WXIN alumni

[wknd92]

Let's run down a brief list from the top of my head:

Tony Mascaro-MD WPLJ FM NY
Davey Morris-MD WPRO-FM Providence
Chris Tyler-APD/MD WXKS-FM Boston
Matt Allen-WPRO-AM Producer
John Depetro-WPRO-AM Middays
Bill George-PD WHJJ-AM Providence
Mike Montecalvo-Mornings WPRI TV
Mike Gonsalves (Dr Metal) WHJY-FM (R.I.P.)
TJ Napp-now Tony Banks-Tony Banks Productions (formerly Pro-FM, Y100 Miami)
Heartless Jim Braboy-WWLI-FM
DJ Venom-club spinner supreme-plays Hell a lot
Ted Edwards-Formerly WPRO-FM
Dave Anthony-formerly Johnny Thunder-Kix 106 (still can be heard doing VO work in the area)
Steve Pascale-WPRI TV

I am having brain cramp at the moment as I am coming up lame on others (but I know they are out there)....anyone got additions to the list?

 

[riradio02842]

As for currently active folks:

Tim Staskiewicz - WHJJ Producer for Helen Glover
Nancy Hall - Q105 New London - Morning Co-host
Mike Roberts - Program Director, WCRN Worcester

Folks MIA / No longer in the business:

Ben Casey: Former Hot/Kix 106 Part Timer
Jay Walker: Former Hot/Kix 106 Part Timer
Steve Bannon (I forgot his on air name, may have been "Static": Former Hot/Kix 106 Part Timer

There was also a girl working for Hot 106 a few years ago, I can't remember her name (I know, vague...) that I think doing daytime on Hot 106.

On a side note, isn't Dave Anthony (Schiano) also the GM over at 88.1 WELH?

As for me, I too am a WXIN alum. The farthest I got was being Art Spencer's impersonator on Sat nights at Lite 105 before I ran away screaming and realizing a career in radio wasn't in my best interests. One time I got to record the weather forecast for the Sunday overnight. Boy was that fun :-D

 

[riradio02842]

There was also a girl working for Hot 106 a few years ago, I can't remember her name (I know, vague...) that I think doing daytime on Hot 106.

Marie Cristal was the Hot 106 FT that I was missing the name of. Keep the list rollin... :-D

 

[2turntablesnmicrophone]

Laurie Johnson - Former WPRO-AM News Assignment Editor/Reporter... She writes for the Warwick Beacon newspaper now I believe...
and I'm not sure of this one: (she's a RIC grad but may or may not have done XIN) Jessica Schiano - formerly of the Coast Morning Crew with Joannie - now mid-days on ProFM by way of Hot106

 

[JLOontheRadio]

Thanks for the post. It was cool to see how many people passed through WXIN. I currently have a show there. I know Tim Staskiewicz still helps out there...ha, he was trying to fix the phone lines during my show a few months ago.

Anyways, I know XIN has been the starting point to a lot of peoples careers but I didnt really know who exactly so thanks again for the list. Now, hopefully I can make the same list in a few years!

 

[rolandjames]

Wow i always wondered what happened to cc cain and Heartless... ???

 

[riradio02842]

Thanks for the post. It was cool to see how many people passed through WXIN. I currently have a show there. I know Tim Staskiewicz still helps out there...ha, he was trying to fix the phone lines during my show a few months ago.

Anyways, I know XIN has been the starting point to a lot of peoples careers but I didnt really know who exactly so thanks again for the list. Now, hopefully I can make the same list in a few years!

Yes WXIN seems to have launched more radio careers than other college stations in our area. It's shame they're stuck with a webcast and campus coverage rather than a true FM NCE frequency. The RIC administration dropped that ball many many years ago...

 

[wknd92]

Probbaly because the money and/or frequency wasn't there...and when they tried to get up and get the 88.1 frequency before Wheeler, they had the guy running the Dining Center as their adviser as opposed to someone in the Communications Dept.

The carrier current boxes are all still in the dorms (except Sweet Hall and the new one) and we tried everythig we could think of the get a little more juice out of the stick....just couldn't do it...(actually gave a thought of putting it on top of Brown Hall at one point and running a marti shot to it from the Student Union.....that lasted about 12 minutes when we found out how much it would cost......we did get the now old; but new at the time) board in the studio when I was there and thanks to Geoff Rainville (former Duffy Egan/Jeff Lalimere asst engineer) got it wired and running in 2 days.....

 

[riradio02842]

Probbaly because the money and/or frequency wasn't there...and when they tried to get up and get the 88.1 frequency before Wheeler, they had the guy running the Dining Center as their adviser as opposed to someone in the Communications Dept.

The carrier current boxes are all still in the dorms (except Sweet Hall and the new one) and we tried everythig we could think of the get a little more juice out of the stick....just couldn't do it...(actually gave a thought of putting it on top of Brown Hall at one point and running a marti shot to it from the Student Union.....that lasted about 12 minutes when we found out how much it would cost......we did get the now old; but new at the time) board in the studio when I was there and thanks to Geoff Rainville (former Duffy Egan/Jeff Lalimere asst engineer) got it wired and running in 2 days.....

From what I've been told, all the carrier current boxes have been removed and disposed of, during the last set of renovations on the dorms that were done a few years ago. I think all the boards are Wheatstone's now. Production has a Mackie 24 channel mixing board. The station isn't even in the Student Union anymore, they moved over to the new "Student Media Center", which is what used to be the Donovan Snack Bar, when the Student Union was renovated a few years back. They ran conduit from the student union over to the new studios, and we snaked some cabling through. In addition, all the new studios have fiber connections, so in the event the transmitter/antenna needed to be moved, we could use fiber to send it to a different building (such as Brown).

 

[LA_Guy]

I tried to put WXIN on three different frequencies...a share time on 91.3, 90.5 and 88.1. At one point they also had an application filed for 89.3 (this was over 20 years ago-long before Umass).

Each time the moron President there caved to pressure and wimped out. 90.5 because of URI (first adjacent), 88.1 because channel 6 called her and 91.3, I don't know why...

I don't believe there are any frequencies left for them (except perhaps a VERY narrow 100 watt directional on 90.5).

 

[JohnnyHeadphones]

Tom 'The Bomb' of Hot 106 was an XIN alum too I beleive. Think he ended up in Connecticut.

 

[and.u.r?]

Tom 'The Bomb' of Hot 106 was an XIN alum too I beleive. Think he ended up in Connecticut.

Then to STAR in Boston and KKB for a while but now he weekends on Coast as Tom Stewart.

 

[JohnnyVanilla]

I did a morning show on WXIN with Mike Roberts (circa 2001). Good times!