Alumni Spotlight
Alumni Spotlight: Michael Ashley-Mennis (2010)
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023 by Charlie Wahlberg
Michael Ashley-Mennis, a 2010 graduate of Loyola University Maryland, shares their experience at the radio station and shares advice to students looking to enter the broadcasting and entertainment space.
Q: Can you tell us about your shows at WLOY?
A: Old Time Radio Hour, Radio Dramas: I worked with John first to figure out who had the rights to play classic radio shows (Escape, The Shadow, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar) then he pointed me in the direction of a group in Los Angeles who had old tapes of the shows. We struck a deal where we’d take the tape recordings, clean them up and send back CDs while we could record and play the shows on air. (more…)
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Alumni Spotlight: Justin Thomas (2015)
Monday, April 24th, 2023 by Charlie Wahlberg
Justin Thomas, an alumnus of the class of 2015 talks about their show, “Sports Talk”, the opportunities they gained from being involved in the station, and shares a word of advice for current WLOY members!
Q: Can you tell us a little bit about your show at WLOY?
A: I did the sports show (Sports Talk) on WLOY every Monday and Friday in the afternoons. We talked about everything sports both professional and collegiate, and it was an absolute blast. I always looked forward to doing every show, and it helped me live out my sports broadcasting itch.
Q: Who is your current favorite artist?
A: It’s still Fall Out Boy. (more…)
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National Student Electronic Media Conference 2022
Thursday, November 17th, 2022 by Liz Kosik
by Ben Ostrowski ’24
From October 27-30th, the WLOY staff attended the highly anticipated National Student Electronic Media Conference (NSEMC) that took place in Baltimore this year! More than 300 students involved in college radio and TV stations all over the country came together to connect with each other and learn more about the TV and radio industry.
Thursday’s sessions and panels took place with topics ranging from navigating through the post-pandemic world, women’s sports, and how to better engage with your audience. Staff and station advisers also met in roundtable discussions to talk about different ways to improve their respective stations and get feedback from other admins. At the end of the day, all attendees gathered in the Diamond Tavern at the Baltimore Hilton Hotel for the swag swap, where stations traded stickers, t-shirts, tote bags, and every kind of merch you can think of with each other. The staff came back to the station with a whole box of merchandise from stations all over the country! (more…)
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WLOY Welcomes 2022 NSEMC to Baltimore
Monday, October 24th, 2022 by The Professor
WLOY is honored and thrilled to welcome the 2022 National Student Electronic Media Convention to Baltimore! After years of the conference roving around the country and just missing us, we finally captured it for 2020 and then… ugh. Thankfully we are hosting it live and in person for 2022! We welcome hundreds of college radio and TV students and advisors to Charm City October 26-29th. We’re doing our best to be great ambassadors for Baltimore with a 20 minute welcome to Charm City video created by Ben Ostrowski ’24 and voice by him and Hope Johnson ’23. We’ve roped in great local music from Skribe and James Von Lenz and arranged tours of M & T Bank Stadium and WBAL Radio/TV and more fun things. How about bringing a special edition of the Baltimore Record Bazaar into the hotel to let students from all over the country do a little crate digging! We’ll be sharing as much Baltimore as we can with our guests and linking videos and other info. As a bonus, we have 9 amazing WLOY alumni coming back to share their experiences in radio, TV, film, PR, digital content and entertainment law 🙂
See below for the video exploring things to do in Baltimore and links to everything mentioned! (more…)
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Classic WLOY Promo Video Unearthed!
Monday, March 28th, 2022 by The Professor
Once upon a time Phil had an idea to make a video… And that video quickly got silly. We had it posted on YouTube but it was taken down because of the music bed. We thought it was lost but years of scouring bins of old hard drives has finally brought it back in all its glory. Revel in our music staff learning about vinyl, the sales team making stacks, Brandon’s secret love of Rick Astley and our amazing 1993 Ford Aerostar! (more…)
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I Never Knew Host in the Jamaica Observer
Friday, May 8th, 2020 by The Professor
I Never Knew Radio host and I Never Knew TV host Linton “Junior” Hinds (’06) found himself featured in the Jamaica Observer for his documentary story on roots tonics in Jamaica. In addition to hosting his weekly radio show here on WLOY, Junior has a massive catalog of videos on the history of Rastafarianism, African Diaspora, Reggae and Jamaican culture all housed on his YouTube channel. With more than 10 million views, it’s easy to understand why The Observer picked up on his work. More and more people are finding and sharing his important stories and interviews with artists, philosophers, medical professionals and more. Do yourself a favor and check out both the radio show (every Sunday 9-11am) and the YouTube channel. We know you’ll find yourself saying “I Never Knew…” more than once!
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ATW Sits Down with Jay O’Brien (2005)
Wednesday, November 20th, 2019 by WLOY Staff
On Nov. 15, WLOY’s After the Whistle team headed down to M&T Bank Stadium for an exclusive interview with Jay O’Brien, the VP of Broadcasting and Gameday Operations for the Ravens organization. O’Brien was a part of Loyola’s College class of 2005. He worked at WLOY and The Greyhound during his time at the college.
Below is the full interview with O’Brien. Check back to WLOY.org for more content from Loyola’s premier sports talk radio show, After the Whistle!
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WLOY in Loyola Magazine!
Saturday, March 30th, 2019 by The Professor
Wow! WLOY was given a massive feature story in the March 2019 Loyola Magazine and we are thrilled! Not only did it feature amazing alumni talking about what made WLOY special for them, it included some great features on what they do now. Check out the great story about Katie Kazmierski ’18 who is working at KNOM Radio in Nome, Alaska! You can grab the PDFs of the articles here and enjoy them at your own pace. If you don’t get the magazine, please reach out to the alumni office at Loyola and ask that they add you to the mailing list.
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Alumni Spotlight: Sam Chemali (2017)
Saturday, March 3rd, 2018 by The Professor
Recent graduate Samantha Chemali ’17 hopped on the line with Katie Kazmierski ’18 to chat about her new gig at SiriusXM as a show producer, her past work at WLOY on What Happens Next? and some advice for students looking to find work in media operations. Also… it rained tacos.
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WLOY Sports Director at the Winter Olympics
Friday, February 9th, 2018 by The Professor
WLOY Sports Director Bobby Trosset ’17 is no stranger to the Olympics and big events. While still a student at Loyola, Bobby worked for the Today Show as a runner at the 2017 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. He followed that up by helping to arrange the Guinness World Record Crab Walk at Loyola as part of the Rokerthon 2017. As the Sports Director at WLOY, Bobby did play-by-play of The President’s Cup city-wide high school baseball games and broadcast from the radio booth at Camden Yards several times. Now, out in the “real world” we find ourselves answering the question “Where in the world is Bobby?” with “South Korea”! Working for NBC Sports Washington, Bobby is covering the Winter Olympics in South Korea. Today we’re honored to have him tell us more about it during the 4-5pm (EST) weekly Sports Talk show with Stefan and Austin. Bobby’s joining us at 6am his time having just finished the first day of the 2018 Winter Olympics. We’re excited to hear more about it and continue the WLOY tradition of Sports Directors doing big things! Tune in today to catch the interview live from Korea!
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