Born in Mt. Shasta in 1970 and raised primarily in Mt. Shasta and McCloud for 30 years, Mike is truly a Siskiyou County native. He's been in the media and entertainment genre for over 20 years. His mother even swears that his first words were not "mommy" or "daddy", but "Come on down!" Those were the words first made famous by the late Johnny Olsen of TV's The Price Is Right. His family knew this was what he wanted to do all his life.

At age 10, he started out as an actor playing The Cowardly Lion in a fourth grade version of The Wizard Of Oz at Sisson Middle School in Mt. Shasta. He was inspired to go into television news when he toured both KHSL-TV studios in Chico, the original East 4th Street studio (now a real estate office) in 1983 and the current Silverbell Road location in north Chico in 1984, both courtesy of popular news reporter Rick Rigsby (who's now at Texas A&M University). His broadcasting career began on the radio at age 16 when he was high school reporter for KWSD-AM in Mt. Shasta (1987-1988). After his radio stint was halted, he went on to graduate from McCloud High School in 1990.

His television career started in college with Ray Berry's broadcast communications courses at College of the Siskiyous in Weed in 1991, where he met John Googins. He got his first major television job in 1995 interning at KRCR-TV Channel 7 in Redding, getting the job through future ESPN And NFL Network anchor Rich Eisen. After spending eight months interning, he moved back into radio in the summer of 1996 being hired as board operator at KMJC Radio in Mt. Shasta, running San Francisco Giants game in the old East Alma Street studio (now a CPA office). In 1997, he was hired as on-air talent and program director at KWHO-FM Radio in Mt. Shasta. Station owner Tom Huth credited Mike for the hire of longtime Redding television news anchor Cal Hunter to run KWHO's sister station KBLF-AM in Red Bluff. He would receive his vocational certification from C.O.S. in 1999 in the field of Media Communications, the first ever to do so. While at KWHO, he was hired to replace Jack Hoffman as ad designer at Northland Cable Television in Mt. Shasta in January of 2001. Mike designed ads on Channel 3 and Channel 29 in Mt. Shasta, Channel 6 and Channel 14 in Yreka since during that time.

While working at Northland, Mike tried his hand at coaching high school girls softball, uncharted territory for him after many years as a sports announcer. He served as assistant softball coach at McCloud High School for two seasons (2001-2002) under head coach Greta Jones, where the team won the NSCIF Division VI Championship in 2001. Not bad for someone who had never coached a day in his life. He hopes to coach again in the future. All in all, Mike Summers has proven to be a success both in the field and on the field.

On April 15, 2005, Mike officially took over Action Video Entertainment operations from John Googins. On May 20, 2005, he finally graduated from College of the Siskiyous with an associate degree in Media Communications. Then after a 4 1/2 stint at Northland Cable Television, Mike accepted a job at Sainte Television Group of Chico, owners of KCVU-TV FOX 30 (now KCVU-DT FOX 20), KRVU-TV UPN 21 (now MyTV Northern California 21 Chico/33 Eureka) and KUCO-TV Univision 27 on June 20, 2005. He currently works as their master operator and he aspires to move up in the future. The company has since added new two stations in Chico: KXVU-TV Telemundo 17 and KKTF-TV Telefutura 35 in Chico and two new stations in Medford, Oregon: KFBI-TV My 48 and KMCW-TV Telemundo 14. On December 16, 2009, he was named Sainte's Employee of the Year. He currently lives in the Chico area.

Mike was also an avid wrestling fan and was involved with a project called Continental Championship Wrestling, based in Medford, Oregon. He is a huge sports fan and is currently working on a project to help bring a professional baseball team (and stadium) back to Medford, Oregon, called the "Golden Baseball League Medford Expansion Project". It has since been renamed the new Southern Oregon Timberjacks franchise.

Politically, he unashamedly admits to being a Ronald Reagan Conservative and is now an Independent, leaning more to the right. He is also a supporter of Yes on 8/Protect Marriage in California and has thrown his support behind the Southern Oregon Meth Project, a program dedicated to educating people and children on the dangers of methamphetamine use and what to do to combat it.

He launched his current website, MikeSummers.org, in 2007 and is always looking for new opportunities. So check back for future updates!