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I hope it's not a cliché to
say this, but every day is like a dream come true these days. I got married in
July of this year to my beautiful wife Katie, and we're enjoying every single
day together. Someone who has been married for over 50 years told me this: "Jon,
after over fifty years of marriage, I feel like my wife and I are still on the
honeymoon. If you want a successful marriage, don't ever leave that honeymoon
phase." That's my plan, and so far so good!
I was born and raised in Port
Huron, Michigan, and I've lived in Michigan my entire life. I was fortunate
enough to grow up in a family where, as a kid, my parents always made sure my
sisters and I were in church every Sunday morning. I have so many great
childhood memories of Sunday School, hockey at McMorran Arena, and bike rides
with my dad down to Diana's Ice Cream Parlor in downtown Port Huron. As
wonderful as life was, though, it still had its rough patches. When I was just
six years old, we found ourselves homeless and without our mother after she died
in a house fire. The house burned to the ground, and my mom didn't make it out.
Even through that time, though, God really provided for my family. People from
our church took us in to live with them. People who I still to this day call
"Auntie" and "Uncle Roger" let us live with them for over six months, and really
made us a part of their family. Through them, and through many other caring
people, God helped me and my family heal. Today, my dad, and my sisters, and I
are all doing wonderfully, and it's because of the way God and His people came
to our aid.
I've been doing radio for
about 10 years now, since I was in high school. A great teacher named Mrs.
Storey convinced me that I should give radio a try, and boy am I glad I listened
to her! I started out as an intern at WSAQ, a country station in Port Huron,
where I worked for a fantastic morning host named Brian Harper. Even as I
finished high school and went off to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, I
would still come home every summer and work on the radio. After college, I was
offered a job on a morning show at WPHM in Port Huron, which I did until I came
to WMUZ in March 2005.
I love being at WMUZ! The people I work with are wonderful, and you listeners
are just amazing. You are truly like family to me. Through some good times and
some hard times, so many of you have been there with me, and I'm grateful for
every single one of you.
Thank you, and God bless you!
Jon
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Shannyn has been on the air for all of her
working career-beginning at the age of 15 in her home town of Iron Mountain
Michigan .
After graduating with a BFA in Acting from
Wright State University Shannyn worked as an on-air producer, side-kick and
announcer, as well as a company member with Cincinnati Children's Theatre and a
local magazine and newspaper writer.
She moved to Detroit in 1995 and spent the
next 5 years of her radio career as the Midday Traffic reporter of WWJ and a
part-timer announcer for 93.9 the River and then Q95.5.
Her radio management experience includes
serving as the Program Director of Ann Arbor's 107.1 and the Asst. PD/Music
Director of Oldies 104.3 WOMC. She's spent nearly 5 years with Greater Media,
working primarily with Magic 105.1.
Shannyn continues to work as a freelance
writer and stand-up comic. She's a wife and mom of the dearest family in the
world and is thrilled to join Jon Culbert and her new radio family at WMUZ.
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