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Paul Oates
Paul K. Oates returned to WLVL in January 2003 following a one year hiatus as Clerk of the Niagara County Legislature. He now hosts the morning show, weekdays from 6-9am, as well as Tradio, the station's buy-sell-swap show, from 9:15 til 10 a.m. Previously, he worked at WLVL as assistant news director (1982-84) and as production director (1988-2001).
Paul is a 1982 journalism graduate of St. Bonaventure University. He started his career in radio at the campus station (WSBU-FM) and at nearby Salamanca, N.Y. (WGGO-AM).
A milk bottle collector for over 30 years, Paul published his book, "A History of Lockport, N.Y. Dairies: 1895-1970" in October 2000. Oates Dairy, begun by his great-grandparents, was in business for 62 years.
Paul and his wife, Cheryl, were married in 1986 and they live in Lockport.
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John Raymond
John started as a teen DJ in 1966 at WYSL in Buffalo. He went to Oswego State that fall and founded the college radio station WOCR in 1968.
John did radio-tv news in the Army at Fort Hood, Texas from 1972-1974.
John has worked as a Program Director at numerous radio stations in New York and Texas.
John joined the WLVL staff in 1994 and currently mans the newsroom in the afternoons and a community talk
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A graduate of St. Bonaventure University, Bill O'Loughlin has expressed his passion for radio from his days at the campus station, WSBU. After a successful stint in the U.S. Army and Army Reserves, he embarked on a long and lucrative career as a marketing executive and senior investment advisor, ultimately starting his own company where he consults a select group of clients.
His business success led to a series of media partnerships, including WBEN-AM, WIVB-TV, and Business First of Buffalo. Bill has served the public in an active political career, including terms as Amherst Councilman, State Insurance Fund Commissioner, and endorsed candidate for Erie County Clerk. He has also been active on a large number of community boards, but always comes back to his first love, talk radio.
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Dave Marmon "Good Neighbor Dave"
Dave came to WLVL in 1985 working part time and weekends. From 1987 to 1997 he was the host of the early morning drive show from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and co-hosted the Dial-a-Deal show on Saturdays.
Dave is a member of the Lockport UCC, the Salvation Army Advisory board, the Kiwanis Club of Lockport (and past president), the Reflections committee at Lockport Memorial Hospital and he is also a member of the Mayor's substance abuse committee.
Dave also works at Lockport Cable Television and the Niagara County Historical Society.
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Paula Venné
WLVL welcomes a bit of estrogen to the airwaves with the addition of Paula Venné to the Ask the Pro show and Super Dial-a-Deal. Paula has been bouncing around the WNY broadcasting world since her graduation from the Buffalo State College broadcasting program in 1994.
Paula’s television work began at WNED-TV where she served on the staff of Reading Rainbow and learned the ropes of ad-libbing during the fund drives. She next appeared as the co-host of Human Touch on Adelphia Cable. Paula’s claim to fame is that she has been a stay-at-home mom with her two children for ten years, while pursuing a freelance singing and voice acting career. Since 2001, you’ve probably heard her urging you to “Do the Kenny,” “Open your heart to the SPCA” or some other such thing in the nearly 20 jingles she’s recorded. Paula also lends her voice to numerous commercials and online training courses. Parishioners from St. Anthony’s and St. Joseph’s in Lockport know Paula’s singing voice along with the other members of “The Angels.”
A 1990 graduate of Niagara Wheatfield H.S., Paula makes her home in Newfane with her kids and her tuxedo cat, Sophie.
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 Norm Palmer
Norm has been announcing high school sports since 1982 when he was a P.A. announcer for Lockport High School. That quickly turned into a broadcast career - beginning as a play-by-play announcer on cable TV in 1984 ... leading to him hosting "The Sports Magazine" cable talk show ... and culminating in Norm's current tenure as WLVL's sports
director.
Norm has won numerous awards, including the WNY Sports Writers Cornerstone Award in 1988, the Cable TV Volunteer of the Year Award for Sports Broadcasting in 1992, the Section VI Sportsman of the Year Award for Sports Broadcasting in 2006, and the prestigious Stan Barron Award for Outstanding High School Sports Broadcasting in 2007.
Norm lives in Lockport with his wife, Becky, who broadcasts with him at times, when long-time color commentator John Adams is absent. He retired from Delphi in 2005 and has six adult children: Dalena, Ricky, Jodi, Freddie, Amy and Mary.
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Dirk Van
Dirk Van has been host of NBC Radio's "First Light" morning magazine show for seven years. Van broke into radio in 1977 while doing graduate work in Anthropology at New York University. He became News Director of WGCH, Greenwich, Connecticut, general assignment reporter for all-news WCBS, New York, and News Director of WHN, New York during the following three years, staying at WHN until he moved to the network in 1988.
Van has won numerous awards--Ohio State, New York Press Club, Clarion, Edward R Murrow, Angel, and, he was named "Personality of the Year" by the Radio Festival of New York. His magazine show, "First Light," is a two-time gold medal winner at the Festival.
Van lives with his wife and son in Vienna, Virginia.
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Brad Riter 
Brad has been a part of the hometown radio scene since 1997. He presided over the official Sabres' Post Game Show for two seasons and has hosted shows with various local sports figures including Ruben Brown, Lee Evans, Paul Gaustad, and Jerry Sullivan.
Brad was born in Buffalo, grew up in West Seneca, and attended SUNY Geneseo (just an hour or so down the road.) He is recently engaged and he and his fiancee Carol plan to stay in Western New York for many years to come.
In addition to his radio show on WLVL and WECK, you can catch Brad's television show, Buffalo Main Event, weekly on Time Warner Sports Net and online at www.buffalomainevent.com.
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Neal Boortz 
For those of you who don't know, Neal Boortz has been a Talk Show Host (What Bill Clinton would refer to as a "Preacher of Hate") in Atlanta, Georgia since 1969. Since 1993 he has been holding forth on News Talk 750 WSB, a radio station with a 50,000 watt afterburner. Since early 1999 my show has been syndicated on radio stations from Maine to California and from Alaska to Florida.
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