Frank Nelson, Jazz Host, Engineer, and Operations Manager at the Satellite Studio on Jefferson Avenue in the early 1970s, worked as an engineer in commercial radio in Boston for two decades. He is currently a Satellite Technician at National Public Radio in Washington, DC.

Howard Nelson, WBFO overnight classical music host in the 1980s.

Rich Newman, WBFO staffer in the early 1990s.

Corey Nieman, WBFO intern in the late 1990s.

Jim Nowicki, WBFO music host and producer in the 1980s, has worked at many Western New York radio stations, and with the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority in Buffalo.



Lisa Olson, WBFO bluegrass/country host in the early 1980s.

Ed O'Reilly, WBFO folk music host in the 1970s.

Kevin O'Shaughnessy, WBFO staffer in the early 1990s.

Larry Osolkowski, WBFO engineer/control board operator in the late 1960s; Larry built the Heathkit shortwave receiver used to rebroadcast BBC News live on WBFO, and helped wire new studios in Norton Hall. Larry is now a computer engineer in Tonawanda.

Mickey Osterreicher, WBFO control board operator in the late 1960s, was a photographer for the old Buffalo Courier-Express newspaper, and currently works as a cameraman for WKBW-TV Channel 7 in Buffalo. He is a graduate of the University at Buffalo Law School.



Jim Palermo, WBFO Station Manager in the early 1960s, went on to several Buffalo-area broadcasting positions, working on-air for WJJL-AM, WADV-FM, and WKBW-TV (Channel 7). He was Promo the Robot and Pail Mac on Rocketship 7; he also wrote and appeared on the Fright Night Late Show, as The Ghoul, and worked in Traffic and Promotion. At WBEN-AM-FM-TV (Channel 4), he was a promotion manager and account executive, while completing a degree at UB's evening division. In 1968 he joined the National Labor Relations Board, and rose to Assistant to the Regional Director in Buffalo. He retired in July 2003, and now lives in Northampton MA.

Ann Pearce, WBFO commentator in the 1990s, is a writer who has moved from Buffalo to Los Angeles. Her commentaries are still heard from time to time on WBFO's Listener Commentary segment on Tuesday mornings.

John Penney, WBFO jazz host in the 1970s and 1980s, became a jazz radio host at NPR member station WDET in Detroit.

Greg Perla, pioneer WBFO jazz host in the 1960s, is now an attorney in Buffalo.

Ann Marie Plubell, classical music programmer 1969-1972, is now an attorney in Washington, DC.

David Posner, WBFO arts programmer when the station began broadcasting January 6th, 1959, host of the program Poetry Room.

Marc Poulin, WBFO computer programmer in the early 1990s.

Mike Powers, WBFO control board operator in the 1970s and 1980s.

Bud Ralabate, co-host of the WBFO oldies show When Rock Was Young in the mid 1970s (died September 1985).

Toni Randolph, WBFO News Director and local Morning Edition host in the early 1990s, went on to become a correspondent for NPR affiliate WBGO-FM in Newark, and is now a reporter at NPR affiliate WBUR-FM in Boston.

Ishmael Reed, WBFO jazz host when the station began broadcasting January 6th, 1959, host of the program Jazz In Commentary.

Allan Resman, WBFO jazz and classical music host and Assistant Music Director in the late 1960s, is now a physical therapist in Amherst.

J. R. Ried, WBFO staffer in the early 1960s, went on to a longtime career in Western New York commercial radio.

Dan Rigney, WBFO staffer in the early 1990s, worked at HallWalls Gallery in Buffalo for a time.

Mike Riley, local WBFO Morning Edition host in the early 1980s, is now an air personality at WJYE-FM in Buffalo.

Amy Roberts, WBFO marketing and development associate and intern in the early 1990s, served as Marketing Director for the public broadcasting newspaper Current for a time after leaving WBFO.

Sharon Roberts, WBFO Business Manager from 1991 to 1997.

Mary Ann Rogers, WBFO Director of Membership in the early 1990s, is now Associate Dean for Development in the University at Buffalo School of Law.

John Romer, WBFO's first Station Manager when the station began broadcasting January 6th, 1959.

Steve Rosenthal, WBFO music host in the 1970s and early 1980s, is a founding member and Executive Director of the Amherst Saxophone Quartet, which celebrated its 20th anniversary during 1998.

Ron Ross, WBFO rock music producer in the early 1980s.

Sheryl Ross, WBFO Development Director in the early 1980s.

Bob Rossberg, WBFO jazz host from 1977 until his passing May 5 1996. Bob was a longtime administrator and teacher at the University at Buffalo, and his big band show Sound of Swing, produced at WBFO, was nationally distributed by National Public Radio during the 1980s. Bob's programs were so well done that they continued to air on WBFO thorough July 2000. In addition, we are grateful to Bob's wife Mary for the 1997 donation of his jazz record collection to WBFO.

Harry Rossen, WBFO sportscaster when the station began broadcasting January 6th 1959.

Gus Russo, jazz host and producer on WBFO in the late 1960s and early 1970s, is now a photographer and musician.



Dan Sack: From 1967-1971, Dan was a WBFO engineer and control board operator, who produced taped and live lectures and concerts for broadcast; he also coordinated design and wiring of new WBFO studios in Norton Hall, and with Cliff Stoll installed the remote "Studio J" on Jefferson Avenue for regular broadcasts from Buffalo's African-American community. In 1977-1978, he mixed WBFO's live jazz concert series from the old Tralfamadore Cafe on Main Street, and in 1982, he designed and supervised construction and wiring of the WBFO studios returning to Baird (now Allen) Hall. Dan lives in Buffalo, and is now a freelance sound mixer (Pataphysics) for network television news and news magazine programs.

Fred and Arlene Sandner: Fred was a WBFO music programmer in the late 1960s; Arlene produced children's programming for WBFO in the early 1970s; both are now librarians in Rockland County New York.

Robert SanGeorge: a WBFO news producer from 1972-75, and in 1974-75 covered for NPR the trials of inmates involved with the Attica Prison riot. He now works for the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, as director of a global campaign to eliminate the worst forms of child labor.

Rich Schaefer (brother of Rob Schaefer), WBFO bluegrass host in the early 1980s, is leader of the Western New York based bluegrass band Creek Bend.

Rob Schaefer (brother of Rich Schaefer), WBFO jazz host and Operations Director in the early 1980s, went on to the Mutual Radio network in suburban Washington, DC, and to National Public Radio in Washington.

Todd Schlesinger, WBFO student assistant in the late 1980.

Eric Schoenfeld, WBFO news correspondent from 1969 to 1973 (he covered the Attica prison riots for WBFO in 1971), later became a television news producer for Buffalo stations WKBW Channel 7 and WGRZ Channel 2, and stations in Baltimore and Philadelphia. In 1989 he moved to ESPN to help create the program "Baseball Tonight;", later becoming General Manager of ESPN Radio, after serving as Senior Coordinating Producer of the network's web site.

Wayne Schuck, WBFO administrative assistant in the early 1990s.

Linda Scrivens, WBFO music host in the early 1990s.

Jim Sexton, WBFO news staffer in the early 1980s.

Peggy Shanahan, WBFO marketing and development associate and intern in the early 1990s.

Dr. Miriam Shuchman, NPR commentator for Weekend Edition Sunday in the mid 1990s, is a UB medical professor.

Bill Siemering, WBFO General Manager from 1962 to 1970, became National Public Radio's first program director, and created NPR's All Things Considered in 1971, based on the 1960's WBFO program This Is Radio.

Bob Sikorski, WBFO General Manager from 1980 to 1986, and host of the Broadway/Hollywood program SoundStage, is now director of the Radio Reading Service in Buffalo.

David F. Simon, assistant chief engineer for WBFO from 1971 to 1973 (UB School of Management, 1974), is now the chief legal officer for Aetna U.S. Healthcare, the largest health and related benefits company in the United States. Dave and Fred Jacobowitz helped start UB's Carrier Current AM station WIRR.

Abby Sinnott, WBFO volunteer in 1997, is now in San Francisco.

Tim Sledziewski, WBFO newscaster and Weekend Edition host in the mid 1980s.

Stan Sluberski, host of A Polka Sunday With Friends on WBFO from 1978 until 1993 (died October 12, 1997 at age 49).

Clip Smith, UB Bulls football play by play announcer on WBFO in the mid 1980s, worked for many years as a television sportscaster on WKBW Channel 7, and as a talk show host on WGR-AM and WBEN-AM in Buffalo.

Ed Smith, WBFO jazz host in the 1970s and 1980s.

Les Solomon, WBFO classical music host in the 1970s.

David Sommerstein, WBFO producer in the mid 1990s, is now at North Country Public Radio in Canton New York, after serving as Program Director of NPR affiliate KRZA-FM, "Relevant Radio" for Alamosa, Colorado and Taos, New Mexico.

Phil Sottile, WBFO blues and folk music host in the early 1980s. Phil currently lives in Bellingham Washington, and is guitarist for the regional band Twang Factor 4.

Martin Spinelli, WBFO news staffer, and local host of Weekend Edition in the early 1990s. After leaving WBFO, Martin earned his PhD through UB's English Department. Since producing the LINEbreak literary series first heard on WBFO, Martin has continued to produce innovative radio heard on the ABC (Australia), the BBC, and on independent and networked stations throughout Europe and North America. The best of these have been included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and Los Angeles. Martin also publishes and lectures on media and radio art.

Ed Sporn, WBFO newscaster in the late 1960s (UB Geography BA 1972), is now vice president of Administration for D. E. Shaw and Company, an investment bank in New York City, and lives in Pelham New York with his wife and two children. Ed writes, "I worked at WBFO as a newscaster and newsman in 1968 and 1969. I would introduce the BBC news at 6 and then follow-up with the local and national news off the wires. My two most significant memories were reading the 1968 election results -- when Nixon beat Humphrey -- and covering the Gov. Rockefeller's groundbreaking of the Amherst campus. I wandered over to the governor, microphone in hand to get an interview. I was set upon by a state trooper who hit me in the stomach with his nightstick. I was wearing press tags at the time, but all the trooper saw was some bearded long-hair approaching the governor. Rockefeller was quite solicitous when things were sorted out and gave me a 30 second interview."

C. G. "Kayo" Stolarski, WBFO engineer in the 1970s and early 1980s, went on to become Chief Engineer at NPR member station KLON in Long Beach California, where he was assisted by another WBFO alumnus, Wally Gajewski (Kayo died June 30 1995 at age 47)

Cliff Stoll, WBFO's Assistant Chief Engineer in the early 1970s, is now an astronomer, author (The Cuckoo's Egg, Silicon Snake Oil, and High Tech Heretic), entrepreneur and computer expert in Berkeley California.

Gary Storm, WBFO music host in the 1970s (Oil of Dog), went to the old WZIR-FM in Buffalo in the early 1980s, and is now an attorney in Santa Fe New, Mexico.

Carol Anne Stripple, WBFO news staffer in the mid 1980s.

Frank Sundram, WBFO staffer in the early 1970s, is currently manager of public radio station WKGC in Panama City Florida.

Gail Marks Sutton, WBFO administrative assistant in the late 1980s, and Vinyl Madness coordinator in the mid 1990s.

Next Page

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z