San Antonio Radio: Talker Joe Pags Has Active Sax Life

Joe Pags

Most know Joe “Pags” Pagliarulo as a conservative San Antonio talk show host.

According to mysantonio.com, there’s a whole other side to radio pundit Pags, however, one you could describe as cool, even hip – as those attending Friday night’s kickoff to Big League Weekend here will find out.

The popular WOAI 1200 AM voice also is an ace at one of music’s most happening horns: the saxophone. Pags, in fact, recalls that at the young age of 17, he used to pick up $100 an hour for gigs at The Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida.

The San Antonio Spurs have known this about him for a while. Pags, since 2009, said he has been asked repeatedly to play the National Anthem at games. He said he also has performed the honor at an Astros game in Houston and for the Talons in San Antonio.



Last Friday,  he performed prior to  the Texas Rangers-Los Angeles Dodgers game in the Alamodome.

He began his WOAI gig in 2005, recently celebrating his 10th year there, and, via affiliations and syndication, can be heard on some 140 stations at various times around the country.

Pags said he smiles when people call him a conservative talk host, because he doesn’t see himself that way. He said his political gab is only a small part of his nightly, 5-8 p.m. radio act on WOAI.