Darryl Berger
Program Director / Show Host
Darryl joined the WNPV family in 1985 and served as News Director for 9 years before becoming the Program Director in the mid-90’s. He’s done news for and hosted the morning show for more than 21 years, but is perhaps best known as the host of ‘Comment Please by Univest’ which he has done since 1987. “The show isn’t a platform for me to forward my political or personal agenda,” says the usually affable host. “The program provides a daily slice of life for the folks who live in Montgomery and Bucks Counties.”
Darryl has received dozens of broadcast awards for news, sports and talk programming from the Associated Press, Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters, Philadelphia Press Association and Society of Professional Journalists. He was named Consumer of the Year in 1998 by the Pennsylvania Association of Weights and Measures. Darryl also has received the regional award for public service from the Social Security Administration.
Darryl grew up in Pennsburg and graduated from Upper Perkiomen High School. He attended Drexel University and Montgomery County Community College prior to breaking into radio at a public station in Warminster. There he fell in love with broadcasting in 1981 and Vicki Bailey in 1983. Fortunately both remain in his life, on the radio at AM-1440 and with the now Vicki Berger in New Hope, Pa.
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Randy Brock
News Director
Randy Brock has been WNPV's news director since March of 2000. He previously worked part-time for the station from 1990-92.
He has been in the radio business since 1961, when he was still in high school. He graduated that year from Jamestown High School in New York and graduated from Temple University with a degree in Secondary English Education. He was already in the broadcasting business, and decided that he liked radio stations better than classrooms.
After leaving his hometown, he worked for radio stations in Buffalo, Syracuse, Boston, Denver, Hartford and Philadelphia. The Philadelphia stations included WFIL and WIBG in the 1970s and WPEN and WWDB in the 1980s and 90s.
He has also written more than 500 freelance newspaper stories and a handful of magazine stories over the years.
At WNPV he anchors the early-morning "AM Edition" local newscasts, then develops new stories later in the day. He attends most Montgomery County Commissioners meetings, as well as various other meetings and news conferences. He also goes to historic re-enactments and other local community events, mostly on weekends, and runs stories about them on Monday morning.
He has brought home several awards for the station, including "Best Regularly Scheduled Newscast" awards for six consecutive years.
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Rich Gunning
Production Manager / Assistant Program Director
Rich Gunning has been a familiar voice in Montgomery and Bucks Counties since the early 1990's.
He has been with "The Talk of The Suburbs" since 1994, currently serving as Assistant Program Director. In addition to his programming duties, Rich can be found in WNPV's recording studio, maintaining the station's audio files. "That's where the real action is," he often jokes.
After a three-year stint as a recording engineer and fill-in DJ for Armed Forces Radio and Television Service in Germany, Rich came back to his native Philadelphia-region. He then went to work on-air for WBUX in Doylestown, WDEL in Wilmington and the now-defunct "Eagle 106" in Philly, all while finishing his formal education in Tactical Communications with The U.S. Army Reserves.
Since 1998, Rich's voice has been heard on hundreds of national, regional and local Radio & TV commercials. He also works part-time as a traffic reporter in Philadelphia, and operates his own web-based voice-over business.
Rich currently lives in Abington Township and is an artist, amateur photographer, horror movie and true-crime story buff.
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Visit Rich at his website www.richgunning.com
Phil Hunt
General Manager
Born and raised in Lansdale, PA, Phil began his broadcasting careeras a part-time disc jockey in 1977. Since that time he has held a variety of positions at WNPV, including account executive, sports director, and program director. He has been the General Manager of WNPV since 1986.
Phil is an active board member of the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters and currently serves as Vice Chairman for Radio Broadcasting. He is active in many community organizations including his church, the North Penn United Way, and Rotary International. Phil is also on the Board of Directors of the North Penn Community Health Foundation and currently serves as Chairman.
He enjoys playing golf, traveling, and the company of family and friends. He's also an avid John Wayne fan.
Phil lives in Lansdale with his wife Wendy and their daughter Donavan, who is a senior at Penn State.
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Chuck Irwin
Show Host / Director of Public Service Annoucements
Chuck Irwin has been a part of the WNPV family since 1988. You can listen to him weekday afternoons on The PM Edition, as well as on the Delaware Valley's most popular big band program, "Echoes of an Era"!
Originally from Indianapolis, Chuck hosted his first big band program in 1969 and worked as an announcer at Top-40 radio stations in Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne and Muncie. He came to the Philadelphia-region in 1977 for stints at WIBG and WNAR, before joining the staff at WNPV. In addition to his afternoon-drive duties, Chuck is the host of "Echoes of an Era", Sunday nights from 6:20 to 10pm.
Chuck lives in historic Bucks County with his lovely wife Evelyn. Although now "empty nesters", they enjoy spending time with their seven kids and 5 grandchildren. When not at the radio station, you can find Chuck woodworking and record collecting. His other interests include antique radio receivers and playing Ragtime music well into the wee hours of the morning - much to the delight (or chagrin) of his neighbors!
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Dave McCrork
Engineer
He is arguably the stations "MVP" - chief engineer Dave McCrork, the man who keeps WNPV on the air and all its equipment running smoothly.
Dave is a Wissahickon graduate and has been in the industry for more than five decades, starting at the tender age of 11. He earned his diploma in Broadcast Engineering from the Cleveland Institute in 1967 while later obtaining an F.C.C. General Class Radiotelephone Operators License.
Dave has operated his own business since 1973. In addition to being the chief engineer at WNPV, he retains the same title at suburban radio stations WNAP and WISP.
Dave's value to the radio station goes well beyond his mechanical abilities. Dave's sense of humor can brighten any-body's day!
He and his wife Joanne live in Lansdale.
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Visit Dave's website at www.wnar-am.com
Jeff Nolan
Sports Director /Comment Please by Univest Producer / Webmaster
 Jeff Nolan’s introduction to the WNPV listening audience began in the year 2000 as host of the Nauticom Sports Network Football Scoreboard Show. Jeff and the scoreboard show, in its current form, became a regular fixture the following year.
While serving as the stations sports director, Jeff's duties also include remote engineer, show producer, fill-in anchor and webmaster.
In addition, Jeff is the radio play-by-play voice of Rider University women’s basketball, the USA Hockey National Championships and handles the television play by play role for the Lehigh Valley Hockey League on Service Electric Television.
Jeff and his wife Joann reside in Perkiomenville and are parents to three children, twins Joshua and Amber (26) and Tanner. (21)
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