Mike Chambers began broadcasting on mainstream radio in 1982 at the age of sixteen. “I literally bugged a guy until he put me on the air,” recalls Mike. “I got hit with the radio bug when I was thirteen and with the help of my dad I had built my own studio in my bedroom at home. I started making tapes and getting them to people. I once made my mom drive me to a job interview.” After twelve years on the air, Mike left radio for good, he thought, in 1994.

“I was lucky in my career,” Mike recalled. “I had the privilege of meeting many fascinating people and rubbed shoulders with a number of stars. I found them to be just folks. People like me. How great they were never came up. The conversations always seemed to revolve around family and life in general. I learned then that rich or poor, people are all the same with the same wants, needs and desires.”

In 2005 during Hurricane Katrina, Mike noticed that things were not as they appeared to be. “I watched as all those people stood waiting for help on bridges and downtown. Relief poured past these people at seventy miles an hour and nobody stopped, put them on a bus or even threw a single bottle of water to them. I knew then we were viewed as nothing but cattle.”

A year later on August 1, 2006, Mike began discussing the current state of affairs and the headlines on a nightly basis. “We started the show in a closet, literally,” Mike remembered, ” It was a five by seven closet I had tucked a studio into. When we first came on the air, it was so hot in there that I would have to have tea and ice water passed in every 30 minutes along with a towel. I think I lost twenty pounds that first month.”

Mike has been broadcasting nightly almost continually since that date bringing his own unique perspective to today’s headlines.

Originally a two hour program, the Midnight Rider expanded to four hours nightly in January of 2009. “I love the four hour format,” said Mike, “It makes it so much easier to flesh out a subject. It also allows for greater interaction with the audience. Couple that with the time slot and it makes for what I think is informative yet fun radio.”

“We attempt to bring good solid information to the show and throw in some good tunes along the way. Plus we try to have a bit of fun too.”

Mike is a father of six and a grandfather of three. He lives on an old 320 acre farm.