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Before making her way to Public Radio Tulsa, KWGS News Director Cassidy Mudd worked as an assignment editor and digital producer at a local news station. Her work has appeared on ABC, CBS, and NBC affiliates across the country.

Beth Wallis holds a journalism degree from the University of Oklahoma. Originally from Tulsa, she also graduated from Oklahoma State University with a bachelor's degree in music education and a master's degree in conducting performance. She was a band director at a public school for five years.

Graycen Wheeler is a reporter covering water issues at KOSU.

Brad Newman is a native of Tulsa, who served our country and used his training and the opportunity to obtain his degrees while in the service. Working at Public Radio Tulsa for over 25 years, Brad's the man who really knows where all the skeletons are buried! In 1985 Brad moved the KWGS transmitter site from Sand Springs to Coweta and increased the power to 50,000 watts. On Oct. 4th 2002, 4:05 pm one of his most memorable achievement was pushing the button to turn KWTU on for the first time - the first HD radio station on the air in Oklahoma. Over the years, Brad has changed the station dramatically as it evolved from tubes to computers.

Scott Gregory started working at Public Radio Tulsa in 2006; he started listening to public radio circa 1980, when he and NPR both marked their tenth birthdays (although only one of them commemorated the occasion with a party at Skate World). Scott became this radio station's Operations Director in the summer of 2023; he also hosts and programs All This Jazz, which airs every Saturday night on Public Radio 89.5-1 from 9pm till midnight.

Although he’s best known as an author and journalist, having written, co-written, or edited more than 25 books along with spending 23 years as an entertainment writer for the Tulsa World newspaper, John Wooley isn’t a broadcasting dilettante – at least, not quite.

Richard Higgs moved to Tulsa from Kansas in January, 1980. He first set foot in Public Radio Tulsa's studios in 1996, as a guest on Studio Tulsa, to promote his book about working the American wheat harvest, "Bringing In The Sheaves". He's a passionate devotee of Oklahoma music, past and present.

Scott Aycock is first and foremost a singer/songwriter and a poet. He also happens to be a Marital and Family Therapist, which gives him much insight into human nature and provides fuel for his story driven songs. Also, he grew up in a family of storytellers, so it was only natural that his songwriting become an expression of that tradition.

Denis McGilvray is not an ethnomusicologist, but he plays one on the radio. He started hosting The Rhythm Atlas world music program here on KWGS in September 2017.