the Ross Brittain report
Our Writers
  • Ross Brittain (editor in chief); heads up the morning show at WOGL-FM /Philadelphia. Ross also was one of the initial members of "The Z Morning Zoo" at Z100 /NYC, and did mornings at WABC /NYC in both the music and talk formats.
  • Bruce Maiman (associate editor, head writer); long-time producer of "The Z Morning Zoo" at Z100 /NYC, Bruce currently hosts a talk show at KFBK in Sacramento, CA and is a former morning DJ in Buffalo, Cincinnati and Monterey, CA. He also has a doctorate in music and would have invented the internet except that Al Gore beat him to it.

Politics:

  • Paul Pacelli (political writer, pundit and dyed-in-the-wool conservative); is an AP-award-winning newscaster and anchor/reporter/talk host at several stations in Connecticut, including WTIC-AM and WDRC-AM in Hartford, WEBE-FM and WICC-AM in Bridgeport, and Quinnipiac University's WQUN-AM, where he also handles some Division I men's and women's basketball and men's hockey play-by-play (primarily because he really gets a kick out of six hour bus rides in snowstorms and bringing back microwaved burritos to his hotel room).

At Large:

  • Rasa Kaye (editor at large); currently at KYW-AM and WPHT-AM / Philadelphia. She was News Director and AM drive anchor at WLTW /NYC for 13 years and also has a NYC TV Emmy Award.


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  • Sam Van Zandt is currently the morning drive host at 94.5 KBAY in San Jose. He's also done stints at KYA, Star101, KNEW-KSAN, KCBS–FM and KFRC and hosted or co-hosted many Bay Area television shows, including KRON-TV 'Saturday Live Magazine," AM San Francisco and the TV 20 10 O’Clock Movie. From 1997 to 2005, Sam was the announcer and a cast member on CBS-TV's "Candid Camera" and has performed stand-up comedy throughout the Bay Area.

Celebrity Trash:

  • Cory Myers (tabloid gossip, NASCAR update); is co-host of the morning show at Country 92.5, WWYZ / Hartford.
  • Heather Lee (celebrities, gossip); works mornings at 101.9 The Wolf in Sacramento, CA; has also worked at Y92, and was the long-time midday /APD /talent at KDND in Sacramento, as well as freelancing in television.

Music News:

  • Vinny Marino (music news); lives among the weird in NYC. A professor at the College of Staten Island, he also works at WQXR /NYC and was a DJ, APD and MD at Chicago's The Loop and Q104.3 /NYC.

Offbeat Stories:

  • Rick Still (weird news) is a radio host living in Colorado Springs. He is a musician and comedy writer and contributes regularly to shows like Dr Demento and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory.

Science:

  • Jennifer Page (health and rocket science); currently News Director at WJIS Sarasota /Bradenton /St Pete; voice tracks in several other markets, plus voice-overs, telephone on hold and all that jazz.