Don has been the morning host on 810 WGY since 1980. Before that, Don was a Top 40 DJ at WTRY, weatherman on Channel 13 and creative director for an advertising agency. A native of the Capital Region, Don is one of the area's most well-known personalities, and has won numerous awards, including the NAB Marconi Award for Medium Market Personality of the Year and was named Best Personality by the New York State Broadcasters Association. Don and his wife, Sue, live in Rotterdam.
Chuck Custer
For years (almost too many to count) he's been Don Weeks' on-air partner. Chuck came here after growing up in Pittsfield, Mass...going to college in Boston...and working in Utica, Charleston W.Va and Providence. He started at WGY anchoring night-time newscasts. After a couple of years, he moved to mornings with Don and they've been together ever since. Chuck became WGY News Director in 1994 and later added Program Director duties. He also oversees wgy.com, vending machine operations (he just added Twizzlers) and custodial duties (the toilets have never looked better). His greatest source of pride and joy are his boys, Cory and Scott. Chuck lives in Latham with his lovely wife Linda (she must have self-esteem issues) and a revolving menagerie of animals that simultaneously torment and delight him as he watches his property value plummet every time Linda brings in another "beast".
Steve Bleznyk
"Blez" serves as Program Director for WOFX, and Assistant PD for WGY. He's also a producer for WGY. Steve lives on Saratoga Lake just outside of Malta, NY.
Steve is an avid Nascar fan and enjoys watching sports. Steve's only hobbies outside of radio are drinking whiskey straight from the bottle and weeping quietly in the darkness. Steve hopes someday to earn a G.E.D. and see his credit limit raised to $100.
Justin Fiet
Born in the Ozarks to moonshiners in 1980, Justin Fiet had a surprisingly happy childhood. An epiphany (or some may say, the only option left to him) at the age of 20 drove him to radio school, where he immersed himself in the trade of thankless, behind the scenes work that lead him ultimately to employment at WGY. Justin did a great job producing The Al Roney Show and now is producer for Don Weeks and the WGY Morning News.
Friends say he bears an uncanny resemblance to the lead singer in the credit report-dot-com commercials.
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Read is a native of Tiffin, Ohio, and a graduate of Bowling Green State University. He found his way to 810 WGY and the Capital Region in November of 2001, after 13 years in sunny Florida. His wife is still asking him why.
Currently, Read's the Assignment Editor, and handles much of the day's anchoring duties. He also works with Joe Gallagher on Saturday mornings, and even writes his own blog, "Good! Not Good!" on wgy.com. He and his wife, Lorie, live in Clifton Park with their cat, ' Toga, and a couple of birds. When not on the air, he spends his time at the Southern Saratoga "Y," or playing baseball with the Capital District Men's Senior Baseball League. In the fall and winter, he's a member of the Memorial Town Band of Colonie.
Born and bred here in the Capital Region, Jaime has been the morning show co-host on our sister station 98.3 WTRY since 2000. She has worked on WGY for the past four years and is now hosting the WGY Pet Talk Show on Saturday mornings at 11am. Jaime shares her home in Rensselaer with her menagerie of pets: two dogs-Leo and Freckles, and three cats-Ollie, Mokie and Lil'Bit.
Jim Knapp
Award winning reporter Jim Knapp is in his fifth year at 810 WGY. He grew up in New Paltz, and is a 2001 graduate of SUNY Oswego's broadcasting program.
During his time in Albany, Jim has reported from the scene of many major news events, including the 2004 shooting at Columbia High School in East Greenbush, the 2006 murder conviction of Christopher Porco, the 2007 standoff in Delaware County in which a state trooper was killed, and most recently, the resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Coverage of the Porco trial won the station a coveted Edward R. Murrow award.
Jim is a news and politics junkie, and an avid fan of the Super Bowl champion New York Giants. He lives in Guilderland, and in his spare time concentrates on being a great American.