Personalities

    
  Craig Senior Craig Senior

Craig Senior has been active in radio as an air personality, newsman, News Director and Program Director for over 50 years, including work in major market radio and frequent reporting for national and regional networks.  A graduate of the University of Hartford in Connecticut, he has been active in Pennsylvania radio in York, Lebanon, Harrisburg, Gettysburg and Carlisle since the early '70's.  He holds a Masters in business administration from Penn State Harrisburg.
     Craig is married with 3 adult children and is an active church member, and an avid bridge player and stamp collector.  He has also enjoyed doing play-by-play sports on radio and cable TV and is WIOO's voice of Cumberland Valley Eagles football.  He provides WIOO's local and regional news and plays the Country Classics weekday mornings on Couintry Gold Radio. 

 
       
  Ray Thomas

 Ray Thomas is Country Gold Radio’s 3 to 6 pm afternoon personality.  He also serves as the station’s Program Director, advertising copywriter and commercial production voice.  He’s a 1976 Shippensburg University graduate and has spent most of his career on the air at Cumberland Valley radio stations including 11 years in his present position with WIOO. 
 Ray owns and operates Ray Thomas DJ Entertainment, providing music and emcee services at wedding receptions, dances, and private parties.  Over the years, he has played for well over 2000 events large and small.
On the personal side, Ray and his wife Gayle have a 10-year-old daughter who is a fourth-grader at Iron Forge Elementary School in Boiling Springs.  His hobbies include music collecting and 40 years as “Ham” radio operator WA3KRG.

  
       
  Larry Nelson Larry Nelson has come a long, long way from his first job in radio in 1973. Since then he’s held every job you can have in a radio station. You can even find vintage Larry Nelson performances as host, interviewer, play-by-play, and color commentator on 80s AWA pro wrestling shows that still run on ESPN Classic TV.  
       
  John St. John John St. John was just a kid when he began broadcasting to his neighbors using a low power FM transmitter. But his career officially began at an Alabama Country station owned by the legendary Sam Phillips, of Sun Records and Elvis fame. Country music and Country radio have always been his true passion.  
       
  Marty Montell Marty Montell once worked at a station so small it was situated in the middle of a cow pasture. In summer, when the windows were open, a cow would occasionally stick a head inside and moo right over the news. Nowadays, it’s office buildings and air conditioning only, and flying airplanes in his spare time.  
       
  Dave West Dave West has traveled at bullet-speed in an F/A18 Hornet with the Blue Angels, and been stopped-dead by a raging bull (thankfully with no lasting effects). He has also interviewed numerous super stars, including Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Lorrie Morgan, Toby Keith, and Garth Brooks.  
       
  Jack Edwards Jack Edwards was born a ham – he was such a talker that his mom got him a teething microphone! He once danced on-stage wearing a duck costume for a station-sponsored Charlie Daniels event. He even drove a “Haunted Hearse.” Jack is married to his wife of now 25 years. Together they have 8 children.