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Grevatt's overnight success was several years in the making If you want to hear what Jonathan Grevatt ('85) is up to, your best bet is to sample some of that graveyard-shift air in the Big Apple. |
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hosts the midnight to 5 a.m. slot at WAXQ-FM (a k a Q104 New York's
Only Classic Rock Station) in New York City on Friday and Saturday
nights. In the process, he's turned what was once a part-time hobby
into a career. "I have worked virtually every shift from the morning show to afternoon drive to overnights and middays," he said. "In addition to filling in on various shifts, I can be heard on lots of commercials at the station." Grevatt has worked at WAXQ-FM for three years. He's known as Jonathan Clarke on the air Ð Clarke is his middle name. He also produces commercials and makes personal appearances for the station at concerts and other events. "Being on in the middle of the night in Manhattan on the weekends is always entertaining," he said. "I get lots of calls from New York's finest Ð bakers, limo drivers and truck drivers, not to mention all the crazies of New York out partying. It makes for lots of interesting on-air phone calls, believe me." Grevatt writes features for a music industry trade magazine called Hits. In search of some hits of his own, he said he released a CD of his own music about a year ago and continues to produce, write and record. It's all quite different from what he expected as an undergraduate at the School. "My plan was to work in TV in Denver. About three weeks after graduation my father was hit by a car, and I had to move back to New Jersey to take care of him for about a year and a half. This may have been a blessing in disguise, although I do miss waking up and seeing those beautiful Flatirons every morning," he said. Over the past decade and a half, he has worked at MTV and Fox News. More recently, he helped launch "Hard Rock Live" on VH1. Grevatt also worked at Billboard Magazine, Arista and I.R.S. Records. Ironically, it was the magazine gig that landed him in radio. "While doing the weekly charts at Billboard, I would speak to program directors from around the country every week. This one PD said I had a great voice and would I come up to Vermont to be on the air just for a kick? "Well I did, got a tape out of it and thus began my weekend career in radio." His first on-air job was in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., followed by stops in New Jersey and Long Island. Grevatt would like to hear from classmates. E-mail him through the station's Web site www.classicq104.com or at Clarkeq104@aol.com or JonGrevatt@aol.com. |
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