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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.

Chris joined Public Radio Tulsa as a news anchor and reporter in April 2020. He’s a graduate of Hunter College and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, both at the City University of New York.

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.

Jeff Martin is the Online Communities Manager for Philbrook Museum of Art. In his spare time, he's also a writer and editor. His most recent book, The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books, was praised in The Economist and The New Yorker, and was selected as one of the Essential Summer Reads of 2011 by The Atlantic. Jeff is a longtime columnist for TulsaPeople magazine and the founder of the literary organization, Booksmart Tulsa.