MARK SATOLA, MIDDAY HOST (Monday through Friday, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM)

Mark Satola dazedly wandered into WCLV's old studios in the Terminal Tower in downtown Cleveland toward the end of November, 1977, and wandered out, just as dazed but gainfully employed, as an announcer, producer, syndication duplicator, tape editor, and after-hours receptionist. (Mr Satola would like to take this opportunity to apologize to everyone who called to find him in his trademark crabby mood.)

The station moved from the Terminal Tower to its present location in Warrensville Heights in 1986, but Mark found out where they were and continued on as evening and weekend announcer. In addition to his on-air duties, Mark wrote and produced "The 20th Century", a program about creepy modern music, which had a fanatically loyal audience, both of whom were bitterly disappointed when the series folded after a couple of years.

Those two listeners are sure to be listening to Mark's "Not the Dead White Male Composer's Hour", Sunday evenings at 9:00. This one hour show, presented under the auspices of the Bascom Little Fund, features works by members of the Cleveland Composer's Guild.

Among the WCLV produced and nationally distributed progrmams that Mark has written and produced are "The Cincinnati Pops on the Air" and the Vienna Philharmonic. He also punches computer buttons to prepare the "City Club Forum" programs for national distribution. 

His by-line appears on occasion in the Plain Dealer and elsewhere. He still can't get over the fact that these places actually pay him for his scribblings.

Mark's hobbies include naps, hardcore thrifting, messing up the house with his teen age son Nathan, and, with his long-suffering girlfriend Pamela, laughing AT people, not WITH them. His favorite color is not found in nature, and he could go for a large bowl of Minh Anh's cinnamon soup right about now. He is currently accepting donations of weird 1950s lamps, all-tube televisions, Jetsons-style Boontonware, and truly tasteless pin-up art. Mark has been with WCLV since 1977, but still doesn't know what he wants to be when he grows up.