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Curricular Vitae of Jon Scott Maine's Wedding & Event Specialist:
Jon Scott has a professional radio background in the following formats:
Country; Top 40; Classic Rock and Oldies, His broadcast career spans three decades and
He has been heard all over the United States as the voice of dozens of radio and television stations.
Jon Scott holds a valid Notary Public Commission, which authorizes him to lawfully marry anyone within the jurisdiction of the State of Maine, and is also an ordained minister, and has a Doctor of Theology and Doctor of Divinity Degree, and can officiate weddings anywhere in the world, as well as any other traditional clerical acts.
At Trust-The-Entertainer we save our clients time and money by including Maine Notary Public or Wedding Officiant Services, with any wedding reception needing these services.
Dr. Jon Scott, Th.D, D.D.
| My interest in radio began as a silly young boy. I used to mimic radio DJs I was listening to on the radio, all the neighborhood kids and my classmates use to beg me to "Talk Like A Radio DJ" and I did. While the kids liked it, it drove my parents crazy. I use to hang out at WPOR AM & FM in Portland, I bugged the program director, who couldn't get rid of me, to let me practice in the production studios until I could run all the equipment as well as anyone, he eventually hired me to work Sunday mornings when the station ran most of its prerecorded programming. | One Sunday the Morning DJ didn't show up at noon to take over for me, so I followed the format but didn't talk, because until then I was only allowed to do the weather. Program Dirictor Bob Walker called me about 20 after the hour to find out why there was no DJ and I explained that no replacement arrived and reminded him of his instruction not to do more than weather, he asked me if I was ready for a real taste of on-air work, I said I was and he let me loose! Needless to say I jumped at this chance and I must have impressed the management because I got another actual weekend airshift every week on a regular basis. I left my part time position at WPOR for a full time airshift from six to midnight at WCOU AM & FM in Lewiston, at the time also a country station, where I was known as the country giant. These were my first professional radio days.
| After leaving WCOU I attended the University of Maine at Portland - Gorham and joined the airstaff at the college radio station WMPG *, which was a 10 watt station, but it was there that I met several future Maine radio professionals that I would end up working with, or against [competing formats] for years to come!
I next worked mornings at WPNO AM in Auburn, Maine when one of the DJs I met at WMPG, Dave Dionne called me and told me about the opening. From there I went to Portland radio station WLOB AM, the FM was playing "Portlands Best Rock" and we did top 40 on the AM side:
Benny Green, & Jon Scott broadcasting live at the South Portland McDonalds | Radio is an unstable form of employment, unless you want to move all over the country. In January of 1980 I went to work only to find the AM staff had been fired, to save money. I was lucky, the day after I got fired I was at home bumming out, and listening to WBLM, when I heard an advertisement for part time DJs. I sent in my tape and resume, and the next day Mike Bushey called me [what I didn't know was that he was the former program director at WPNO] and made an appointment for an interview. I was hired and started on the air at WBLM the very next Saturday at midnight! Within a week or two I was filling in for Program Director, Mike Bushey on a regular basis. I was made the stations "Product Manager" in charge of all products the station sold like T-shirts, belt buckles, belts, hats, sweat shirts, shoe laces, and many other Blimp paraphernalia!
Jose Diaz, Jon Scott & Mike Bushey WBLM's 10th anniversary April 1983 | I began my private DJ business while working at WBLM in 1982 and have continued it until today. From 1980 - 1985 I did every airshift that existed, including about 8 months on Morning Drive with Mark Persky. Boy did we get the station in trouble, several times... I worked with a GREAT crew, including R.J. Hanson, B.C. Cloutier, Jose Diaz [Hose Head], Mike Bushey, John Clark [the clean John], Mary-Ellen O'Brien [who later married my roommate & best friend] A.K.A. Mary-Ellen Harrington, Nina Jones, Dave Dionne, Mike "ED" Rice, Mark Matzel, Charlie Rose, Dick Landcaster, Tom Wallace, and of course the person who replaced me Herb Ivy, who was fresh out of college, UNH if I remember correctly. | After leaving the Blimp in November of 1985 I continued to expand my Private DJ business to the point it is a full time business, however my days in radio were not over. In 1989 WXGL sought me out and wanted me to be their 7 PM - 12 AM DJ, I was doing so many Friday night events and parties I had to turn them down. However they wanted me and made an accommodation so I could have any Fridays I needed off as well as all Saturdays.
WXGL Studios | From about 1990 through 1993, WXGL, "The Eagle" had a long running Sunday Night Sock-Hop broadcast live, on-the-air, from the Lewiston Ramada Inn, which they asked me to use my DJ equipment and Co-host with Steve Stantial. The show was a huge local success, on holiday weekends we would fill the place to capacity and had a line of people waiting to get in. | | |
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