Joe Cipriano

Cipriano was born September 8, 1954, in Waterbury, Connecticut. He attended Watertown High School. At age 14, Cipriano called into local disc jockey Jerry Wolf at WWCO-AM. He told Wolf that he aspired to become radio DJ and asked if he could visit the station to see what it was like. He would end up running errands and doing office work at the station on weekends and over the summer. When Cipriano was 16, he was hired to work on-air at WWCO-FM, a country music station, and WWCO-AM, a top-40 station, both in Waterbury. He was soon after hired at a third radio station, WDRC-FM, a top-40 station in Hartford. He used a different on-air pseudonym at each station.

After high school, Cipriano became the youngest on-air FM radio personality ever hired by NBC at age 19. It was there that he would meet his wife, Ann, on her first day at NBC as an AM news writer in 1976. They married in 1979.Cipriano has worked for the NBC, ABC, Fox and CBS TV and radio networks. His radio career includes having hosted The World Chart Show from 1995 to 2004 and occasionally filling in for Casey Kasem on American Top 40. From 1987 to 1992, Cipriano produced and hosted two shows that aired in Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka and Kobe, Japan: the L.A. Express and Toyota California Classics.

He has worked as an on-air personality using various names, including his birthname (Dave Cipriano), Dave Donovan, and Tom Collins, for the following radio stations:

KIIS-FM – Los Angeles

KKHR – Los Angeles (CBS Hitradio)

KHTZ-FM – Los Angeles (K-Hits)

WRQX – Washington, D.C. (ABC-Q107)

WKYS – Washington, D.C. (NBC)

WDRC AM/FM – Hartford, Connecticut

WWCO AM/FM – Waterbury, Connecticut