Anthony Scillia
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Anthony Scillia aka "Tony Mangia" (born July 10, 1982 in Hackensack, New Jersey
Hackensack, New Jersey
Hackensack is a city in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States and the county seat of Bergen County. Although informally called Hackensack, it was officially named New Barbadoes Township until 1921. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city population was 43,010....

) is a radio and television personality. Scillia was raised in his father's hometown of Lodi, New Jersey
Lodi, New Jersey
Lodi is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 24,136. The borough of Lodi is governed under the 1923 Municipal Manager Law.Lodi owes its name to the Italian city of Lodi...

, a town that was made up of predominately Italian American
Italian American
An Italian American , is an American of Italian ancestry. The designation may also refer to someone possessing Italian and American dual citizenship...

s.

Radio

Anthony "Tony Mangia" Scillia is most recently known for his radio show on "Brave New Radio" WPSC-FM (88.7 FM, Wayne, NJ), The Tony Mangia Show - Radio: Italian Style. It is the only positive Italian/Italian-American themed show to be broadcast from New Jersey. The show feeds off Anthony’s love of his Italian culture and heritage. He plays a wide variety of Italian and Italian-American music from many genres, old and new. The show is broadcast live every Sunday from 3 PM-6 PM.

Scillia has featured numerous guests on the show, including:
  • Chef and TV personality Lidia Mattichio Bastianich
    Lidia Bastianich
    Lidia Matticchio Bastianich is an American chef, author, and restaurateur....

  • Tony Award winner and former lead in the Broadway musical Jersey Boys
    Jersey Boys
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    , John Lloyd Young
    John Lloyd Young
    John Lloyd Mills Young is an American actor and singer. In 2006, he won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for his role as Frankie Valli in Broadway's Jersey Boys. He is the only American actor to date to have received a Lead Actor in a Musical Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics...

  • Singer/songwriter/sctor Frank Stallone
    Frank Stallone
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  • Official Bobby Darin
    Bobby Darin
    Bobby Darin , born Walden Robert Cassotto, was an American singer, actor and musician.Darin performed in a range of music genres, including pop, rock, jazz, folk and country...

     archivist Jimmy Scalia
    Jimmy Scalia
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  • Bobby Darin's personal manager Stephen "Boom Boom" Blauner
    Stephen Blauner
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  • Italian singer Giada Valenti
    Giada Valenti
    Giada Valenti is an Italian singer, born in Portogruaro, Venice. Valenti started singing and playing piano at age seven. She studied music theory and piano at Santa Cecilia and got her music degree at G. Tartini in Trieste....

  • Sicilian folk singer Michela Musolino
  • Singer/songwriter Joe Pagetta
  • Italian-American singer/songwriter Maristella
  • Singer/acoustic guitarist Anthony Fiumano
  • Comedian Mike Marino
  • Singer Bobby Valli
  • Poet Salvatore Amico Buttaci
  • Award-winng author Paul Salsini
  • Olive oil aficionado Johnny DeCarlo
  • Actor Gaetano Iacono (co-star of Doughboys)
  • Musician/comedian/entertainer Larry Cutrone
  • Filmmaker Stephanie Foerster (Watch The Pallino)


The show has been broadcast live since October 2006.

Scillia was the 2007 Maltese Award Winner for Outstanding New On-Air Personality. He received WPSC's September 2007 DJ of the Month.

Scillia also hosted Mangia In The Morning, which was a classic/garage/Jersey rock show, broadcast from October 2006 to September 2007.

Lodi Late Nite

Scillia was co-creator and host of Lodi Late Nite, which was a cult classic public-access television
Public-access television
Public-access television is a form of non-commercial mass media where ordinary people can create content television programming which is cablecast through cable TV specialty channels...

 cable TV show broadcast from December 1999 until September 2000. The show followed a similar format to that of David Letterman
David Letterman
David Michael Letterman is an American television host and comedian. He hosts the late night television talk show, Late Show with David Letterman, broadcast on CBS. Letterman has been a fixture on late night television since the 1982 debut of Late Night with David Letterman on NBC...

. Richard Moschella was co-creator and co-host. Louis Jasmine was co-creator. The show also had such recurrent guests as Artie Magliannico, Johnny Paparazzi and Andy Martin (lounge singer extraordinaire and secret member of the Rat Pack
Rat Pack
The Rat Pack was a group of actors originally centered on Humphrey Bogart. In the mid-1960s it was the name used by the press and the general public to refer to a later variation of the group, after Bogart's death, that called itself "the summit" or "the clan," featuring Frank Sinatra, Dean...

).

Independent Variety Showcaze

Scillia also created and hosted Independent Variety Showcaze (2004–2005). The Showcaze, as it was called, was a public access show that featured people, places and events within north New Jersey. The Showcaze’s guests included Kevin Knight & Camp IWF Wrestling School, psychic Jane Doherty, make-up artist Jeremy Selenfriend and Johnny De Carlo (olive oil aficionado and importer of Italian goods).

Film

Scillia has directed three short student films including To Each His Own (2002), Silence is Golden (2002) and Willow Creek (2005). He has also written a short script entitled Bocce which shared Guild of Italian-American Actors' Film Fest's Italian-American Heritage Award in 2008.

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