Mark David Radio Bio: My Radio Broadcasting career began after attending "The New School Of Contemporary Radio" back in the fall of '92. A two day a week class for 6 months and in the spring of '93, I was employed! MY mentors were two outstanding Capital Region air talents, Shadow Michaels (aka Big Mike) and Julian Starr. Thanks guys for everything!! The very first radio station I went to work for was in Vermont. Every Sunday afternoon I would make the 90 minute road trip to be there by 5pm. My shift was 6pm to 1am and included a "teen show" from 7-8 (in which I acted the engineer). The format (AAA) was diferent everything(from Eagles to Robert Cray, Sarah McLachlan to REM, Dire Straits to Carole King) very eclectic! The people there were amazing to work with. My teeth were cut after two years of that and..... I began working at the legendary WABY! The first year there I stayed employed in Vermont. Sundays went like this: 6am to 12 noon at WABY and 6pm to 1am at WVAY (I was literally up for 22-23 hours straight every Sunday for 1 full year)-experience my boy, EXPERIENCE!! However, one February night leaving Vermont the snow fell by the buckets and I lost control of my '93 Probe on Searsberg mountain, did a 360, whacked a guard rail and that experience came to an end. Lucky, I was to make it through with just a minor scratch on my car and I would NOT return! (You see I took it as a sign.) Back to AM 1400 WABY, A Capital Region radio legend! In Sept. '95 I signed on as the Sat. & Sun. morning guy and by this point it was now 94.5 FM. "The Home Of The Greatest Melodies Of All Time" (Nat "King" Cole, Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis, Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow & Frank Sinatra). What made it unique was we played the "classics" but, new artists as well (LeAnn Rimes, Celine Dion & Diana Krall). Now, don't get me wrong I wasn't a fan of this music style early on. These days however, my amazingly large record collection includes almost all of them! For what it's worth, I truly believe that if NOT for WABY, my broadcasting career would've been brief, VERY BRIEF! The staff was made up of Albany's most trusted radio personalities (ie. David Allan & Steve Fitz). With each passing day, I learned more & more from everyone there. But, The Only Thing Constant In Life Is Change..... The cluster of stations (WABY-94.5 FM AM-1400 & K100-100.9/100.3) would be sold in the spring of '99. When Radio stations are sold, more than likely formats are changed so too, is the air-staff!!! True to these words, April of 1999, would birth a New station 100.9/100.3 The POINT. Most of the air-staff remained in tact and I stayed on good old 94.5. However, the oldies format was replaced with soft contemporary (welcome-Celine, BackStreet Boys & N' SYNC). By the time the holiday season rolled around, 94.5 would become K-Lite and I started doing Sun. mornings on the Point! For about one full year things remained unchanged and then......things would NEVER be the same for me!!! Looking to take a more active role in radio, I approached the powers that be about getting more hours in radio! The fall of 2000, I got my wish (more hours & more experience). As winter came blowin' in (Dec. 23, 2000), I hit pay dirt. I was offered my very first full-time air shift (7pm to Mid on 100.9/100.3-The Point). I did not officially start my new job until Jan. 22, 2001 (NO overnight success here)!! Now, DO NOT cheer just yet........ 'Cause strange how life just keeps repeatin' itself (allow me to explain).....August 27, 2001, the FCC received an application for two other broadcast companies to take control of the radio stations. YES, we've been sold AGAIN!!!! Well, I'm still in radio and this time around--LOOK OUT! On monday, October 29, 2001, I signed with The NEW 94 ROCK. Fans of Dokken, Dio, AC/DC, Ozzy, Sabbath, Scorpions, Triumph, Rush etc.....this is your radio station!!! Bob Mason is back in Albany, NY doing mornings, with a bunch of kick ass rock & roll 24/7. After nearly 9 years of radio, I finally landed my dream job. All I ever wanted to do, is play the music of those that I looked up to and what do you know......... ........And what do you know March 1, 2001 just 4 months later, I'm back to just part-time work in radio!! Ah, radio the fun NEVER ends does it?? It was a finacial decision on my part 'nuff said!! MD

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