Kel Crum

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 […]

John King is a retired Radio Broadcasting executive.   The last 15 years of his career were spent doing corporate oversight management for the largest radio corporations.  Deregulation of the radio industry and the following consolidation, sent John through a whirlwind tour of Regent, Citadel, Clear Channel, Capstar, and SFX Broadcasting companies.  Having lived in Nashville, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]