Jimmy Howes is a radio disc jockey

Disc jockey

A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

 and talk show host, stand-up comic. New York City On-Air Radio Host under dozens of different synonyms. Morning Show Host on Jukebox Radio, New York City, Mid-Day host with WVNJ, Program Director and a morning show host of WGHT. Jimmy is one of the first radio DJ's to put listeners on the air live, thus he is the Creator of "Call-in Rock & Roll Radio Show" format. Howes' has voiced hundreds of national commercials. Stand-Up Comedian and Musician. One of the first Mobile-DJ's and Disco Club Mix Master in the late 1970s. Awarded Gold Record from the RIAA.

Howes has also worked at WJUX

WJUX

WJUX is a radio station broadcasting a Christian radio format. Licensed to Monticello, New York, USA. The station is currently owned by Bridgelight, LLC....

, WSPK

WSPK

WSPK is a CHR radio station licensed to Poughkeepsie, New York and broadcasting from studios in Fishkill. It is owned by Pamal Broadcasting and broadcasts on 104.7 MHz at an ERP of 7.4 kilowatts from a tower at the top of Mount Beacon in Fishkill.WSPK's main coverage area is centered on the...

, WBNR

WBNR

WBNR is the callsign of an AM radio station licensed to Beacon, New York and serving the Hudson Valley. The station is owned by Pamal Broadcasting and broadcasts on 1260 kHz at 1,000 watts daytime and 480 watts nighttime, both directional, from a four-tower array at 475 South Avenue in the of...

, WALL

WALL

WALL is a radio station licensed to Middletown, New York that serves Orange County, New York. WALL is owned by Cumulus Media and broadcasts at 1340 kHz with 1,000 watts, daytime and nighttime, both nondirectional....

, WKGL-FM, WKOJ, WNNJ

WTOC (AM)

WTOC was a radio station licensed to Newton, New Jersey. They offered an oldies music format with songs from the 1960s and 1970s along with a small amount oldies from 1955 to 1964 and a small amount of hits from the 1980's. They were a full-time affiliate of Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel...

, WSUS, WTBQ

WTBQ

WTBQ is an independent radio station broadcasting from Warwick, New York, featuring oldies, local talk shows and specialty programming. The last locally-owned radio station left in Orange County, New York , WTBQ broadcasts on 1110 AM and 93.5 FM, throughout Orange County and northern New...

, WVIP

WVIP

WVIP is a radio station broadcasting a World Ethnic format. Licensed to New Rochelle, New York, USA, it serves the New York metropolitan area. Formerly known as WRTN-93.5 and renamed WVIP, the station is currently owned by Hudson-Westchester Radio, Inc. and features programing from Jones Radio...

, WZAD

WZAD

WZAD is country music radio station licenced to Wurtsboro, New York that serves the Catskill Mountains region, Orange County, New York, and Pike County, Pennsylvania...

, WSUL

WSUL

-History:WSUL was owned and operated by former disc jockey Dan Dayton and his wife, Lynn . Pat Gillen and Dave Driscoll anchored the morning show at one time. For ten years the station played easy listening songs from the '60s and '70s until the station was sold to Reynolds Communications...

, B-92, WHTZ

WHTZ

WHTZ — branded Z100 — is a commercial pop/contemporary hit radio radio station licensed to Newark, New Jersey serving the New York metropolitan area. The station is currently owned by Clear Channel Communications...

, WGHT

WGHT

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, and Dance Party USA

Dance Party USA

Dance Party USA is an American dance television show that aired on cable's USA Network from April 12, 1986, to June 27, 1992. It was originally a half-hour, but was expanded to an hour in 1987....

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Awards and honors

Awarded the prestigious American Morning Show Host of the Year and received Marconi Award

NAB Marconi Radio Awards

The Marconi Radio Awards are presented annually by the National Association of Broadcasters to the top radio stations and on-air personalities in the United States. The awards are named in honor of Guglielmo Marconi, the man generally credited as the "Father of Wireless Telegraphy." NAB member...

 honors along with entire on air staff at WGHT. RIAA Gold and Platinum Record awards & Garden State Journalist Award for Talk Radio, 2010 and also 2011.

Personal life

Born in Queens

Queens

Queens is the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The largest borough in area and the second-largest in population, it is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States....

, New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, on March 27, 1961. Young childhood in Bushwick Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

, New York. Graduate of Hackensack High School

Hackensack High School

Hackensack High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Hackensack, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Hackensack Public Schools...

 and Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

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External links

• http://www.ghtradio.com/personalities_howes.html
• http://www.stevebloomentertainment.com/sb_djvj.html
• http://www.stevebloomentertainment.com/sb_liveband-duo.html
• http://www.gsjournalists.com/awards-competition