Rick Portanova

Rick is a broadcaster at heart, having built an internet radio network back in 1993. Back then they were called archived shows (mp3), the term podcast didn't exist but some people were already podcasting and he was one of them. Internet radio fizzled out fast when the Sirius satellites were launched and all the big networks inhaled all the programming. Here we are 30 years later. My how things have changed. Independent media put regular people on the same playing field and news and entertainment changed forever. His passion is being a boat captain and spending every minute with his little girl dog Mandy by his side.

His news delivery style is described as "Hit the fact, explain why anyone would care, make a joke and move on". He tears though things he believes will be worth a listener knowing and hoping he can get them to smile or chuckle. Much of the news is not "Happy news" and he realizes how hard things are for farmers and truckers, so he tries to keep it light and comical because no matter how bad things get we always need to find a way to laugh about it or we'd all go crazy.

If you want a passionate ally to dole out the news while mixing it up with funny short stories and odd side news, you will find his favorite program "Daily Farm Brief" a worthy 10 minutes of you weekday. He isn't very pc and he doesn't do boardrooms, he is difficult and overly direct. This makes his life 10x more difficult, but he is right at home behind the mic.