HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Hutchinson Community College will hold a Management Forum on Thursday, Oct. 24 at 6:30 p.m. inside the Justice Theatre of the Shears Technology Center on the HutchCC campus.
The forum is free to attend and open to the public.
The featured speakers for the event are Matt Althouse and Daren Dunn, both of EAGLE Media. Althouse is the General Manager, while Dunn is the Program Director and On-Air Personality on My 93-1.
Matt Althouse started his radio career at KJCK-FM in Junction City in 2003 as on-air talent and later, music director. In 2009 Matt joined Hull Broadcasting in Great Bend where he had the opportunity to be exposed to every facet of the business.
He was also Program Director for KBGL-FM from 2012 until 2021 when he accepted the position of General Manager for Eagle Communications in Great Bend. In his first year of station management, Matt and his sales team hit all but one of their monthly quotas. And in 2024 he accepted the General Manager position for EAGLE Media in Hutchinson.
Daren Dunn is a Hutchinson native and a proud graduate of Hutchinson Community College and the University of Kansas where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Journalism. Daren earned several Kansas Association of Broadcaster awards at the collegiate level for his work in radio and television. He has since been honored by the KAB at the professional level in 2021 (Best Sports Feature) for his Public Address work and again in 2022 (Best Morning Show). Daren was the first radio personality to win the Medium Market category for Best Morning Show. His morning show took second in 2023 and was honored again as the best show in the state in 2024. In his spare time, Daren is the public address voice of the Blue Dragons and joins radio voice Sean Boston on the road as a color analyst.
The two guests will share information about how they entered their careers, as well as answer questions about business management from the audience.
To learn more about the forum, contact Dan "Coach Nac" Naccarato at [email protected].