Announcer Biographies

                             

Bill Gilmer is an award winning radio journalist.  Bill's career began in Defiance, Ohio, after graduating from Indiana University.  Bill came to the Port Huron area in 1979, where he has worked for numerous Port Huron radio stations. Bill is also a former Port Huron City Councilmember, a former Blue Water Festival director and was a Vice-President of the Michigan Waterways Council of the Girl Scouts Of America.  He is currently Chairman of the St. Clair County Local Emergency Planning Committee and is a member of the Citizen Corps Committee with the county.  In addition to his news announcing duties he recently began watching over WHLS which has a "Good Times Great Hits" format.  Bill says the tunes played there are right in the era of "his" music.  He invites you to give an ear to the best sounds of the 70's and 80's. 

Jim Matthews is Assistant News Director for the Blue Water News Network at WHLS/WHLX.  He has worked with the RadioFirst Company for over 7-years, both part and full-time, in many different capacities.  He began his career in radio as a Disc Jockey on WSAQ-FM and WHLS-AM in 2001.  He made the move to the news department in 2005.  He graduated with a BA in Radio and TV Communications and, also graduated from the Specs Howard School Of Broadcast Arts.

Annie Spears attended Oxford Schools her whole life. She graduated in 2003 and decided to go to college at a number of schools: first Oakland University, then Madonna University in Orchard Lake, then Specs Howard, and finally graduated from Siena Heights in May (2007) with a degree in Radio and TV Broadcasting with a Marketing minor. From interning in promotions at Greater Media, to interning on the Magic Morning show, to working as Associate Producer for JJ & Lynne, then finally ending up in the Bluewater Area to work as the evening DJ on 96.9 WBTI and on the Blue Water News Network.

 

  DENNIS STUCKEY:                                                       DEIDRE LYNN:

                                            

Sports Director Dennis Stuckey was born in Warren and has been working in radio since 1992 after graduating from the Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts.  After stints in Caro and Saginaw, Stuckey first came to Port Huron in 1995 to work for WSAQ and WHLS.  A year later he became the radio voice of the Port Huron Border Cats, a position he held for three seasons, before leaving Port Huron in the fall of 1999 to work for the Louisville Panthers of the American Hockey League.  In 2000 Dennis moved to Lake Charles, LA to work in the Western Professional Hockey League for a season before returning to Port Huron to work for RadioFirst and broadcast Port Huron Beacons games on WHLS.  Stuckey returns to the broadcast booth this season to call the play-by-play for the Port Huron Icehawks of the new International Hockey League.  Dennis has been involved in many community activities including 12 of the 13 "Community Roof Sits" to help raise funds for the St. Clair County Child Abuse and Neglect Council.  In June of 2007 the 39 year old married his wife Katie, a native of Richmond, and bought a home in Port Huron. 


Deidre Lynn is a Port Huron native who began her career in broadcasting in 2000 as a student at Port Huron Northern High School.  Upon graduation, she spent a couple of years doing college radio at St. Clair County Community College before heading to Western Michigan University.  Deidre came back home from Kalamazoo in 2005 and joined the crew at WHLS/WHLX, where she continues today doing sports for all of the RadioFirst Stations:  WHLS/WHLX, WPHM, WSAQ, and WBTI.  Deidre also is the overnight jock on Q Country 107. Her long range goals include sports broadcasting, eventually doing hockey play-by-play.