Toledo Radio: Informal Radio Reunion Set For Tuesday

Pete Cavanuagh

Former Toledo radio broadcasting executive Peter Cavanaugh is planning a meet-up with friends when he hosts what he’s calling an “informal Toledo Radio Reunion” today at a downtown restaurant.

The purely social event will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. at Manhattan’s Restaurant, 1516 Adams St., with a cash bar and no cover, according to the Toledo Blade.

Cavanaugh was executive vice president and chief operating officer of Reams Broadcasting from 1983 through 1992, when it owned WIOT-FM 104.7 FM and WCWA-AM 1230 AM, and helped in the careers of some of Toledo’s best-known radio on-air personalities.

He was then vice president and general manager of WSPD-AM 1370 AM and WLQR-106.5 FM 1470 AM in 1994 through the middle of 1995.

.“Radio people love to talk. You put a whole bunch of them together at the same time; it’ll be bedlam,” Mr. Cavanaugh said Monday.

Among those Cavanaugh invited and hopes to see are former WIOT personalities Jeff Lamb and Mark Benson, Becky Shock and Bob Kelly of WRQN-FM, former WIOT program director Lyn Casye.

Cavanaugh, 71, is a private broadcast consultant and writer for McClatchy Newspapers, lives with his wife, Eileen, in Oakhurst, Calif.

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