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LocaL coLor 48 p o r t l a n d monthly magazine wheel me out and Im talking through my little voice box. Sarah Sullivan Wpor 101.9 As a co-host of the WPOR morning show do you feel like part of the local community There will always be a connection with local radio because we shop at the same shops go to the same places eat at the same restau- rants. There will always be that connection of I know her. When did you first connect with radio I was about eightand I remember listen- ing to a station in Nashua. They had some guy on who threw out the phone number so I picked up the phone and said Hi can you play Andy Glibb He got on the air and said I want to say hi to SarahAnd I freaked out. I couldnt believe he actually said my name on the radio. When did you know youd work in radio Ive always loved radio. I was a music ma- jor in college. My dad was a musician. We always had the radio on. I studied vocal performance. I was going to be an opera singer but you cant make a living in New Hampshire as an opera singer. Did you have any influences I always had the radio on behind me. Charles Laquidara was on at the time on WBCN in Boston and he sounded like the biggest idiot. I thought I could probably do that. There was another guy who was highly influential on Boston. His name was Dale Dorman. Uncle Dale. He would say things that were R rated if you thought of them that way but to a little kid they were like oh yeah. What was your first on-air gig I went to the Connecticut School of Broad- casting in Wellesley Hills Mass. I got my first job as an intern at Rock 101 WGIR in Manchester. I interned for a little while and then I thought I should get paid. I went to WSMN in Nashua. W hen I got into FM radio I thought it was the big time. That station really hooked me with radio. The music was coolI met my first rock star at WMDKTodd Rundgren. Patty Wight You were eventually at WHOB where you did the morning show with Jeff Paradise. Was it hard hav- ing this career and being a parent I was a single mom. Did it all. Bought a house raised a kid worked morning radio. Woo-hoo. Wheres my emblem Wheres my cape Wheres my prize So it was hard No. I jump into things before I know what the consequences are. Thats kind of a char- acteristic of mine. Its worked to my advan- tage and to my disadvantage It was never really hard. You do what you have to do be- cause you have to do it. It was just me and my son for a long time. Were there many women working with you in radio in the beginning WhenIfirstgotintoradioitwasallguys.Cer- tainlynowinmorningradiotherearemorefe- malesbutitneverusedtobethatway.Therewas a specific formula to radio. Youd have room for one female on staff and that was it. That wasenough. Wasnt there a time when you couldnt play two female singers back to back When I did the music for a Top 40 station in the 90s that was the time when Christina Aguilera Britney Spears Jessica Simpson when it broke. Because all of these blonde young singers had hits and it was virtual- ly impossible to create a music log without putting to females back to back. What is the best part of your job today When a listener comes up to me and tells me I listen to you every morning. I can be talking to somebody on the other side of the radiomaybe they have nobody or no one just my voice. Thats the best part about being on the radio the listeners. patty Wight MpBn 90.1 What drives you as a news producer I love sound. Some people say radio is the most visual medium and I think there is some truth to that. When a radio story is done well it engages you in a different way. Did you always want to be in radio I went to school for wildlife biology and I loved it but I was not a scientist at heart. I had a National Geographic romantic vi- sion of it. I got an internship at Maine Audubon so I thought Id stay in Maine for the fall and go out West to explore. I happened to meet my now-husband so thats why Im here but I also started to listen to public radio I thought wow this seems really fun. Its what I wanted out of the National Geographic dream. Its an adventurous job where things are different every day learn- ing new things meeting new people. You free-lanced for a while after graduating from the SALT Institute. What was the transition like from freelance to a job at MPBN It was an adjustment to learn how to do a story in a day. Youve got to go along with your gut. But there are times when I may be more happy with the results than a lon- ger story. When did it all click for you Those moments come whenever you do a I want people to say I cant believe you said that courtesyPhotos