{"id":1867,"date":"2014-03-24T17:41:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T21:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/?page_id=1867"},"modified":"2022-08-21T19:27:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T23:27:15","slug":"tony-peters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/?page_id=1867","title":{"rendered":"Tony Peters"},"content":{"rendered":"

N\"Tony<\/a>ame:<\/strong> Tony Peters<\/p>\n

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Airshift:<\/strong>\u00a0Mondays, 10a to 2p<\/p>\n

Where did you grow up?<\/strong> \u00a0 I was born in Dayton, but moved to Cleveland at an early age, then North Carolina, then back to Dayton (whew)<\/p>\n

Who were your earliest influences?<\/strong>\u00a0 Casey Kasem and Kid Leo at WMMS in Cleveland.\u00a0 Being a kid in the Seventies and listening to the fantastic stations in Northeastern Ohio played a huge role in wanting to be a DJ.\u00a0 There was a great station in Raleigh, NC – WQDR, that always sounded like they were having fun.\u00a0 I wanted to get in on it.<\/p>\n

What was your first radio job?\u00a0<\/strong> WTIK-AM in Durham, NC.\u00a0 Made famous in the movie Bull Durham.\u00a0 They played REALLY OLD country music.\u00a0 I did weekends, and was the Traffic Director while in high school.\u00a0 Learned a lot.<\/p>\n

Other notable stations?<\/strong>\u00a0 WCHL-AM (Chapel Hill, NC), WASU-FM (Boone, NC), WXQR-FM (Jacksonville, NC), WTUE-FM (Dayton), and WING-FM (Dayton).<\/p>\n

What do you like about working on the radio?\u00a0<\/strong> I\u2019ve always felt that radio is the most intimate media.\u00a0 People can take radio with them to places TV still can\u2019t go – jogging, in the shower, driving.\u00a0 I love talking and interacting with the listeners and being part of a community.<\/p>\n

What do you dislike about working on the radio?<\/strong>\u00a0 I hate that computers have killed so much of the personality that radio once had.\u00a0 Most radio stations are automated, and very few have live DJs.\u00a0 And, a lot of stations are cookie-cutter copies of ones all over the country.\u00a0 That\u2019s what\u2019s attracted me to Oldies 97.3 – we have live DJs, AND we don\u2019t sound like any other station anywhere.<\/p>\n

What do you do when you\u2019re not volunteering at Oldies 97.3?<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m s Stay at Home Dad, who takes care of the cooking, cleaning, and running kids from here to there.\u00a0 I sing and play several instruments including guitar, bass, & drums.\u00a0 I\u2019m also an avid record collector (I have a very patient wife).\u00a0 I also like to jog, I just don\u2019t do it enough.<\/p>\n

What might people be surprised to know about you?<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019ve wanted to be a DJ my whole life.\u00a0 I\u2019m truly one of the lucky ones that became \u201cwhat he wanted to be when he grew up.\u201d\u00a0 There are tapes of me as a wee little kid playing DJ.\u00a0 They\u2019re embarrassing.<\/p>\n

If you would like a full listing of Tony’s “Sunday Night Music and Conversation show; go here:
\nhttp:\/\/www.IconFetch.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Name: Tony Peters Airshift:\u00a0Mondays, 10a to 2p Where did you grow up? \u00a0 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?\u00a0 Casey Kasem and Kid Leo at WMMS in Cleveland.\u00a0 Being a kid in the Seventies and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1893,"parent":17,"menu_order":210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1867","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3723,"href":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1867\/revisions\/3723"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}