Chuck Halbach / Deejay personality

    Listening to an AM radio in the kitchen of the home where I was raised, was a part of my everyday life from as young as I can remember. I can remember waking up to the AM station that my parents would turn on before I got out of bed. We listened to WNEW-AM that played big bands, Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald etc, which became part of my everyday life. At around the age of 4 years old, I was in front of the TV when the Beatles made an appearance on Ed Sullivan and my reactions were so positive and reactionary (l mimicked that I wes playing guitar) that might family was astounqeq in a good way. This led to my family giving me the peatle albums as they were released and soon enough, I was a>le to play/0sten to them on my record player. I guess that was the start of my love affair with popular music.

Fast forward to the late 1960’s/1970’s, radio became the main source of discovery/listening to music and I was all in with all the great radio stations that popped up through the years. I started listening to the Top 25 popular music stations, then moved on to Rock and Roll Stations with varying playlists and styles. Some of the call letters were CBS FM, WPLJ and WNEW FM, just to name a few. When it was time for me to choose a major at William Paterson College, I chose Communications to be a Disc Jockey. I received my degree, but I never followed my Major, as life just did not lead me that way.

Making my way through the 1990’s I saw that the way music was listened to started to change, commercial radio was out and Napster/streaming were in. I found myself listening to listener supported radio stations and they are still the place I go to experience new music and find artists that I may have missed through the years. Some of the call letters are WFUV, WFMU, 90.5 The Night, WXPN, but my favorite was WNTI through the station’s change to internet radio. While chatting with my friend Mike Watterston, he suggested that I apply for an on air slot at the statipn. As I have followed his recommendation, am realizing that this feels the right time to rekindle my love of radio and finally giving myself a shot at being a Ddisc jockey for my own program titled “Hit That Note”, show that celebrates music of all types and genres, put being a bit biased to Rock and Roll.