BIRTHPLACE: Washington, District of Columbia

BIRTHDATE:January 20, 1970 (proud Aquarian - but referred to as borderline Aquarius/Capricorn)

FAVORITE FOOD:Just about anything I can pronounce or recognize! :)

FAVORITE COLOR:I can only pick one!?!? Okay I quess it would have to Blue

FAVORITE ARTISTS:Way too many to mention, so I'll say any singer or group from the early 70's to today!

FAVORITE MOVIES:"Imitation of Life," "The Green Mile," and "Malcom X"

FIRST JOB:A Hanes Hoisery warehouse in Winston-Salem

WORST JOB:Working in any manufacturing plant (no offense to anyone who does this for a living, but it just wasn't for me)

FIRST RADIO JOB:980 Triple A in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

MOST EMBARRASING MOMENT ON-THE-AIR:Now this is really embarrasing, but I called out the wrong call letters at my first radio job!

BIGGEST INFLUENCES:My Lord and Savior, my mother, and my Grandmother

FAVORITE INTERNET SITES: Hotmail, Yahoo, Urban Insight WORDS OF WISDOM:I usually say this at the end of my airshift: "Doubt other people if you must, but never, ever doubt yourself, because there's always someone guiding you every step of the way"!

The “Hardest Working Man in Radio”, along with Sybil, Jay, Cheryl, D. L., Renee, and a whole host of others, is the most entertaining, informative, and entrepreneurial radio show on the airwaves. The Tom Joyner foundation has donated millions of dollars to HBCU’s around the country over the years through his fantastic voyage cruises and family reunions, and he continues to help keep families healthy with his “Take a Loved one To the Doctor campaign”. He’s been nominated for numerous awards, including being inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1998. Listen to the Tom Joyner Morning Show weekdays from 6am to 10am and “Right Back Atcha” Saturdays from 7am to 9am.

Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in St. George, South Carolina, Shilynne majored in Broadcast Journalism at Benedict College in Columbia South Carolina, graduating Cum Laude in 1987. Right out of college, Shilynne got her first job at Heritage station WWDM, then in Sumter, South Carolina. After six months, the Program Director there saw her keen ear for music and gave her “Music Director” stripes in addition to her evening airshift. In 1991, Shilynne moved to Hawaii and did Top 40(Pop) and Rhythmic Radio, moving from Midday to Morning timeslots. It was there that Brian Douglas(Operations Manager of Entercom Radio) heard her on the radio. He was actually vacationing on the Island of Oahu, listening to the radio and called her up, and in 1999, Shilynne came to work for WJMH(102 Jamz) as Midday air personality/imaging director. In 2004, Shilynne moved across the hall to WQMG as Assistant Program Director and one short year later, became Program Director of the radio station. After 20 years in radio, Shilynne still can’t see doing anything else!

Hobbies…..”What else..Music, Plays(Broadway) and Movies!!”

Favorite Artist?….”Oh my goodness, are you kidding me? Don’t make me choose!!”

Favorite Movie?….”Okay, this is gonna HAVE to be a list! The Color Purple, Love Jones, The Best Man, Malcom X, Amistad, Goodfellas, The Godfather Trilogy, Waiting to Exhale, Training Day(Hello!!!), Crash….gonna stop now, ‘cause I could literally go on”.

Favorite Food?…Sushi

Favorite Actor?…Terrence Howard, Denzel Washington, Isaiah Washington, Wood Harris, Colin Farrell, Brad Pitt, Matthew McConaughey…Is this a series? ‘Cause I CANNOT name just one!!!!

Favorite Actress?…Angela Bassett, Halle Berry.

Favorite place to shop?…Nine West, The Gap, Bebe.

If you could live your life over again, would you?…. “No, absolutely not! Everything happens for a reason. I was put on this path to do exactly what I did and learn the lessons I’ve learned, teach the lessons I’ve taught, meet the people I’ve met, feel the pain I’ve felt, experience the joy I’ve experienced, and touch the hearts I’ve touched, exactly the way I was supposed to. You can’t look back. When you do, you block your blessings!

BIRTHPLACE: Winston-Salem, N.C., The Tre 4 (who coined that phrase)?

BIRTHDATE: Christmas Day

FAVORITE FOOD: Good Food!

FAVORITE COLOR: Green (like the color of money)

FAVORITE ARTISTS: EWF, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, John P. Kee

FAVORITE MOVIES: The one I’m living right now - Life

FIRST JOB: Shoe Shine Boy at Smith’s Barber Shop (when Liberty Street was the other side of the tracks)

WORST JOB: No Job!

FIRST RADIO JOB: WSHA-FM, Shaw University’s 10 watt Powerhouse (I had more power in my dormitory light bulb)

MOST EMBARRASING MOMENT ON-THE-AIR: Driving the WDUR Van, I pull a listener over, go live on the air and give him $500! Then I ask, “what‘s  your favorite radio station, to which he replies WSRC (our competition)!

BIGGEST INFLUENCES :My Lord and Savior, my mother and father (RIP)

Music has paid the bills for AC Stone from his college days at Shaw University’s WSHA-FM  in 1975 to his return to 97.1 QMG in 2010. In between the years, he’s held down airshifts at WDNC and G 105 in Durham, and has been a radio programmer and air personality at WDUR Durham, and at radio stations in Mobile, Alabama and Charleston, S.C. He was Regional Promotional Manager with Atlantic Records from 1988 - 1998,  then returned to his first love, radio at 97.1 QMG. He left the station in 2005 to program WQNC, WPZS and WGIV in Charlotte, and now he’s back home where he belongs.                                                                                                  

About me....

I’ve always been radio and music’s biggest fan. It was an infatuation that started years ago with my hometown radio station D103 FM in Fayetteville, NC. I used to call the station sending out requests to my little lady loves and my dreams became reality when I came to A&T [AGGIE PRIDE] for college. I worked for the school’s radio station and so on and so forth. It started with 90.1WNAA FM to 102 Jamz and ironically that’s where it stopped, momentarily. I got fired! Go figure. They must’ve really wanted me to show up to work on-time! Imagine that! I was in my 20’s, just pledged Phi Beta Sigma Frat. Inc. and I thought I was the shhh…… but all things happen for a reason.

For the next couple of years I worked in sales in the car industry and drug industry. Stop trippin I’m talking legal drugs with a Pharmaceutical company! I was married briefly and I almost took a job 2400 miles away on the WESTSIDE but my love for radio prevailed.

I’ve been enjoying ‘The Quiet Storm’ since the summer of 2007. The reason I’m #1 at night and have been since 2007 is because of you! I thank you and I won’t let you down! When I’m not in the studio spinning your favorite jams, I’m enjoying being an adoptive dad to my grown 10 yr old daughter. I’m single and ballin on a budget so can you pick up the snacks this time?lol [you know it’s hard out here for a pimp]. I’m kidding, but seriously, I’m enjoying life to the fullest. I’m doing it for the ladies in “The Quiet Storm” weeknights from 7pm til 12mid on 97.1 WQMG . Enjoy it and don’t hesitate to call or join me online at WQMG.com or on Facebook! .

check me out at: www.MartyFreeman.com | www.myspace.com/martypbs

Wow! What is there to say?

Well, I was born in Columbus, Ohio to a father from Louisana and a mother from Ohio. Shortly after, we all moved to Washington, D C. Started school in Lanham, Maryland, and moved back to Columbus for Jr. High and High School.

I think I got hooked on radio listening to W O L – A M in D C. At about 10 years of age, my mother bought me a transistor radio… my first! I used to listen to everything! Local radio and stations on the skip, like C K L W Windsor, Ontario and W L A C Nashville, Tn. Anything that would come in. The thing that really got me was how they could be in so many different places and do so many things all from the station.

Anyway, after Walsh College in North Canton, Ohio and broadcast school in Columbus, I performed a lot of different jobs before radio really worked for me. I’ve worked Radio in Ohio, Virginia, and both North and South Carolina. It’s really been a great ride, but as Teddy Riley would say… “IT AIN’T OVER!”

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BIRTHPLACE: Columbus, Ohio

BIRTHDATE: A true actor never reveals their age. Besides, I don’t like surprises.

FAVORITE COLOR: Depends on what it’s coloring.

FAVORITE ARTISTS: Anything old school. Horn bands. Funk bands. Jazz. The good stuff!

FAVORTIE MOVIES: Dosen’t really matter. I usually watch them with my eyes closed. The sound effects and soundtrack has to be great!

FIRST JOB: Cutting grass and hedges and painting pic-nic tables and buildings to get the Ohio state fair grounds ready for the public.

WORST JOB: McDonalds! I worked there for two days. It was so bad, I never went back to that restaurant…ever! They still have my check.

MOST EMBARRASING MOMEMENT ON AIR: Getting a winner on tape, and then getting their address and phone, only to realize that as I was taping it, it was also “on the air.”

BIGGEST INFLUENCE: My dad, for buying me a trombone when I wanted a trumpet. The trombone was bigger than I was when it was put together. He made me play it, and I still use those lessons everyday.

FIRST RADIO JOB: W F A C – F M COLUMBUS, OHIO

FAVORITE INTERNET SITE: Besides wqmg.com … I’ll never tell.

FAVORITE SPORTS: Love football and boxing. Tried football…wasn’t that good. Tried boxing…now that worked!

WORDS OF WISDOM: Always do the right thing…because it’s right. And don’t let your kids become Cowboy fans. Let’s go ‘Skins!

BIRTHPLACE: Winston Salem, NC

BIRTHDATE: December 12

FAVORITE COLOR: Burgundy

FAVORITE ARTISTS: A Wide Variety

FAVORTIE MOVIES: Also A Wide Variety

FIRST JOB: The Dixie Classic Fair at age 13, (Worked for Bo-Bo the clown) no I was not the clown.

WORST JOB: Douglas Battery Co.

MOST EMBARRASING MOVEMENT ON AIR: Left the mic open while having a conversation with a friend inside the studio. (My first radio job.)

BIGGEST INFLUENCE: My Mom, My Father, & My Grandmother (Ms. F. Young)..... I miss them everyday.

FIRST RADIO JOB: WAIR 1340 AM (Early 80's)

FAVORITE INTERNET SITE: WQMG

WORDS OF WISDOM: Always love yourself, and in return..... good people will love you back.