In the late 80's, under the moniker of "Ursela D", Carol started out her strange musical career as lead singer for Detente Touch, one of the many starving grunge bands who never made it out of the Pacific Northwest.

In the 90's Carol moved to Napa Valley where she raised a wonderful son while attending Sonoma State University. Fell in love with RADIO and earned her sound-gal stripes busting butt for the SSU Center for the Performing Arts.

After college, Carol was publicist and radio promotions for world music record label Tinder Records and a film critic for syndicated web portal UncleWebster.

Carol's big radio break came in 1999 as part time news anchor at FM 100 KZST in Sonoma County.

In 2001 Carol landed FT newsroom status at News/Talk 1350 KSRO as Producer of KSRO Morning News with Hudson and Page, The Pat Thurston Show and later The News According To Spencer Hughes. She became KSRO Promotions Director, and ran a two person team as chief engineer for remote broadcasts. Producer and often host of specialty programming including high school and college basketball, psa programs, weather/traffic, disaster coverage, election coverage and infomercial style client-paid programming.

In 2005, Carol headed home and landed a premium night shift in Portland as host of KUPL on Shuffle and then later pulled double-duty handling morning news for both New Country 98-7 KUPL and K-HiTs 106-7.

Carol was unexpectedly benched during the CBS Radio sale of its cluster to Alpha Broadcasting in August of 2008. This exciting time for Carol included a short stint playing guitar in a female AC/DC cover band, hosting karaoke while working towards her Coms/Arts degrees at PSU.

2010-2017 Carol drove professionally for Radio Cab, Uber & Lyft and also contracted as a traffic reporter from home for a smart phone app servicing law enforcement in Miami-Dade, Jacksonville, Palm Beach County and Tampa.

2017 ended with Carol moving to Page, AZ and served as News Director for a three frequency cluster. Carol managed the news for radio, social media and LakePowellLife.com.

Carol volunteered her time for the Page Public Library and the Page Chamber of Commerce. She spearheaded a new music program for Page students.

In September 2019 Carol relocated to Phoenix for a reporter anchor position with iHeart Media-NBC Radio News-24-7 News.

In her spare time Carol enjoys making experimental music and sharing it on http://reverbnation.com/carolbatchelor