WFMU
Hugh Haggerty is an experienced ebook producer and freelancer at Simon and Schuster since November 2011, specializing in processing and coding text and InDesign files for print, ePub, and Kindle output. As a volunteer radio personality at WFMU since September 2011, Hugh takes on roles as a fill-in DJ and sound engineering assistant. Previous positions include Enumerator/Crew Leader Assistant at the U.S. Census Bureau in 2010, and Production Artist roles at CTI Graphics, CCI Communications, BookLinks, Peoples Education, and The Learning Annex from 2005 to 2008. Hugh also held various technical management positions at Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions from 1996 to 2003, along with a Network Manager/Production Editor role at PubWorks. Academic achievements include a Certificate in Graphic Design from Shillington Education and a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California.
WFMU
WFMU-FM is a listener-supported, non-commercial radio station broadcasting at 91.1 Mhz FM in Jersey City, NJ, right across the Hudson from lower Manhattan. It is currently the longest running freeform radio station in the United States. The station also broadcasts to the Hudson Valley and Lower Catskills in New York, Western New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania via it's 90.1 signal at WXHD in Mount Hope, NY. The station maintains an extensive online presence at WFMU.ORG which includes live audio streaming in several formats, over 8 years of audio archives, podcasts and a popular blog. Rolling Stone Magazine, The Village Voice, CMJ and the New York Press have all at one time or another called WFMU "the best radio station in the country" and the station has also been the subject of feature stories in The New York Times and on the BBC. In recent years the station has gained a large international following due it's online operations and counts Simpson's creator Matt Groening, film director Jim Jarmusch and Velvet Underground founder Lou Reed, among others, as devoted fans of the station. WFMU's programming ranges from flat-out uncategorizable strangeness to rock and roll, experimental music, 78 RPM Records, jazz, psychedelia, hip-hop, electronica, hand-cranked wax cylinders, punk rock, gospel, exotica, R&B, radio improvisation, cooking instructions, classic radio airchecks, found sound, dopey call-in shows, interviews with obscure radio personalities and notable science-world luminaries, spoken word collages, Andrew Lloyd Webber soundtracks in languages other than English as well as Country and western music.