Catching up with WUMB in Boston (http://www.wumb.org) and saw this:

2.14.10 | *WUMB Music Mix* now extends into the evening with our new host,
Meg Griffin
Beginning Monday, Feb 15th (due to many requests from listeners in our
recent Program Survey) we are extending our locally-produced programming
later into the evening. *Meg Griffin* (in photo) has joined the staff and
will be the host of *WUMB Music Mix* each Mon-Fri, from 7pm-10pm. You can
find out more info about Meg here
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Meg Griffin has been a part of New York radio for nearly 35 years. Meg has
not only survived but thrived through over three decades of a professional
career in which the only constants have been change, the loyalty of her many
fans, and her undying love of great popular music.

A native New Yorker, born in Greenwich Village, Meg Griffin grew up in
suburban White Plains. She is the granddaughter of "Radio Bill Griffin," so
named because he sang live on New York radio in the years before recorded
music took over the airwaves.

"The two great passions of my life, from childhood, were animals and great
music" Meg recalls. "Watching 'The Ed Sullivan Show' every Sunday, growing
up with the WMCA Good Guys and 'WA-Beatle-C' on the radio=97those things ju=
st
imprinted the music on my DNA."

As a teenager, Meg worked as a veterinarian's assistant by day while hanging
at Max's Kansas City by night to catch some of the New York Dolls' earliest
performances. She enrolled at the State University of New York in Cobleskill
to study pre-vet medicine - and the SUNY campus station, WCOB, became the
springboard for her long and vital career.

"At first I just thought it would be funny to write home to my folks: 'Hey,
guess what? I=92m a DJ!' But from the moment I got on the microphone and did
my first segue, it was like 'oh man, I have to do this.'"

Meg's first job in FM rock radio was on WRNW (Briarcliff Manor, NY). The
station was "a tiny house in the woods, where the program director would
come in just long enough to have a cup of coffee. That was great for us
DJs=97we had Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers in heavy rotation!" Meg d=
id
her first radio interview with the late, great reggae musician Peter Tosh on
WRNW. (Over the years, Meg has in=ADterviewed Patti Smith, Tom Waits, James
Brown, the Buzzcocks, Elvis Costello, Dr. John, Steve Earle, Aretha
Franklin, Emmylou Harris, B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Sting, Pete Townshend,
and Rufus Wainwright.)

Meg went on to work at several stations in New York. "From one station to
the next, I=92ve always had enough to live on," says Meg. "To have enough a=
nd
do work that I could feel proud of, was more important than a six-figure
salary. Plus, I was doing voiceovers for promos for TV shows like =91Americ=
an
Journal,=92 and that income helped to buy me my freedom in radio."

1997 brought Meg back to the world of non-commercial radio at Fordham
University-based WFUV. The station's programming blends the more tuneful
side of alternative rock with contem=ADporary singer-songwriters and beloved
standbys (the Beatles, Springsteen, et al).

"WFUV not only allowed me to play Bob Dylan and Patti Smith, it turned me on
to a whole musical cul=ADture of all these singer-songwriters," Meg says
fondly. "It=92s always good to learn about a new music scene other than the
one you=92re entrenched in and my 'FUV experience encouraged artistic growt=
h."


When Meg arrived at Sirius Satellite Radio in 2000, she found not only an
atmosphere of creative fervor but also the company of New York music
industry veterans (and old friends). The national and even global reach of
Sirius captured Meg's imagination, and led her to create the channel Sirius
Disorder 24 - "a mix for misfits who enjoy all musics." When Sirius and XM
merged, she become the host of the daily afternoon show, "The Loft" and a
Sunday show called "Meg Griffin's DiSOrDer." Meg will continue to produce
her shows at Sirius.

"What really attracted me to satellite radio was simply the thought that if
I could have the freedom to put new music on the radio for a national
audience, then maybe more people could hear some of these amaz=ADing artists
that never seem to get anywhere beyond the critics and a cult fan base.

Meg has been an on-camera host on VH1 and in the Eighties hosted "New
Grooves" - her own cutting-edge music video show, airing on late-night TV
from Boston to New York to San Francisco. Another treasured experience was
the live performance series she emceed at New York=92s legendary cabaret, T=
he
Bottom Line. In 2006, Meg was inducted into *The Rock n Roll Hall Of
Fame*in Cleveland, where info about her can be found in the deejay
exhibit in the
Rock Hall.

Meg Griffin takes great pride in the character and accomplishments of her
son Knoah. She re=ADmains grateful to Scott Muni for his creative mentoring
and for launching her radio career; and credits Patti Smith and New York
radio veterans Vin Scelsa and Jonathan Schwartz with providing lasting
inspiration.

Meg has recently moved to an area of Massachusetts where she spent many
summers, and has time to take care of and ride her two horses. The photo of
Meg (above) with a horse she trained in CT named *Star*, was taken by Gayle
Miller . 

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