Fred Lundgren is the founder of The Media Intersection. He is also the licensee of Radio Station KCAA, 1050 AM, Loma Linda, California, a station that serves the greater Riverside/San Bernardino markets. Lundgren also owns an interest in other radio stations.
Lundgren is the co-founder of mediasurplus.com, Inc. which will soon make its debut on KCAA. Mediasurplus.com will market the surplus advertising inventory of websites, and commercial radio and TV stations. KCAA will anchor the project. The Riverside San Bernardino market will test the concept.
Fred Lundgren is 57-years-old. His wife Linda is a native of Houston and has been a real estate agent since 1980. They live in the Sundown subdivision with daughters Eden and Brianna. Sundown is an unincorporated community between Houston and Katy, Texas. Lundgren has two grown sons and four more step-children from a previous marriage.
Mr. Lundgren was born in Elgin, Texas and grew up in a farming community in eastern Travis County. As a youth, he was a leader in 4-H and FFA and president of his high school science club. He received awards and recognitions from each of these organizations.
After graduation, Lundgren moved to Houston and attended a radio and television academy operated by two legendary broadcasters, Robert St. John and John Cameron Swayze. After successfully completing the Academy, Lundgren continued his education with engineering courses which earned him an FCC Radio and Telephone License and qualified him to perform engineering duties at most commercial radio stations.
Thereafter, Mr. Lundgren gained experience at several Texas radio stations, becoming proficient in all aspects of broadcasting including programming, sales, management and engineering. This experience was essential when, in 1976, Lundgren founded Bastrop County Communications, a corporation that applied for, and received a license for Radio Station KELG 1440 AM at Elgin, Texas, a full time station serving the Austin, Texas market and the first new AM signal to enter the Austin market since the era of LBJ.
During the 1970s, Mr. Lundgren also developed and managed a sizable family farm and ranch operation and a small fleet of over the road trucks. The challenges facing Lundgren during the 1970's led him to co-found several rural advocacy organizations including a member-owned cooperative, a member owned Water Supply Corporation, a member-owned State Chartered Credit Union, and a member-owned marketing Corporation. He also served in leadership positions in his local church, the Texas Farmers Union, and the American Agricultural Movement. All this earned Lundgren the reputation of a man who gets things done.
Soon, Lundgren was appointed as local election judge in Travis County (Austin) and became active in Austin area politics. When government funding was announced for "Green Thumb," a federal employment program for older Americans, Fred was appointed as the supervisor for the pilot program where he hired the Green Thumb employees, and then identified, organized, and managed their publicly funded projects from park renovations to day care centers.
In 1979, Lundgren was chosen by the Texas Synod of the Lutheran Church of America to serve on the "Religious Task Force On Food Policy". The task force sponsored a multi-faith national conference in Washington D.C. which eventually produced a joint policy paper on food and hunger issues which became the policy of many denominations.
These activities drew Mr. Lundgren further into public life. In 1981, he was hired by State Representative Dan Kubiak (a veteran Texas legislator, now deceased). In that capacity, Lundgren worked for a select House Committee where he helped secure emergency funding for the state-wide distribution of chemicals that were used to control the exploding plague of fire ants that invaded Texas schools, parks and other public places during the early 1980s.
In 1983, Mr. Lundgren sold his business interests and accepted a high profile position as Special Assistant to the Texas Commissioner of Agriculture. Immediately thereafter, Lundgren received an appointment as Staff Director to Governor White and Commissioner Hightower's Rural advisory committee and he continued in that capacity throughout White's term in office.
For most of his tenure in State Government, which spanned eight years, Lundgren was a Department Of Agriculture spokesman and convention speaker. He represented the agency in dozens of Washington meetings with House and Senate Agriculture Committee members, and served as the liaison to other federal agencies such as the FDA, EPA and USDA, as well as attending many conferences on food and trade issues in other states. Lundgren also worked closely with the "Little Texas White House", officially known as the Office Of State/Federal Relations, which was the liaison between State and Federal Government.
During several statewide rulemaking procedures, Lundgren served as a hearing's examiner for the agency.
In 1984, Lundgren took a leave of absence and worked in several political campaigns including the Presidential primary campaign of Jesse Jackson and the Walter Mondale Presidential campaign during the 1984 general election cycle.
In 1985, Mr. Lundgren received an "Outstanding Service Award" for his work with the rural advisory committee. Over his years of government service, Lundgren received numerous awards and recognitions from trade organizations, and non-profit groups.
In 1988, the Department Of Agriculture recognized Lundgren for "Outstanding Service To The People Of Texas" an award presented to Mr. Lundgren by the Commissioner Of Agriculture.
Mr. Lundgren left State Government in 1989 to pursue business interests which included several media properties and a fifty-percent partnership in a sizeable oil and gas production company which, by 1991, had grown to approximately 300 wells, 75 leases, and a natural gas gathering system covering over 10,000 leased acres. Lundgren and his business partner sold the company in September of 1991 during the spike in crude oil prices caused by the Gulf War.
In 1992, Lundgren took a career pause to fulfill a thirty-year commitment to himself by co-authoring the book, The Nature of Wealth. The book contains original economic formulas gleaned from a one hundred year historical dissection of the American capitalist system. The Nature of Wealth was underwritten by The National Organization For Raw Materials, an innovative "think tank" and by Acres USA magazine, a leading advocate for environmentally safe foods. Lundgren considers The Nature of Wealth his most noteworthy achievement. Click here for audio tape.
In December of 1994, The Nature of Wealth was published and Lundgren resumed his business career full time.
During 1995, Lundgren became a 1/3 partner in the company that successfully moved a new radio station into the Houston, Texas market. That station is KILE 1560 AM, Bellaire, Texas; formally licensed to Port Lavaca, Texas. The station debuted in February of 1997 with ethnic programming serving immigrants from five continents.
Currently, Lundgren serves as President of two broadcasting corporations, two Internet companies and occasionally serves as an engineering consultant to other broadcasters. In his spare time, he enjoys taking calls and answering questions about his hobby website that promotes a single product "Treehouse plans"
Since 1998, Lundgren has helped parents in a dozen countries build treehouses for their children, because as he puts it, "A treehouse is a gift your children will remember forever".
In 2000, Lundgren made a bid for Texas House Of Representatives in District 130,
He spent little on the race while garnering a surprising 15,000+ votes in the general election. His campaign slogan was, " I don't want your money, I just want your vote". He has made a committment to run for the seat again. see details
Lundgren brings his experinece and expertise to his newest enterprise, "The Media Intersection", a company soon to become synonymous with low-cost, successful small business promotion.
