MIKE REEVES BIO 

Lead Host of the Big Show on NewsTalk 820 AM Mike Reeves maybe best known to radio listeners as the co-host of the Nancy and Mike Morning Show.  A job he held for 7 years in a row.  

Mike is a graduate of the University of Florida and a long time Tampa Bay Resident.   

He has worked for several successful radio stations since 1990, all of them locally, with the exception of one year doing a morning show in Dallas.   

“Those 7 years of co-host for Nancy and Mike in the Morning were a ton of fun, but I decided to leave” says Mike, because I had always had a dream of doing Talk Radio.  “When I was offered a solo afternoon show on a local FM music station, I took it, with the short term goal of working on my solo act, and the long term goal of doing talk.”   

Mike joined Genesis Communications at the beginning of 2009, where he did some audio production work and started “Wining and Dining with Mike Reeves”, a weekend show on NewsTalk 820. The show was in instant success with advertisers, due to Mike’s unparalleled credibility on the restaurant scene, because of his hosting Dining Out on Bay News 9. The series has been on the air for over ten years on Tampa Bays only local 24 hour news channel, Bright House Cable Channel 9.   
 

When not hard at work on air, or, preparing for another “Big Show” with co hosts and long time friends Roger Schulman, Jo Jo Walker and Shayna Lance, Mike can be found stretched out on the couch at home, watching the Military Channel, and ducking phone calls from his wife, who’s “honey do list” according to MIke, “gets longer and longer every day”.   

“Hosting the Big Show is a dream come true” says Mike.  “We take the news seriously, but not ourselves.  That’s why, when you tune in, you’ll not only find out what’s going on, but also have some good laughs too.”  

Mike has been married to his wife Kimberly, since 1991, and they have three children, two cats, a pug(dog) and a gerbil.   

Now that he’s achieved his professional dream, there’s one more thing Mike wants to do. “I’ve always wanted to join the local chapter of the Procrastinator’s Club” he says, “but they keep postponing the meetings.” 

The Big Show airs Monday Through Friday from 6am to 9am on News Talk AM 820, WWBA.  

Shayna Lance 

Shayna Lance has been an Associated Press Award winning news anchor/reporter in Tampa, Florida for the past 15 years.  Her journalism awards include recognition in Breaking News, Investigative Journalism and Individual Achievement.   

Currently Shayna can be heard as the feminine perspective on “The Big Show” morning team of NewsTalk AM 820 WWBA; Tampa Bay.  She is a graduate with honors from the University of South Florida.   

Shayna’s first book, “Sugar Pop Thoughts,” was published in audio book form and went on to win the Golden Earphone Award from AudioFile Magazine and was nominated for the highest award an audio book can receive: The Audio Publishers Association Audies® 2009 for Best Original Work. Her second novel, “How to Beat a Bad Breakup” is due out in Spring 2010.   

Impassioned about her community, Shayna does hundreds of hours of volunteer work a year. She lives with her 5-year-old daughter and 13-year-old golden retriever in Riverview, Florida.

Roger P. Schulman 

News Director and Morning News Anchor, Roger Schulman has been a fixture in the Tampa Bay radio market for 38 years. Born in Paterson, NJ Roger moved at age 5. He grew up in Freeport, Illinois where Roger attended High school at Freeport High in Illinois.  After high school he attended Highland Community College in Freeport. Shortly after he served in the US army and worked for America forces network, Korea and Germany and he has flown in a US air force F-16 jet.  

After the army he attended USF and majored in Mass Communications. He has been working in broadcasting in the bay area since 1972. He has interviewed General Norman Schwartzkopf, Gerald ford, Presidents George Bush and Ronald Regan. He has covered numerous stories such as the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse, sinking of the Black Torn, Coast Guard Cutter and the great Ybor City fire.. At Tampa General Hospital he participated in surgeries as part of the hospitals White Coat Program.  

He has a large Dutch Shepard named Frezi. He says he loves working for Genesis because it is locally owned and the ownership is interested in doing good radio.

Jo Jo Walker 

Technical Producer of the Big Show, JoJo Walker grew up in Memphis, TN. and learned at an early age that a sense of humor was a great way not to get beat up. As long as people were laughing, no one was mad enough to hit you!  

Since coming to the Tampa Bay area in the 80’s, JoJo has worked at most of the markets radio stations. Having done mornings on some of the most popular stations, JoJo used his common sense to get big laughs anytime he could. JoJo says “Working at News Talk 820 is a dream come true, because I don’t have to stop my train of thought to play a song that I’ve played 50,000 times before!”  My wife has told me that “Just because I’m a Republican doesn’t mean that I’m always Right!”   

JoJo loves the Tampa Bay area and waking them up with a laugh to go along with their coffee, because waking up is stressful enough. When not working to get you out of bed with a smile, JoJo is a family man and home body. Mainly because, getting up at 3:00am makes you get tired by 9:00pm. We all get wrinkles…you might as well get them by laughing!

JoJo