Debbie Mazella has joined the WJRZ radio family. Mazella will be the new disc jockey from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on WJRZ (100.1 FM), a Greater Media radio station.
Mazella says she may have grown up in New York, but she has been addicted to playing ski ball on the boardwalks of the Jersey Shore since she was a little girl visiting her grandparents at their Ocean Grove summer home. Mazella moved to New Jersey five years ago.
Before joining the Greater Media family, Mazella, whose radio career began in 1994, worked at various radio stations in New Jersey and New York, holding such positions as assistant program director and music director, among others. She was even a traffic reporter for a New York station.
In 2008, Mazella was inducted into the FMQB (Friday Morning Quarterback, a prestigious radio trade publication) Hall of Fame, having been voted one of the top five music directors in a secondary market.
Mazella realized she wanted to be on the radio and around the music she loves as early as age 11. Besides radio and music, Mazella is passionate about her cats and stays involved with Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) fundraisers.
Mazella also does a lot of events with the March of Dimes in both New York and New Jersey, and usually emcees each year with Joe Causi of CBS-FM, New York.
With the addition of Mazella to mid days, Glen Kalina will move to the afternoon DJ position from 2 to 7 p.m., and Joe Stevens can be heard nights from 7 p.m. to midnight.
WRAT-FM and WJRZ-FM are radio stations of Greater Media Inc., which is the parent company of 23 AM and FM radio stations in the Boston, Detroit, Charlotte, New Jersey and Philadelphia markets. Greater Media also owns a group of weekly newspapers in central New Jersey and several telecommunications towers, located throughout the United States.
Susan Koval, a Millstone Township resident and president of Koval Associates, has been awarded the New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners (NJAWBO) 2009 Nancy C. Righter Service award. The award celebrates a member who, in service and dedication to NJAWBO and community, best exemplifies the spirit of Nancy C. Righter, a past Atlantic Chapter president and state membership chair, who tragically died in 1991 as the result of an auto accident. NJAWBO is the oldest statewide organization in New Jersey with a mission to address the concerns and issues of business ownership by women.