Volunteers
WSWO-LP / Oldies 97.3FM is proud of the volunteer staff that keep this station going! We are 100% staffed by volunteers who bring a variety of experiences and years of knowledge in music, engineering, broadcasting and media production. If you would like to know more about the on-air personalities that you enjoy hearing, click on the individual tabs to learn more!
Rock and Roll has been in my blood, since I first turned on a radio listening to Elvis, Buddy Holly etc, and I love it! Growing up in West Virginia I was fortunate enough to hear KDKA from Pittsburgh and late at night could listen to the great disc jockeys on WLS from Chicago and […]
I joined WSWO when I retired from full-time engineering. I spent my career developing reconnaissance systems for the Air Force, working as military, civil service and as a contractor. I still do consulting on systems engineering, currently for laser communications systems. I play music for my Church in Fairborn. I play 6 string guitar and […]
Dennis Stewart, also known as Doctor Rock, really does have a PhD. He loves classic rock, blues , R&B and soul music. Dennis was the owner of the infamous Walnut Hills bar for 38 years the establishment booked great regional bands and often brought in Chicago blues acts. (He also owned the Fusion Lounge, Funky Disco, in the early […]
John Bennett’s radio career began in his bedroom with his records and the weather forecast clipped from the newspaper as he tried to sound like the great Top 40 DJs of the time. After college he went to LaPorte, Indiana, one of the most remote radio outposts in […]
I listened to Top 40 radio in the ’60s and ’70s from Dayton, Cincinnati, and Chicago. In the early ’70s, I worked at stations in Jackson, OH and London, KY. On my Saturday show I try to bring some of that Top 40 energy as we play the great music from that time. It is […]
We lost Kevin O’Boyle on July 4, 2020. Kevin was always positive, always well prepared, and a very talented play-by-play broadcaster, and covered numerous football, basketball, and baseball games on Oldies 97.3. He also hosted several seasons of our former football coaches show with then-Wayne head football coach, Jay Minton. His unexpected passing came as […]
AKA PJ. I am a lifelong resident of Miami Valley. I started my broadcasting career at the age of 16 at WIZE in Springfield and have worked at WBLY, WCOM, WCHO, WCHI, WSWO-TV26, and other regional radio stations along with Armed Forces Radio (AFKN) in both on-air and engineering capacities. In the ’60s, after foreseeing […]
Join Mike Reisz- Wednesdays from 4-7 pm for “Mike’s Connections”. The whole world links together in Mike’s strange universe. Oddball facts, strange celebrations, death-defying convoluted logic, oh, and all those oh-so-great tunes from the 50s, 60s and 70s… Radio bio: I started listening to radio as an innocent child (driving my poor mother nuts with requests to […]
Kel Crum pursued a career in radio the day he discovered there was no long-term money in folding balloon animals. He later discovered there wasn’t much more money in radio, but what’s done is done. He has worked at several stations including WDPR in Dayton, WBLY in Springfield, and WLW in Cincinnati. Kel has been writing […]
Some say I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be on the radio. When I was a little kid, my grandparents had a big console radio in their living room and I used to listen to our local announcers on that radio. I vowed, […]
As I was growing up listening to top 40 rock and roll radio stations in the early 1960’s, I began to develop a passion for wanting to become a top 40 style radio announcer. Discovering firsthand the harsh realities of the commercial radio industry in the mid 1970’s, while working at two small town commercial […]
We lost Bill Glover Feb 24th, 2016. We lost a great Friend and one of our original talents that made Oldies 97.3 what it is. While we still mourn his passing, we do know he would prefer we Laugh and remember him with a SMILE ! Bill, you will always live on in our […]
Name: Tony Peters Airshift: Mondays, 10a to 2p Where did you grow up? I was born in Dayton, but moved to Cleveland at an early age, then North Carolina, then back to Dayton (whew) Who were your earliest influences? Casey Kasem and Kid Leo at WMMS in Cleveland. Being a kid in the Seventies and […]
Zack relocated to the Dayton area from southeast Ohio to attend Wright State University. He got his start in radio while still a high school student, at the now-defunct WZIO near Portsmouth, Ohio, starting out as a board operator and statistician for sports […]
Shelly promotes Dayton, Ohio rock and roll bands and encourages everyone to support their local music scene. Also a musician, she prefers to produce rock shows and successfully built 2 passion plays based on the Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, using all Dayton musicians and music theater actors. She and her husband have an […]
Hi Oldies Listeners, my name is Joey B. I grew up here in the local area and have been listening to all this great music we play here ever since I can remember. Keeping this great music alive one of my goals because I don’t want it to be lost for current or future listeners. […]
Born and raised in the land of funk (Dayton, Ohio) I was lucky enough to hear some of the best music that have influenced me though my life. From local radio to the great bands and solo acts, I got the itch for radio early in my life. One of the first paying jobs came […]