I've been loving this business since I was 10 years old and sitting in my parent's living room, making commercials and playing music and just thinking what it would be like to be a radio personality. 

My first chance to just get a feel for thing came when I was 16 years old at WCNX in Middletown, Connecticut and I got to meet Jason McCarter who let me sit in a production studio and get a feel for what it would be like to "spin" records ns I was hooked. 

I went to college in Bennington, Vermont for Communications and graduated in 1984.  In 1986, I got my first radio job at a station in Albany, NY working the Midnight to 6am Saturday night/Sunday morning shift.  I remember driving home the morning of October 4th, 1987 durinng that freak snowstorm that dumped so much snow.  Where were you when that happened?  I'm sure if you're old enough you remember. 

I then moved my voice to Bennington Vermont in Jume of 1988, where I went to college and for the next 12 1/2 years I was at WBTN/WHGC where I did a little bit of everything, but that's what you did on a small radio station.  When that station was bought out by Public Radio, I found a position in Rutland , VT, where I was until November when I was aksed to come to Albany to build a radio station and on November 5th 2001 Magic radio was born in Albany, NY. 

Now, I have the pleasure of bringing my talents to the Hudson Valley where you're able to hear me weeknights from 7 to midnight on WBPM.

email Ben Patten ...  ben@9292wbpm.com