Buffalo Radio: Married To Your Job? Try Being Married To the Boss

Tim and Susan Wegner

She trained him for his first job at WBEN 930 AM. Eventually, he became her boss. And according to The Buffalo News, they are about to have something else in common as members of the Buffalo Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

Tim Wenger was recently named senior vice president and market manager of Audacy Buffalo, which owns six stations there, including news talk station WBEN-AM, sports station WGR 550 AM and hit music station WKSE Kiss 98.5 FM.

Susan Rose Wenger is the co-anchor with Brian Mazurowski of WBEN’s “A New Morning.”

Susan, who uses her maiden name on the air, was inducted in the Hall of Fame Class of 2022. Tim is being inducted with the Class of 2023 on Sept. 21 at Samuel’s Grande Manor.

After 37 years together, they complete each other’s sentences. Naturally, they met at WBEN, when it was located on Elmwood Avenue.

After a year at WLVL-AM in Lockport, Susan was hired as a programming assistant at WBEN in 1985. When she received a newsroom job, Tim was hired in 1986 as her replacement. She trained Tim for that job and also when he joined the newsroom.

They were married in 1990.

WBEN is in their DNA. Their collie is named BEN – get it? And their first sailboat was named Anchor Team.

Who’s the boss?  Sandy Beach, the retired WBEN talk show host who finds humor in everything, recalled that he used to do a comedy bit in which he tried to convince Susan not to go out with Tim “because she could do a lot better.”