Pat is celebrating his 41st year in radio. It all started Oct. 2nd 1968 in Chicago, working part time at an all Spanish station (by the way I did NOT speak Spanish).
While in the Air Force I worked at a little radio in Biloxi, MS. While in Vietnam I got to help at Armed Forces Radio on Monkey Mountain, DaNang AFB. Then I moved to Scottsbluff, Nebraska. After the service I worked my way through college by being the local Radio Bad Boy on KOLT.
Jul 1 2011 12:00AM
Posted 237 days 4 hrs 12 mins ago
Morning guy, then Sales Manager and finally General Manager.
The KATH radio group hired me as Corporate Operations Manager, and I traveled from station to station reformatting and working with the local "talent." I had a dream of becoming a professional actor so I moved to Jackson, Mississippi, to become Artistic Director for "The Little Theatre of Jackson." (The oldest theatre in Mississippi). An Actor in Mississippi can starve to death, so I kept working late nights and early mornings at WJQS.
I appeared in a few local films and qualified for a Screen Actors Guild card.
In 1978. got a gig teaching Radio/TV and Theatre Arts back in Scottsbluff, so I moved back to Nebraska and back to KOLT radio, this time as Morning host. I then transferred to Chadron State College and worked mornings while I taught radio/TV. Then I became the Station Manager of a new FM station that the Kath group started. I applied and was granted a Construction Permit for a new station, but before we got it built I moved to the Ozarks.
Worked as Morning Host for 2 years in West Plains, MO
I started the Heart of the Ozarks theatre company, where we specialized in radio drama. In 1988 I moved to Marion to become Morning Host for WDDD. In 1991 I moved to Owensboro, KY, to host mornings there. WDDD hired me to return, so I took WDDD to the top of the ratings and in 1992 I won the 1st ever Silver Dome Award for Best Air Personality in an Illinois Small Market
In 1994 I went to work for River Radio at Z100:
Hosting mornings on Z100. In 1999 I moved to talk radio at WJPF. In Sept. 2000 the MRR moved me to mornings at Magic 95.1. I Celebrate Life each weekday morning on Magic. I am married to a wonderful human being, Linda, the one true love of my life. We have 6 kids between us, Jeff, Kelley, Loring, Amy, Stephen and Samantha. The Lord has so far blessed us with 3 wonderful Grandkids, Lane, Wade and Gracieanna.
I love radio and I thrive on Morning radio...
I can't believe they pay me to come in here and play.
