark-reido-reid-retires-from-kqky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/673693\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark \u2018Reido\u2019 Reid Retires From KQKY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/markreid-192x200-jpeg.webp\" alt=\"Mark Reido Reid Hits 106 KQKY Kearney\" width=\"192\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-354965\"  \/>Usher Media Group CHR \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kqky.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hits 106<\/a>\u201d KQKY Kearney NE Operations Manager and morning co-host\/afternoon host Mark \u2018Reido\u2019 Reid retired today ending a 41 year run with the station.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Perth, Australia, Reid has spent his entire career in the Grand Island\/Hastings\/Kearney market starting in 1985 as a board op at 1340 KGFW. He would then move over to their sister station KQKY spending time in every daypart including 29 years in middays as well as time as MD and PD. He also spent 20 years as a weekend weathercaster for KHGI-TV in the market. <\/p>\n<p>New cluster owner Alan Usher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralnebraskatoday.com\/2026\/05\/29\/mark-reid-reido-on-the-radio-to-retire-after-41-years-of-radio-service-in-central-nebraska\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told CentralNebraskaNews.com<\/a>, \u201cMark is a household name in all Central Nebraska. His dedication to listeners and viewers throughout central Nebraska is unmatched. His true passion for helping people everyday shines through in every broadcast that he\u2019s done in the last 41 years. I\u2019m proud to have known and been able to get to know such a special individual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New cluster Operations Manager Tyler Cavalli, who joined the company after previously serving as OM for Nebraska Rural Radio Association\u2019s cluster in the market said, \u201cMark has been a staple in central Nebraska and a voice that generations of listeners have become accustomed to. It\u2019s rare for anyone to work in one spot for 41 years. That says a lot about Mark, the kind of person he is, and the dedication he\u2019s poured out for the stations. There won\u2019t be another Mark and he\u2019ll be missed on the airwaves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Usher Media Group CHR \u201cHits 106\u201d KQKY Kearney NE Operations Manager and morning co-host\/afternoon host Mark \u2018Reido\u2019 Reid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-673693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}