![Eugene Plummer checks his notes before getting back on the air as the morning DJ for KYAT-FM. He works the 5 to 11 am shift, and recently started the live remote broadcast of regional basketball games dubbed “Native Rez Hoops.” Photo Credit: Ryan Hudgeons](/images/resized/images/news/2016/94_jan20/20_100_100.jpg)
‘Native Rez Hoops’ a hit with listeners
Hearing local sports just got better with “Native Rez Hoops,” the new name for KYAT-FM’s live broadcast of local high school basketball games.
Local radio station, KYAT-FM, part of Millennium Media, Inc., is the first of its kind to begin broadcasting local high school basketball games in the Navajo language on a 100,000 watt FM station.
The coverage debuted when the boys varsity teams – Wingate Bears took on the Tohatchi Cougars at the Tohatchi High School Gymnasium Jan. 10.
KYAT’s Navajo DJ Eugene Plummer, who started working at the station in 2010, admitted that he was nervous at first, but it all fell in place for him as...