Boogeyin’ Ben Shutt

Rick’s love of radio began at the campus radio station of a small college in New York. Drafted for the Viet Nam war, he was fortunate to be sent in the opposite direction to host afternoon drive at “The Rock of East Africa” (an American radio station in Asmara, Ethiopia). After returning to the U.S., he spent the next ten years working in commercial radio in New York and Florida. Rick then transitioned to multimedia production (hey, the money was better than radio), but when he retired, he was thrilled to find RTI FM. He had come home.

Larry London started his broadcasting career while in high school. Larry has been on the air in the US (Detroit, Boston, St. Louis, Tampa, and Los Angeles) and has also lived and worked in Asia (China, Japan, Hong Kong). He joined VOA in 2001 and a year later was the permanent host of “Border Crossings”. Larry’s daily program features requests, dedications, prize giveaways, the latest music news, and special guest interviews. Larry has interviewed over 2000 guests including Oscar winner Tom Hanks, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Adele, One Direction, Taylor Swift, and many of today’s biggest stars.

Born in Portsmouth, in the UK, Chris Jensen started his radio career with “Portsmouth Hospital Radio” in 1976, where he read the news and sports results, as well as presenting the occasional music programme. In 1979 Chris moved to live in Ireland, where he got heavily involved in the pirate radio scene there, working on a number of stations […]