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Doug Young
Doug Young comes to Hometown 1340 WLVL as our new News Director ... with 25 years of radio experience and several awards to broadcasting excellence.
Doug was born in San Diego and started his radio career at KOGO: The Radio Magazine in 1982. He worked his way through KSDO (winning three Golden Mics), WIOD in Miami, WJNO in West Palm Beach, and WGR in Buffalo. In 2002, Doug won a New York State Broadcasting Association Award for best local broadcast for a preview of Superbowl XXVII. He also worked at WBEN, WNSA, 97 and Oldies 104. Plus he did traffic for the Buffalo Bills Radio Network.
Doug is married to Francine and has two children: Nicole Sally and Doug Young Jr. He enjoys sports and movies and loves to cook. |
 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 current mans the newsroom in the afternoons, as well as Saturday morning's for Dial-A-Deal.
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Scott Leffler, of course.
Scott started out at WLVL as host of "Dialog" in December of 2002, bringing a brand of talk to Western New York that no one has been able to duplicate since.
Now he serves as production director and generally does whatever else needs done around the office.
Scott is a graduate of Niagara-Wheatfield (1992) and Ashland University (1996) where his coursework focused on journalism and political science.
Scott lives in Lockport with his wife and two daughters. An avid hockey fan, Scott is also very active in local politics and a huge proponent of local music.
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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.
Currently, Dave hosts "Ask the Pro" on weekdays from 10:15 a.m. to 11 a.m. and continues to co-host Dial-a-Deal.
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. |
 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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 Bill O'Reilly
www.billoreilly.com
In 2002, Mr. O'Reilly brought his "no spin" concept to radio. The Radio Factor is now heard on more than 400 stations nationwide and is one of the most profitable syndicated radio programs in history.
In addition, Bill O'Reilly is one of only two authors in the past ten years to have three consecutive New York Times number one non-fiction bestsellers. "The O'Reilly Factor," "The No Spin Zone," and "Who's Looking Out for You" have sold millions of copies. O'Reilly's novel, "Those Who Trespass," has been optioned by Mel Gibson for the movies.
Mr. O'Reilly also writes a syndicated newspaper column which is carried by hundreds of papers across the USA including The New York Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
In his spare time, O'Reilly is an avid sleeper.
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 Jeff Lasky (AKA Mike Melody) Jeff Lasky, known to WLVL listeners as Mike Melody, was born and raised in Tonawanda, NY where he still resides. He graduated from Tonawanda High School and received a BA degree in Communications Studies from Oswego State College.
Mike started his life as a DJ at high school dances and then began his radio career at WOSC in Fulton, NY. He also spent a few years in college radio at WRVO in Oswego, NY.
After a semester in London, England, studying international broadcasting, Jeff worked the all-night shift at WYSL in Buffalo, NY. He followed that by many years as a mobile DJ working the banquet circuit.
In 1985 Jeff came to WLVL and acquired the moniker "Mike Melody", an old Buffalo radio name. His Program "The Melody Corner" airs on Sundays and features the greatest hits of the golden age of rock and roll.
Jeff is also employed at the Erie County Medical Center, He enjoys all kinds of music, rotisserie league baseball, bowling, golf and reading. |
Paul Harvey
www.PaulHarvey.com
Paul Harvey has said that he was raised in radio newsrooms. During his time in those newsrooms, he has broadcast the news to millions, built an active professional life and established himself as one of the foremost newsmen in the business. Read more...
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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. And now you can hear him on WLVL from 6 to 9 p.m. weekdays.
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Scott Leffler