Nate Bukaty
Name: Nate Bukaty Male
Birthdate: March 01, 1976 Location: 66080
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OFFICIAL HOST BIO: proud native of Wyandotte County, in Kansas City, Kansas, Nate has been a part of the Sports Radio 810 WHB team since the summer of 2003. Nate spent his first four years at WHB working as the traveling pre-game and post-game reporter for the Kansas City Royals Radio Network. He now co-hosts The Border Patrol, weekdays from 6am to 9am, with Steven St. John. In addition to his work at WHB, Nate is the pre-game host and sideline reporter for Kansas University Football, and the play-by-play voice of Kansas women’s basketball on the Jayhawk Radio Network. Nate also serves as the clubhouse reporter for FSN Kansas City’s post-game Royals coverage.
In 1994, Nate graduated from the vaunted baseball factory known as Bishop Ward High school. While the “Little School in the Hood that Could” currently boasts 6 consecutive State Baseball Championships, Ward never even sniffed a title while Nate was playing. Coincidence? We think not.
After his days at Ward High, Nate moved on to the University of Kansas, from which he graduated in 1998, with a degree in Broadcast journalism. Of course, KU is known for having one of the top college basketball programs in the country. Yet while The Jayhawks have made it to the Final Four of the NCAA tournament a staggering 13 times, they never saw a Final Four during Nate’s 4 years of college. Picking up a pattern yet?
After graduating from Kansas, Nate’s first full-time radio job came in the thriving metropolis of Moberly, Missouri. During his time in “The Magic City,” Nate held a variety of responsibilities, including Country Music DJ, News Anchor, and Farm Show Reporter on “Superstation KRES.” Nate’s direct boss in Moberly was current WHB Producer Doug Stewart, who served as the News Director at KRES. Nate says his fondest memories of Moberly are of the evenings that he and Doug would hang out at Lula’s Bar, watching Cardinals games and conversing with the locals.
Nate lasted just one year in Moberly, before opportunity came knocking back in his hometown, in the form of upstart radio station 1250 the Game. “All Day, All Night, All Sports” was the station’s slogan, though “All Day, All Night, No Listeners” might have been more appropriate. 1250 lasted less than a year, before the plug was pulled.
At that point, Nate moved to sister station News Radio 980, KMBZ, were he initially worked as a producer and reporter for the Royals pregame and postgame show. He continued in that role until moving to WHB in 2003.
In Nate’s words:
+ Proudest moment: Getting married to my beautiful wife, Kelly, on April 21st of 2007.
+ Best moment as a broadcaster: A few come to mind: 1) Interviewing Wilt Chamberlain when he came back to Kansas in 1997. 2) Conducting an on-field interview with Carlos Beltran after he hit a walk-off Home Run against the White Sox on Opening Day of 2004. It was the first year of the Royals on WHB, and it was all down hill from there! 3) Working the sidelines during the 2008 Fed Ex Orange Bowl, concluding the greatest season in Kansas Football history.
+ Favorite movies:
1. Grosse Point Blank
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Monty Python And the Holy Grail
4. The Life Aquatic, with Steve Zissou
5. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
+Favorite musical groups:
1. The Beastie Boys
2. The Rolling Stones
3. A Tribe Called Quest
4. Led Zeppelin
5. The Arctic Monkeys
+Best Barbeque in Kansas City: I must defer to my father on this one. He’s always sworn by Arthur Bryant’s, and I can’t disagree with him. Although there are soon many great options, you can’t go wrong.
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