Jock Bios

Chris grew up in Sunnyside, Queens and Northeastern, Pennsylvania. His first radio position was with a small Pennsylvania station. From there Chris held down a variety of positions from morning drive to talk show co-host to assistant news director at a variety of stations such as our own sister station WDHA, WVNJ AM and FM, Newark, WRFM, New York, and KXL AM and FM in Portland, Oregon. Chris has been the wake-up guy and operations Manager at WMTR for 16 years.

Chris, his wife, and their daughter live in Morris County. When not listening to Classic Oldies you’ll find Chris spending time with his family, attending classic car shows or antiquing.

Email: cedwards@wmtr-wdha.com

Ginny Sanchez is the newest member of the WMTR Fine and Mighty Air Staff. She brings a wide range of broadcasting experience to the Classic Oldies station.

Ginny started in the business at the top – New York City, where she produced programs at WNEW-FM. Along the way she also handled engineering duties at Sirius Satellite Radio, and she has also been an air talent at a local Oldies outlet.

Ginny is a lifelong, fifth-generation resident of New Jersey. This wife, mom, and “pet parent” is very into genealogy, origami, knitting, history and blogs!

You can check out her web site at www.ginnysanchez.com.

Of course you can always listen to Ginny on AM 1250 Classic Oldies WMTR every weekday from 10 AM until 1 PM – right in between Chris and the Morning Team, and Mark Mitchell.

Mark grew up loving Rock 'n' Roll music from listening to Top-40 radio in the 1960's. By the time he went to Seton Hall University, he was determined to make radio his career. Mark's first air shift was at the University's WSOU, becoming its Program Director in his senior year (and working with fellow WMTR personality Pete Tauriello -- small world!!)

Mark's professional broadcast career includes the positions of Program Director and air talent at WERA in Plainfield, New Jersey, WFAS AM and FM in Westchester. There have been many freelance stops along the way as well doing everything from Easy Listening at WRFM, New York (where he worked with the WMTR Morning Team's Chris Edwards), to Adult Contemporary at Mix 105 in New York and Greater Media's WMGQ in New Brunswick.

Most recently Mark has been a sports anchor on WCBS Newsradio in New York. He has been a fill-in host on Classic Oldies WMTR for 10 years, and is thrilled to be on every weeknight playing the Greatest Hits of All Time!

Mark is a Mark is a lifelong Union County resident, where he lives with his brother Dave, and Buck the Chihuahua, who rules the household, In his spare time, Mark can be found at many area classic car shows or "down the shore".

Bob “T-Bone” Williams Bob "T-Bone" Williams - your LESS STRESS traffic guy has been with the Classic Oldies Morning Team for many moons. T-Bone started with the Shadow Traffic Network in 1984 as a road reporter and producer, until that day in November 1986 when the regular traffic reporter for our sister station WDHA was late for her shift. T-BONE got the call! Since then he's reported on nearly every radio station in the NJ/NYC Metropolitan area. Bob lives in Morris County with his wife Kathleen and their three sons (Oh, and let's not forget the dog -- Herbie the love pup). Bob also works as a music host and has operated his own mobile disc jockey service for over 20 years. Check out his website : ttp://www.newjerseydj.com">www.newjerseydj.com

Steve Pellettiere has been forecasting and reporting the weather for WMTR since starting Ion Weather in 1975. Steve grew up in Hillside New Jersey and has always been fascinated with all things “UP”.

Steve’s love of Aviation, Astronomy, and Meteorology and his family is evident in every thing he does. A member of the American Meteorological Society, Air Force Association and American Meteor Society, steve also finds time to coach his young son Matthew, in Baseball and Soccer, and his oldest son, Steve Jr. in Meteorology, Business and Forensic Science . Lets not forget Sweet Sue!

Steve has been married to Sue Mulvaney since 1978. Sue runs “The Denville Therapeutic Massage Center” and Steve is one of here best customers! Steve gets his aches and pains nowadays from practicing Korean Tae Kwon Doe. Steve is a first degree Black belt and is actively training still. Guess he has to protect himself from all of those folks that “don’t like it when it snows!!”

Visit his web site at www.ionweather.com , and catch him on WMTR with the latest weather information. Email: reseach@ionweather.com

We don’t know much about Big Tom – he just showed up at our door one day with a stack of Drifters 45’s under his arm asking for directions to the nearest diner, and he’s been around ever since. As the host of Doo Wop Drive, Big Tom gets to play nothing but golden group sounds from the 50’s and 60’s every Friday night from 7 to 10 on WMTR, and he couldn’t be happier. Well he could, but engineering wouldn’t install a street corner lamp post in the studio (they were afraid that he would never leave).

Give Big Tom a call at 973-267-WMTR for your instant doo wop request, or drop him an email at bigtom@wmtram.com for an e-quest or just to say hi!

Julie Briggs, award winning television and radio interviewer, hosts "Your New Jersey Connection" and "Ask the Expert" on WMTR. A native of New Jersey, Julie is a political science graduate from Seton Hall University. She broadcast in San Diego and San Francisco and was formerly news anchor and news director of New Jersey Cable TV programs. She writes commercials for national accounts, does voice-overs, and is the mother of three boys. Email: julie@freesmedia.com

Award winning veteran New Jersey Broadcaster Jessie Frees has hosted numerous radio shows and has interviewed thousands of notable guests in her 37 year career. She hosts the interactive live call - in talk shows, "Ask the Expert" and "Your New Jersey Connection" on WMTR. A children's author, she is a mother of 3 and grandmother of 8. A political analyst and writer, she guest lectures around the state.