WVOX - Notable Past Programming

Notable Past Programming

  • Bill Mazer - Following his departure from WEVD in 2001, the sportscaster known as the "A-Maz-In" Bill Mazer launched an afternoon interview program on WVOX, which aired from 3–6 PM ET (and streamed from WVOX's website), with his son Arnie serving as producer. Mazer's last show was aired August 3, 2009, ending his tenure at the station and marking his retirement from broadcasting.
  • Emergency Preparedness & Safety Tips On Air and Online - Host/Producer Lisa Tolliver (a volunteer/media partner with Westchester Emergency Volunteer Reserves-Medical Reserve Corps and winner of multiple media awards) and WEVR-MRC Manager Marianne Partridge earned kudos from United States Surgeon General Richard Carmona for regularly publicizing emergency preparedness and safety tips on Tolliver's WVOX radio shows, and for extending their outreach by publishing articles online in an "Emergency Preparedness & Safety Tips" blog and in Tolliver's Blogcritics Magazine articles. Tolliver and Partridge often featured interviews with emergency management professionals (such as New Rochelle Fire Captain Bobby Benz) and celebrities (such as Flavor Flav). They typically targeted their messages to coincide with current events and holidays, such as fireworks safety on Independence Day and hurricane safety during the June–November hurricane season, or guest-specific issues, such as earthquake safety, when interviewing West Coast resident, Flavor Flav. Tolliver and Partridge's partnership ended in 2007, when Partridge changed careers. Tolliver discontinued the series later in 2008, after collaborating for a short time with Partridge's replacement at WEVR-MRC.
  • Environmentally Sound - Environmentalist and "Renaissance Man" Bob Lebensold hosts this talk show every two weeks, addressing a variety of topics with guests from various arenas, ranging from Neil DeGrasse Tyson to Lynn Margulis and Captain Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and discussing such topics as the arts, politics, science, environmental affairs, and current events.
  • MoneyTalk - The team of Charlie Massimi, Brad Silverman and Michael Braithwaite presided over this long-running financial discussion show, which began on WVOX in the mid-80s, later moved over to sister station WRTN (now WVIP), and moved back to WVOX in March 2011 before leaving both stations altogether in December of that year.
  • SCORE: Counselors to America's Small Business - SCORE Chapter 306 in White Plains/Westchester County, New York broadcast a long-running show that addressed issues associated with starting, financing, and running a small business and that sometimes featured SCORE Success Stories and case studies involving local clients. The show was produced and hosted by a rotating team of volunteer business experts, such as former SCORE-Westchester chairman Robert D'Agostino and SCORE volunteers Chuck Auerbach, Murray Maizner, and Lisa Tolliver.
  • T3: Trends, Tips & Tools for Everyday Living - appealing to technophobes and technophiles, alike, Lisa Tolliver and a rotating panel of co-hosts and guests profiled and critiqued high-tech as well as low-tech resources; shared do's and don'ts (e.g., for safely shopping online and using wireless hotspots); evaluated trends (such the proliferation of distance learning courses and social media tools); addressed lifestyle topics (such as e-cards and useful tools for making Thanksgiving dinner); and weighed the benefits of well-designed/well-implemented resources versus challenges created by poorly designed/poorly implemented ones. For example, in August 2007 media futurist Gerd Leonhard discussed the opportunities and challenges associated with launching Sonific: Soundtracks For Your Digital Life and with T3's team evaluated such music services from multiple perspectives. (Leonhard "pulled Sonific's plug" in May 2008).
  • What's Goin' On - After his character, Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero, was killed on The Sopranos (in "Funhouse (The Sopranos)"), actor Vincent Pastore launched, and briefly hosted, a talk radio show featuring celebrities and celebrity news. Days before his show's 2004 launch, Pastore "guested" on Dennis Nardone's golden oldies show, at which time he met fellow talk show host, Lisa Tolliver. Pastore and Tolliver shared a photo op and cheek kiss, and on the eve of her next broadcast, Tolliver received an email from the station brass indicating that Pastore's new show had preempted the time slots of her back-to-back shows (SCORE Radio, The Lisa Tolliver Show, and T3: Trends, Tips & Tools for Everyday Living), which would be rescheduled. Tolliver quipped about this development on air, and her comments - quoted in Celebsafari: Vinny ("Big P") Pastore+Lisa ("Little L") Tolliver—The Story Behind the Photo read - "Beware of kisses from "made" men. shows got whacked to new time slots. No sleeping with the fishes, though. Vinny's short run as a radio host benefitted everyone at Whitney Radio."

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