The Anniston Star ● Monday, October 5, 2009
MONDAY RECORD YOUR GUIDE TO PUBLIC RECORDS AND VITAL STATISTICS IN CALHOUN COUNTY
OFF TO WORK ... WITH A RADIO STATION MUSIC DIRECTOR
Chris Stanton blends work with love for music BY BILL EDWARDS bedwards@annistonstar.com
When you listen to your favorite tunes on any radio station these days, it’s almost guaranteed you’re not hearing a grizzled old DJ, surrounded by coffee cups and cigarette smoke, tossing something made of vinyl onto a turntable. Instead, you’re hearing the results of someone like Chris Stanton pushing buttons and sliding a mouse around several hours earlier. The 51-year-old veteran of north Alabama airwaves is music director of 97.9 WVOK in Oxford, where he sees his job as providing entertainment to the northeast Alabama masses. But he does so behind the scenes: “I’m more of a production person than an on-air person,” said Stanton, who goes off to work wearing the hats of Web site director, public service announcement director and advertising commercial producer and recorder. “That’s why I don’t have much live time on the air,” he said, noting that like many employees in the mass media business these days, “everybody around here does two or three jobs.” That being said, he added, “I actually like what I do.” The prized live time Stanton does have Please see WORK ❙ Page 3
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Chris Stanton is the music director of 97.9 WVOK. He says he is more of a production person than an on-air person.
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