WEEKDAY MORNINGS WITH TIM AND CHRISTI

Christi Nichols is not a radio name. I was born with it. My married name is that of an office supply store that just doesn't have the same ring to it. Five years! That's how long I've been married. I made a great choice. My little girl Julia is lucky to have such a Dad. Especially since I'm up and out the door by 4:30 most mornings. I've been lucky to be doing the morning show with Tim Daugherty for the last three years. He's fun to work with, obviously knowledgeable on the subject of rock and roll and a great friend. Saw him at a bowling alley and he said there was an opening on his show. "No way," I told him. But here we are! I try to think about who's got the radio on and what they're doing that morning. Are their kids listening, too? And what's completely over the line versus just a fun play on words? Keep in mind my parents are listening, too. I'm a weird product of both PK (preacher's kid) and single mom survival lessons. Not to mention 7 sibs. You better speak up or get run over. E-mail Christi: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

They say radio is not a profession as much as it is an incurable disease and radio people are said to be inoculated with a phonograph needle at birth so it is no wonder I wanted to get into radio at an early age. I came to Akron to be part of the original air staff at WONE in 1985. I did mid days and was the first proprietor of the Cafe Rock Request Hour. Some of you still remember my days as the TV 23 Weatherman but I was still doing part time radio with WONE and later, WMMS. In 1994, I would once again be woven back into the full time fabric of WONE and in 2003, I became the host of Your Morning Show, and that's where you can find me today. Along with Christi Nichols, we wake up Akron with just the right amount of news, weather, traffic, sports and of course classic rock. Weekday afternoons, tune into my oldies show our AM sister station 1590 WAKR. E-mail Tim: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

MIDDAYS WITH SANDRA MILLER

Dude, I love bread. I also share a deep intimacy with chocolate and cookies it's probably because I spent a great deal of my childhood working behind the counter of my parent's bakery, Bon Ton Bakery. Yeah, that little bakery across from Ritzman Elementary (and what used to be Burger Chef) on Canton Rd. in Ellet. Im a 1995 graduate of Ellet High School and yeah, I wasa band geek. After bopping around a bit; the fam and I once again call Ellet home. I started in radio as a student volunteer at 89.1 WAPS at the- oh so tender age of 14. I did one 4-hour shift a week.

The station went on the air at 8am and signed off at 8pm every night. Now it's known as 91.3 The Summit and, well, let's just say it's come a long way. After four years of working for free, they finally gave me a part-time gig and I stayed on until moving to WONE. I started as a weekend and overnight part-timer and ended up taking over the 7pm-midnight shift six months later. I've been rocking your nights on WONE for a decade now- man does that make you feel as old as it does me?
In 2001, I married my high school sweetheart, Jason (awww). Together we have three of the most beautiful children I've ever seen, but I'm in no way partial. Our son's name is Coen, and the girls are Ravenna and LilyAnn. Ravenna, by the way is named after Ravenna Micelli. I used to listen to her on WMJI with my dad as a kid and would say, "That's what I want to do someday." It's a memory that has always stuck with me, and a tribute to my dad in my own sort of way since he's no longer with us.
When I'm not rockin' your world, you'll find me making mud pies and playdoh creations. You know, little neon green busts of John Lennon, and such. My biggest weakness has to be those stupid makeover shows! Ah, I'm addicted home makeovers, clean house makeovers, style and hair makeovers it doesn't matter! I know it's so unrock and roll, but I'm still the coolest person I know. E-mail Sandra: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

PM DRIVE WITH TK O'GRADY

A lot of people don't realize that I am originally from Mexico. That's right, a blond (more gray & white now), blue eyed, Irish-Mexican. Well the Irish part is right, however, I am not a Mexican...I am a Mexicoan. I was born and raised in the city of Mexico, MISSOURI. About 100 miles due west of St. Louis and a town, when I was growing up, of about 11,000 people, whose main industry was firebrick plants (Cape Canaveral launch pads are lined with it), saddle horses, farming and as my Dad would say, "beautiful women".

My Dad owned and operated an IGA Grocery Store and it was the major grocery store for the entire region. I started carrying out customers bags when I was eight at the whopping salary of fifty cents an hour. It was a great learning experience, because no matter how rich or how poor you were, you had to come to the grocery store and I think that's one of the main reasons I like people so much. When I reached my senior year in High School, there was an elective called "Radio & Television" where the class produced and performed two live twenty-five minute radio shows a week and one local "cable tv" school news program per week. I fell in love with radio right then and there (although I do have a cassette tape of me imitating Daytona Beach DJ's when I was 13 years old and on vacation with my parents).

2008 marks my thirty-sixth year as a PAID Disc Jockey. I started at the hometown stations, KXEO/KWWR-FM, as a part time DJ on June 2nd, 1972, right after High School Graduation. Radio has taken me to Chicago, Miami, Charleston, South Carolina and a few other smaller markets and I've programmed and been a DJ at Top 40, Adult Contemporary and Hot AC stations.

My Rock Radio career began in 1993 and continues today. In my spare time you'll find me on the Golf course, in the kitchen or manning the grill. I was fortunate, I knew what I wanted to do when I was 17 years old and I am still doing it today! E-mail TK : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

EVENINGS WITH STEVE HAMMOND

I was born on an odd minute, of an odd hour, on an odd day, of an odd month, of an odd year. As far as I'm concerned that pretty much sums things up for my life. Steppenwolf might have been born to be wild, but I was born to be weird.

I spent the first eight years of my life on Oakwood Drive in Cuyahoga Falls before my parents bought a bigger housend moved us over to the east side of the Falls where I had a lot of "interesting" friends. We used to make homemade explosives so we could blow up models like The Ghoul did on TV.
The bombs kept getting bigger until we reached the point that we had to go into the local woods to blow things up. We're lucky we still have all our fingers.

After barely graduating from Cuyahoga Falls High School I held several stellar jobs making pizzas on North Hill in Akron, cleaning office buildings and toilets on Locust Street and running a machine for City Machine & Wheel in Stow.

In early April of 1980 I began classes at The Ohio School Of Broadcast Technique on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland. Despite the fact that a popular Cleveland disc jockey told me I was wasting my time and money I finished first in my class and took my first job at WERT in Van Wert, Ohio, doing the afternoon shift for about $100 a week, before taxes.
After Van Wert I worked in Kent, Lock Haven, Williamsport, Canton, Youngstown, Columbus, Cleveland, St. Louis and right here at WONE. Either I'm really good at what I do or I'm just good at getting radio stations to hire me. E-mail Steve: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it