National Radio Day: How My Career Began
Happy National Radio Day!
21 years ago I made a prank phone call to a WNEW FM and I was hired as a producer for a show called Ron and Fez, and wound up working at WNEW for 7 years through many historic format flips and historic events (9/11, Blackout of 2003) before coming to NJ radio full time (I have been a part-timer on WMTR for 16 years).
Ginny Otte is a lifelong resident of New Jersey, having grown up in Lincoln Park, and lived in Wayne. She began her career in radio as the result of a prank phone call where the on-air personality she called said “please call again tomorrow,” and the station hired her to produce the show two months later; by 2006, Ginny began working middays at WMTR, and considers spending middays with listeners for so many years to be one of the highlights of her life. Ginny’s hobbies include genetic genealogy, family trees, knitting, crocheting, camping and hiking. She is a mother to three adult children and a grandmother to one.