Dwight Arnold
Dwight was born in Orange, California. He moved, as a very young child, to North San Diego County to a town called San Marcos. He graduated from San Marcos High School, and upon graduation enrolled at Palomar Junior College (also in San Marcos) and there found radio at the Palomar College Radio Station KSM.
Upon graduating from Palomar Arnold took the show he had developed while in college “Backstage Pass” to 91X- the legendary San Diego alternative radio station. Dwight’s first interview with 91X was with Kate Pierson of the B-52’s. Backstage Pass aired on 91X for the next ten years where Dwight interviewed such major artists as Robert Smith of The Cure, Sting, and Nirvana (including a very subdued Kurt Cobain). Dwight worked in many positions for the station, on air, production, research, and ended up as Promotions Director.
After 10 years at 91X and a brief stint working with a classic rock station Arnold became part of the original crew that started the second alternative radio station in San Diego called “The Flash” where he was VP of Marketing and Music Director. In addition to those titles he also continued to producing Backstage Pass. Arnold also produced and hosted 2 other shows: “The All-Request Flashback Hour” and a new music show called “Flash Forward”.
Arnold left San Diego for the OM/PD position at KCXX “X1039”. Dwight had a great run there, got huge ratings, did amazing concerts (ten bands in one Christmas show alone), and while continuing to produce and host Backstage Pass. Arnold began producing and hosting “The Sunday Night Music Meeting”. During this show he had some amazing live in studio guests including Dexter from The Offspring, Gavin Rossdale from Bush and Morrissey.
After a brief stint at the Los Angeles alternative radio station Y017, Arnold stayed in LA after Y197 turned to Spanish. He took over as Marketing Director for a classical and jazz radio combo called K-Mozart (KMZT) and KJAZ .
Arnold’s next journey happened when he got called, and accepted, a six month adventure as Operations Manager and Morning Show Co-host at a rock station in Guymon, Oklahoma called KKBS “The Boss”. Dwight enjoyed the station and the people, but after my six months decided it was time to go back to California…
Arnold decided next to come to the Coachella Valley as Marketing Director for a company called Morris Media and he was placed in charge of six radio stations. Dwight wanted to return to programming and to the alternative format so he crossed town to Mitchell Media where took the position of APD/MD Marketing Dr and afternoon drive on air.
In June of 2004 Arnold added part time duties at CBS San Diego, where he continued to doing weekend and fill-in air shifts, until his arrival at Cumulus Santa Barbara.
Arnold left radio fulltime in 2006 to work in the tech world first as National Program Director for mSnap, and then as “Business in Motion” Seminar for Hip Cricket. These positions still had him working with radio overseeing as many as 1,000 radio station with their text message platform marketing efforts, and pitching text message promotional use to radio advertisers directly as well.
In mid 2008 KMRJ Arnold moved the Sunday Night Music Meeting and Backstage Pass west to Temecula to KTMQ “Q1033” serving the Riverside/ San Bernardino market.
Dwight Arnold has to date over 25 years of radio experience, in programming, promotions, marketing, sales, and technical support through text database management. Additionally Arnold has worked on and produced 2 radio sponsored television shows (The 91X TV show and “Flash TV), and 4 magazines (The 91X Magazine, The Flash Magazine, “The X” Magazine, and “The Works” Magazine), and has even managed and operated a live venue (The Flash Café).
…and now Dwight Arnold’s radio adventure continues as Program Director for Cumulus Santa Barbara and mornings on 106.3 The Surf….
