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April 16, 2019
10 Questions with ... Tony Katz1. The standard question to open with is: How and why did you get into radio? What appealed to you about doing radio?
My first ever hosting gig was on WWJB in Brooksville, FL. I was doing a presentation for a business networking group I belonged to, and station owner Barbara Manuel was there. She liked my style, and came up to me after and said, “I need you!” I filled in for a week on the morning show. After that, I started asking myself if this was a future I can see for myself. The answer was very clearly yes! It was then, it still is today.
2. When you moved into mornings at WIBC, it was a departure from the station's previous morning image, which was a lot more traditional. When you took over the shift, was there any concern that your more controversial and explicitly political style would encounter resistance? And to what do you attribute your fairly immediate success in mornings?
Change is never easy. And there were plenty of people who were questioning of my style and the direction change of the station. But, I wouldn’t say I am explicitly political. I’m very cultural in my conversations; how does subject ‘X’ affect all of us and why. Then, my politics comes in when I talk about solutions or responses. Even people who don’t align with my politics respect that I know the topics, that I’m presenting a point of view they can agree or disagree with and that I’m not yelling at them.
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