I was born and raised in Lockport, Illinois and attended Providence Catholic High School. I attended the University of Illinois at Chicago and received his B.A. in Communications in 2003. I interned at WGN-TV before taking a position as Program Director of KNIA/KRLS in Knoxville, Iowa. I spent two years in Iowa and married my wife, Devon, in August of 2006. I joined the WCSJ/WJDK news team as News Director in August of 2007.
I am a huge Chicago White Sox and Oakland Raiders fan. Originally, I wanted to become a zoologist, but ran into a roadblock in college called Advanced Chemistry. It was then I turned my efforts to radio.
My uncle, Joe Starkey, is the play-by-play voice of the San Francisco 49ers. You may know him from his famous call during a Cal/Stanford football game, when the band ran out on the field at the end of the game: “THE BAND IS ON THE FIELD!” From my other side of the family is my uncle, Dan Capron, is a Big Ten Football referee.
My favorite movies are Major League, Good Fellas, The Godfather Series, Rounders, and Lonesome Dove.
My favorite pastimes are walking with my wife, and our dog, a Weimaraner named Slater, fishing, camping, going to my parents’ property on the lake in Varna, and spending time with family and friends.
