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10 Questions with ... Tanch
October 15, 2019
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BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS:
First fulltime job was in 2006 doing nights on WAJZ in Albany before moving down the hall to take over nights and Imaging Director duties for WFLY. Made my triumphant return to WAJZ a few years later to become PD. After great success at Jamz, I took on the challenge of launching three new stations in the Albany market over the next three years - HOT 99.1, PopCrush 105.7 and 104.9 The Peak. While programming my stations in Albany, I was getting big market on-air experience by taking road trips to Boston for Saturday afternoons/holiday fill-in work at WODS, 103.3 AMP Radio. Shortly after launching The Peak I received the opportunity to take over as APD/MD/afternoons here at KHTP in Seattle. After holding down afternoons for three years, I made the move to middays about two years ago.
1) What got you into radio?
I enrolled at the New School of Radio and Television in Albany with the intentions of going into TV. Before classes started, I had a meeting with the school's director, Tom Brownlie, to learn about each of the programs offered. Something clicked when he broke down the radio program. I did the morning announcements at my high school, hosted talent shows, pep rallies and other big events. My high school experience prepared me for a career in radio and I didn't know it until that moment. It felt like destiny.
2) What did you dream of becoming when you were a kid?
The “I want to be that guy” person for me growing up was Regis Philbin. I've always aspired to do something in entertainment.
3) What was the biggest change in the move from Albany to Seattle?
The pace and the people. Where I'm from, there's an immense pressure to live to work. People in the Pacific Northwest work to live. It's refreshing.
4) Any trouble with the adjustment to the winter weather?
Seattle is not equipped or built to withstand winter weather. An inch or two of snow and the city shuts down. It hasn't snowed much in my five years, though so it's all good. I miss snowstorms but I don't miss driving in them.
5) What would probably surprise most people about Seattle?
It doesn't rain as much as you think. When it does, it's usually a light mist.
6) You're a Seattle transplant. Is there anything Seattle-specific that you've adopted?
I'm a huge sports fan. There aren't many bigtime college football programs in proximity to Albany so I never had a specific team I would actively root for. I've adopted the Washington Huskies football team as my own since I've been here. Go Dawgs!
7) If you weren't in radio, what do you think you'd be doing professionally?
Something extremely unfulfilling, I would imagine. I worked a ton of random jobs before landing in radio. Everything from pool boy to factory worker to waiter at TGI Fridays.
8) Who are/were some of your radio mentors?
I've been blessed to work with a lot of great programmers who have helped groom me over the years. Shout out to Terry O'Donnell, Kevin Callahan, Mike Preston, Eric Powers and Dave Richards.
9) If you could be on any TV reality show or game show, which would you want to be on?
Shark Tank for sure. 'Sup, Mr. Wonderful?
10) Have you become a Seattle professional sports team fan?
I'm a die-hard Knicks, Mets and Steelers fan. I support the Seattle teams, but wouldn't necessarily consider myself a “fan.” I root for them to win, as long as it isn't against the squads I grew up with.
Bonus Questions
The Voice, American Idol or The Four?
None of the above. I'm more of an America's Got Talent guy.
If you had to eat one type of meal every day for a month, what would it be?
I'm a total momma's boy. I has got to be mom's meatloaf.
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