Hi, I’m Tyler Woodward. My journey into radio started the day my mom handed me a little AM/FM radio when I was five years old. That moment lit a spark that never went out. I grew up in Tampa, Florida, obsessed with how radio and TV worked—not just the content, but the technology behind it. By age 10, I was tuning in religiously to the MJ & BJ Morning Show on WFLZ 93.3. I even got to sit in for the final hour of their show once, and that solidified everything for me. This was it. This is what I wanted to do.
In high school, I dove into television production, journalism, and even volunteered at Tampa’s public access cable channel. I made shows with friends in my bedroom—some good, some cringey, but all part of the learning curve. At 16, I became the youngest student accepted into the Connecticut School of Broadcasting’s Tampa campus, which led to internships at WWBA and WHBO.
The real turning point came when I moved to Wisconsin with my wife Cassie. While she skated with a local roller derby team, I jumped in as their play-by-play announcer and website manager. Through that, I met folks from Midwest Family Broadcasting. One of them heard me and said I had the voice for radio. I handed over a demo—and before I knew it, I was working nights on WRQT 95.7 The Rock, eventually filling in for prime-time slots and doing sports work on WKTY AM.
In 2018, I transitioned into engineering when our assistant engineer left. Our chief engineer, knew I was into tech and networking and brought me into the engineering department. That’s where I truly fell in love—with the backend. Transmitters, networks, virtual machines—I couldn’t get enough. In 2021, I joined the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board as a Broadcast Engineer, supporting WPR and PBS Wisconsin across the southwest region of the state. I earned my CBNT from the Society of Broadcast Engineers and have been deepening my knowledge ever since.
Today, I still do this work full-time—and I bring that experience, passion, and curiosity to my podcast.