REMOTE NEWS SERVICE - Key Persons
Bob began his radio career while in High School in central Florida. His travels have taken him to Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, Sacramento, Orlando and a handful of other stops over the years. He is also an Actor and has appeared in several major Motion Pictures, Network TV programs and on Stage. In addition, he is a Voice Actor and Award-winning Audiobook Narrator. But his first love will always be Radio.
Brian has more than 20 years' experience reporting news, sports and traffic. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Brian grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and graduated from N.C. State University with a degree in English with a journalism concentration. He has wide experience in a diverse variety of formats, including traffic reporting, classical music, sports talk, and on-scene news and sports coverage. Brian has been a credentialed member of the NHL media since 2007, with a focus on the Carolina Hurricanes, and he volunteers extensively as a high school sports PA announcer and mentor for aspiring broadcasters. (He clearly has a habitual inability to say "no", which his wife will absolutely vouch for.) Brian lives outside Orlando, Florida, with his wife and daughter.
Job Titles:
- Lead Anchor / Network Liaison
Originally from Toledo, Claire has been a News and Traffic Anchor for over twenty years, in every corner of the mainland U.S., from Los Angeles to Savannah to Seattle to Boston. Before working in radio, Claire worked in professional theatre as a stage manager and still loves the performing arts so she volunteers to help kids with it when she can. She has two cats and two dogs and is a huge sports fan, especially of her beloved Detroit Lions, which should tell you something about her loyalty and ability to rise above disappointment. Claire also likes running, bike riding, board games, SciFi, and crossword puzzles.
Daniel is a native of Tennessee and now calls Kentucky home. After serving in the US Army, he had a long and circuitous route to broadcasting. He has been host, co-host and editor on various podcasts. He spent several years as co-host of a live radio talk show centered on the outdoors. During that time, he worked as the News Director for a three station cluster in central Kentucky. He currently hosts a daily radio show as well as fill-in for morning show jocks when needed. He also gathers and reports news for multiple stations across the country.
David Denton started his radio life in Memphis, Tennessee, while still in high school. Over the years he made several moves for radio jobs to Idaho, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, and a final stop in Logan, Utah. Now retired but still loving radio, he anchors part time and hosts three podcasts: Radio Guy Reflections, Three W News, and Turnbuckle Trash.
Eric has been in love with radio for over 20 years. He has been both a program director for iHeart Media and an on-air show host in Texas and Tennessee. Eric currently does live and pre-recorded news casts for top stations in markets such as San Antonio, Houston, and New Orleans. His local stories have been featured nationally on FOX News and ABC News Radio.
JoAnn Genette is a Chicago radio veteran, currently heard on AM 560 The Answer. JoAnn started her radio career in the early 1990s when reel to reel editing was done with a razor and tape. The majority of JoAnn's professional career has involved writing and delivering news at radio stations throughout Chicagoland, including at WKSC 103.5 KISS FM, FM News 101 Chicago, co-hosting a news talk format before moving onto the legendary 780 AM/105.9 FM WBBM. JoAnn is the mom to two teenagers, enjoys carnivals, amusement parks and live entertainment.
Father to 4 beautiful children, a midwest native, and lover of news. Jon grew up on a 150 year old dairy farm along the shores of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin (we love our Packers, and our Cheese). He also grew up with a microphone on the desk in his bedroom, the brown Fischer Price Tape Deck (you know, the one with the handle), a camcorder on his shoulder, and never stopped talking. In 2001, while installing telephone systems at a radio station, he saw the afternoon DJ interacting with listeners on the local top 40 station and asked the Program Director if he could try it. After getting a chance at the coveted "weekend overnight" shift, Jon moved to middays on the heritage Hot AC station in the market. After a few years of "talking for 10 seconds between songs" he says he got hungry for more, and asked the news director if he could help him on the weekends. From there, the news just kept getting better and better, working with some amazing people along the way!
Lesley Lotto is the founder and creator of Remote News Service, which started after one too many small market moves across the country and a little, snarky podcast. She has worked in the entertainment industry for more than 30 years as a talent agent, coach, talk host, podcaster, news reporter and anchor. Her combined experience in the music, film, TV and broadcasting industries gives her an unparalleled level of experience. Lesley's passion for news reporting and truth telling led to several network anchoring opportunities at Talk Radio Network's "America's Radio News", the Blaze Radio Network, where Lesley helped start their 24/7 short form news operation for Sirius/XM Patriot. She has also anchored for Fox News also on Sirius/XM, and Bloomberg Radio, and is a Master Yoga Teacher.
Remote News Service was created as an affordable, real news solution for radio stations everywhere. Ever since Lesley Lotto was a kid she wanted to be a writer. Then when she got to high school, Lesley fell madly, deeply in love with journalism and started newspaper writing and investigative reporting.
In college Lesley explored various slices of the journalism pie, then took a broadcast journalism class and fell madly, deeply in love! She's been in love with radio ever since. Whether working in the day-to-day news operation at a major news network or remotely for a mom and pop station, it matters not, Lesley's passion for radio is contagious!
Morgan is pretty lucky. She'll admit that right away. She gets to do what she loves every day and it somehow counts as "work!" But she also works hard to earn the right to keep doing that every day. Morgan didn't grow up wanting to be on the radio. The path was about as tangled as the cord on a pair of discarded headphones. The short version of a long story is that she grew up in the country and rolling hills of America's DairyLand, *hit Fast Forward* From Wisconsin, she flew the nest to Boston, MA and absorbed all the education and brownstone architecture that she could while attending Emerson College. Now, after some more miles down the scenic route (literally-including a roadtrip around the lower 48 states), she has returned to Wisconsin and is using her voice and Bachelor of Science in Speech degree every day on the airwaves of the Midwest Family radio stations in Eau Claire. Live, local radio is a passion for her in the role as News Director at the 715 Newsroom where she is committed to being a source of "News Done Differently." Here as part of the team at Remote News Service, Morgan extends her passion for broadcasting in an anchor role for various stations around the country, as well. That's on-mic. Off mic, it's family as a lifestyle, books as a pastime, nature as therapy, beer as a hobby, dogs as best friends....oh, and a little bit of adventure-and luck-along the way. Thanks for listening.
Nikki Whaley has over 10 years of radio broadcasting experience working as a news and traffic anchor and reporter. Her voice has been heard on many heritage stations around the country, including in top radio markets of New York City, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington D.C.,San Francisco, Dallas and Los Angeles. In her spare time, Nikki hosts her own podcast with her husband and voices audio books and commercials. The couple have a house full of animals, including three cats and a dog..and she's working on buying a parrot.
From Rock to Christian, Morning Drive to Overnights, and everything in between, Pam's done it all in her 30 years of "playing on the radio." Most of those years were spent as an on air personality in Houston, TX. Along the way she also delivered news and traffic for top Houston stations and took on Assistant Program Director duties. Pam is a member of The Texas Radio Hall of Fame - Class of 2022. Currently, in addition to delivering news for Remote News Service stations she is a Voice-Over talent and hosts the evening show on Third Rock Radio, the official radio station of NASA which is the only radio station played aboard the International Space Station…and around the globe for those closer to town. Pam is married and has a 15-year old son and takes care of her mom and two very spoiled dogs.
Anchor Teammate Patrick Johnson has worked recently hosting the top-rated "Patrick Johnson Show" during afternoon drive in Greenville, NC for 94.3 The Game. Previously, Johnson was the morning drive host on heritage station WPTF in Raleigh, NC, an anchor on the NC News Network, and reporter/anchor on WDBO in Orlando and correspondent with ABC Radio News. The native North Carolinian has also worked as a play-by-play announcer for Learfield IMG College, Time Warner Cable Sports Channel, SiriusXM, The Heritage Sports Radio Network, MASN (Mid-Atlantic Sports Network), The ACC Network and NFHS Network, among others.
Sarah McCormick has been a broadcast journalist for over twenty years. She grew up in Metro Detroit where local radio shaped her ambition. She honed her skills at Northern Michigan College and earned her degree from American University in Washington, D.C. Her broadcasting career has taken her from the Midwest, to the East Coast, the Central Plains, the West Coast and back to Michigan, where she continues to report and produce news and engineer. Sarah and her husband are animal rescuers with two macaws and two German Shepherds. Along with her broadcasting husband, Sarah pursues audible excellence and adventure. Communication is her passion, and being a voice for rational journalism remains her primary goal.
Scott has worked over 3 decades in radio doing voice over work, commercial production and imaging. He's a Mercury Award winner, racetrack announcer, NASCAR announcer and Monster Truck announcer. He's also an NHRA Announcers Guild member. He's a fan of boating, birds, carpentry work and of course his lovely wife, Sarah.