Staff
Radio General Manager – Dan Wolfe [Read Biography]
Program Director – Jody McManus [Read Biography]
Production Director – Bill Flowers [Read Biography]
Producer & Promotions Director – Mike Azinger [Read Biography]
Secretary to the General Manager – Tina Spach [Read Biography]
Biographies
Dan Wolfe
Dan brings a broad range of skills and experience to the station, all of which are proving to be “key” components to his role as GM. This will be the third station he has been privileged to oversee.
His career has been both varied and diverse—a career that has been characterized by a gift for teambuilding.
Dan loves sports. He was a standout high school athlete, an endeavor that helped to hone his skills as both a team player and a leader. He later coached Little League baseball, high school basketball, and men’s softball and is a certified referee in four sports.
A graduate of Hyles-Anderson College in Crown Point, Indiana (B.S., M.C.), Dan served on the college staff for 23 years. During this time, he worked as activities director, then added athletic director and special events coordinator to his resume, building solid teams in all three areas. He also served for five years as Editor of Christian Womanhood, a publication with a worldwide circulation. At Christian Womanhood he worked on the planning committee for their annual conference, an event he has now emceed for 14 years. This is one of many important venues in a media career that has spanned more than three decades. Dan has written over 20 plays and has seen numerous articles, several poems and a book published. He has recorded four solo music CDs and has produced over 500 videos, programs, and comedies.
Additionally, Dan is the technical media director and program director of First Baptist Church of Hammond. He oversees the First Baptist Church Media Team, a volunteer staff of over 40 who assist the church on a weekly basis with sound, video, and lighting. He created the “Church With a Heart” radio and television programs, the latter of which is broadcast weekly on two Chicago area stations. Active in the local community, he also serves as vice president for the Downtown Hammond Council and served on the steering committee for Downtown Hammond Redevelopment. Each Sunday, Dan teaches the Crossroads Adult Bible Class for First Baptist Church. His breadth of experience and his love for people have made his role at WRTW radio a perfect fit.
He and his wife Janice have seven children.
Jody McManus
jody@thekeyfm.com
Jody McManus was born and raised in Colorado. Upon graduation from South High School in 1984, Jody pursued a career in the culinary arts, assuming the role of apprentice chef for Writers Manor, a four-star hotel that was the owner of Disney’s Celebrity Sports Center. He was later promoted to the position of sous chef at the sports center.
His formal training would serve him well in the plans God would have for him. In November of 1988, Jody moved to Oregon to attend Western Culinary School, where he met his wife Tracey. After graduation Jody was hired by Red Robin, Inc., as kitchen manager; shortly thereafter, he was promoted to new store training kitchen manager. When not assisting new Red Robin franchises, Jody was enlisted to help struggling stores improve their quality control.
After nearly two decades of success in restaurant management, God intervened and changed his life’s course. In 1998 the Lord guided Jody into Christian Radio. Assistant Pastor Jay Towne enlisted Jody as a volunteer at KOLU 90.1 in Pasco Washington, a ministry of Riverview Baptist Church. In addition to a variety of on-mic and recording duties, Jody was able to bring his talent for detail to the station’s programming department, both as a live fill-in host for the popular Kid’s Morning Program and as an input technician for the station’s automation system. Quality control was vital to this job—much as it was during his culinary career.
Inspired by the teaching and preaching he was inputting into the station’s computer, Jody surrendered to full-time Christian service. Shortly thereafter, the McManuses moved to Crown Point, Indiana, to attend Hyles-Anderson College. During his Bible training, Jody began working for Dr. Bob Marshall as the programmer for the church’s Internet radio broadcast. Following graduation Brother Jody was hired in December 2007 as program director for WRTW Radio. Today much of the fruit of his efforts can be heard in the broadcast content of Powerful, Positive Radio—90.5 The Key.
Bill Flowers
bill@thekeyfm.com
In 1984 Bill Flowers graduated from Parkland College in Champaign, Illinois, with a degree in broadcast communications. Throughout the next decade, he worked at radio stations in Illinois, West Virginia, Maine, and Connecticut as an announcer, commercial producer, and writer. In 1990, a year after coming to Christ, Bill took a job as a producer with the American Comedy Network (ACN), one of the nation’s largest syndicated morning show services. He was later promoted to the position of executive producer. In 1994, God afforded Bill the opportunity to leave full-time secular radio and move back to his native Maine to start Urbanwild Productions, a copywriting and commercial production company. During the company’s 13-year history, Urbanwild served over 40 radio stations in 14 different states with a staff of four. Urbanwild won commercial production awards in both New York and Maine. During the company’s early years God stirred Bill to serve Him full-time, and in 1998 he was called to preach. Bill moved to Hammond to attend Hyles-Anderson College in 2000 and graduated in 2004. During this time, he served in the Chapel Ministry and operated his production company from Northwest Indiana. In 2008 he joined the church staff full-time to begin work on WRTW, our new radio station. Today Bill serves as an announcer-writer-producer for the station, under the direction of Dan Wolfe.
Mike Azinger
mike@thekeyfm.com
Mike joined WRTW in December of 2009, bringing with him experience from the business and political world mixed with a passion to see the Bible exalted in American culture once again. Mike graduated from Hyles-Anderson College with a bachelor of science degree and a masters of pastoral theology degree. After a five-year stint in the insurance business, Mike ran for U.S. Congress in Ohio in 1998 and again in 2000, winning the Republican nomination on his second try. After a number of years of working in politics and the family self-storage business in West Virginia, Mike followed his dream of working for Dr. Jack Schaap and moved his wife and two boys back to Hammond, Indiana, in 2008. Mike is now happily at work in the radio ministry of First Baptist Church of Hammond, and his family is blessed to be under the ministry of Pastor Jack Schaap. Since moving to Hammond, Mike and his beautiful wife Jackie have had an addition to the family, making a total of two boys and a girl: Tommy, 10, Zachary, 8, and Sophie, 2.
Tina Spach
tina@thekeyfm.com
Tina Spach has been employed in the ministries of FBC of Hammond for twelve years. For the last seven years, she has served as the secretary to the general manager, Dan Wolfe.