The Cool Oldies 1450 Team
Michael Betteridge – General Manager
Chuck Gelber – Program Director
Betty Troxell – Accounting
Pat Rhodes – Traffic/Ad Manager
William Warren – Director of IT Services
DJ Kemosabi Joe
DJ Chaz
DJ Jay
DJ Tim
DJ Nick Brady
DJ Gene Reid
Donna Betteridge – In Memory Of
Jason Thurston – High school sports announcer
Tom Geppi – High school sports announcer
Rick Little – High school sports announcer
Ryan Piers – High school sports announcer
Michael Rajnik – High school sports announcer
Brian Burdette – High school sports announcer
Jay Brooks – High school sports announcer
Tyler Wilhelm – High school sports announcer/production
Nora Dugan – High school sports production
PROGRAM HOSTS
Kemosabi Joe Morning Drive 6 to 9am
Kemosabi Joe is a long-time radio name around Frederick County from back in the 70’s & 80’s. Before his move to Dallas-Ft. Worth to do mornings there, he was the Program Director and morning man for the Hot Rockin’, Hit Crankin’ Z-104 in Frederick for almost a decade. Kemo & his wife have lived all over the country from their meeting in North Carolina, to the days in Charlotte, then Augusta & Columbus, Ga, Columbia, SC, Tallahassee & Ocala/Gainesville, Florida, Myrtle Beach & Greenville-Spartanburg, SC, West Virginia, Reno, Nevada & probably a few other places he doesn’t want to admit to. Kemosabi Joe was a 2 TIME WINNER OF NATIONAL BOBBY POE POP MUSIC SURVEY’S NATIONAL SMALL MARKET D.J. OF THE YEAR AWARD AND SOUTH CAROLINA’S BROADCASTER’S ASSOCIATION LARGE MARKET AIR PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR WINNER, also while at Z-104, while Kemo was programming and was the Morning man, they won BILLBOARDS MAGAZINE’S STATION OF THE YEAR. For the last 20 years Kemo, his wife Donna, daughter & her husband live on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Loving the Oldies as much as anyone, he’s incredibly excited about playing them for everyone here in the four-state region on Cool Oldies 1450.
The Chazman Mid Morning Drive 9am to Noon
Chaz is a veteran actor with many projects including film, TV and commercial work. Chaz grew up in a small Maryland town where he began his acting career in a church play. That first role of “Billy” in A Christmas Tale, began his love of theater and acting. He is a decorated former active duty United States Marine, and currently the spokesperson for Marines at Camp Lejeune. Chaz begins his journey in radio here on Cool Oldies 1450 doing the mid-morning show weekdays 9am to 12noon
Fensty in the Afternoon 4 to 6pm
Mid Day with Jay Mid Day Noon to 3pm
Jay Lawrence comes to Cool Oldies THU with 20 years on-air at three different radios stations located in Gettysburg, Hanover and Frederick. Prior to music radio, Jay was with Metro Traffic Control either in a mobile unit or airplane reporting traffic conditions around the Baltimore region. When not at his “Midday with Jay” post weekdays from noon to 3pm, he serves his community as an EMT both as a volunteer and assignments as a member of a FEMA Ambulance Strike Team responding to natural disasters as requested by state and federal authorities. Jay and his wife Cathy reside in Carroll County with their two cats Mikey and Crystal and also enjoy visiting with family especially the six grandchildren. Jay also serves as a Board of Directors member for the National EMS Museum. Jay’s goal is for the listening audience to enjoy his three hours of great oldies favorites while also having fun with some humor and and other interesting information.
The Timinator Afternoon Drive 3 to 6pm
Tim brings a fun, exciting energy to COOL Oldies 1450. Tim comes to us from weekends on WFRE in Frederick. Many Frederick listeners remember Tim as FREBEE the WFRE Country radio station mascot at remote events all over the region. Tim was on WMZQ country radio in 2013. Tim lives at home with his six year old dog Dottie and his cat Cynder. Tim is a huge Karaoke guy and a big Washington Capitals fan who plays organized hockey himself.
Gene Reid Muscles of Soul Sat. 3pm
Gene was born and raised in the Pittsbugh PA area . He was a radio DXer and his favorite hobby was picking up the signals of the large 50,000 clear channel stations at night. During the 50’s and 60’s Pittsburgh was a fertile breeding ground for oldies and doo wop music. Gene developed a passion for this music and lived with it, ate with it, and slept with it. As an adult, he decided he wanted to MC his own radio show. After receiving his Master of Public Administration (MPA) from American University in 2003, he landed his first broadcasting job at WPFW in Washington DC. He is currently on the radio every Saturday at 3pm on COOL Oldies 1450’s Muscles of Soul.
Nick Brady The Brady Brunch 10am to 2pm
Nick, born in Baltimore, spent his teenage years in Littlestown, PA. where he graduated high school many, many years ago. Upon graduating from college, he taught foreign languages in the Carroll County, MD school system. He left teaching school to fulfill his military obligation and then was a Maryland State Trooper, retiring in 2003 with thirty-three years of service. After retirement he taught criminal and constitutional law at a York County high school. It was during this time that he got the chance to do what he had dreamed of doing ever since he was a teenager. He took a job as a part-time board operator and on-the-air radio personality at AM 1320 WGET in Gettysburg. He stayed with the station until it stopped local broadcasting, becoming a satellite-fed sports network. He also was the owner of the Grease Release Disc Jockey Company a mobile DJ service, focusing on music from the fifties and sixties, providing musical entertainment for wedding receptions, reunions, anniversaries and other parties. Nick’s hobby is collecting 45 rpm records. The first record in his collection was Elvis Presley’s Hound Dog and Don’t Be Cruel. His brother, Grady Brady, gave him that record for Christmas in 1956, when Nick was in the third grade. Nick and his wife, Sadie live in York, PA.
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