TJ Carter

Radio was a pretty big deal back when I was growing up in the early seventies on our farm south of Wisner.  It seems we always had the radio on.  As the youngest of the six kids in my family I had access to a tape recorder as well as a vast record collection and I spent a lot of time with both.  The Beatles, Neil Young, and Jimi Hendrix is pretty advanced stuff for a near toddler aged kid to be checking out- thank God for my siblings!

 In my high school days at Wisner-Pilger I recall researching radio as a career for a class assignment.  Shortly thereafter, around my junior year, I had my first radio gig on the West Point station AM 84.  This was a weekly high School report done via telephone from the school office.  My mom would tape it each week and I enjoyed the fame- lol.

The broadcast department at Wayne State College was my life for four years beginning in the fall of 1988.  So much fun it was, especially the last two semesters serving as program director and general manager for the college radio station K-92 "The Institute of Rock".

In 1989 I got my first real radio job which was at the Norfolk station KEXL.  Later that year I began work at 94.7 KNEN, now known as 94 Rock.  So very glad to still be there playin' my favs like Led Zeppelin, Dokken and Motley Crue!  My full-time employment outside of radio is at the Nucor Bar Mill of Norfolk.

I have two children, the loves of my life.  My daughter Alaina is 12, and my son Carson is 8.  They enjoy attending Randolph Public School.

My free time and hobbies include travel, going to concerts, and owning many concert shirts and over 2,000 CDs.  My girlfriend Charlotte and her daughter Wyatt (from my hometown) have been along for many trips recently, including Door County Wisconsin, the Black Hills and Western Nebraska, as well as Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo.  Me and Charlotte recently went to Mexico and are about to see Las Vegas.

It has been amazing beyond words to have been here at KNEN 94 Rock for 30-plus years and I enjoy the role I play here now as much as ever.  And holy cow-we're playing rock!