Mary Lucia
Encyclopedia
Mary Lucia is an on-air radio personality who currently hosts a weekday drive time
music show for Minnesota Public Radio
station 89.3 The Current
in St. Paul
, Minnesota
.
Lucia began broadcasting on Minnesota
's Rev 105
, where she hosted both a regular weeknight evening shift and was also the host of the local music show "Something Else" (named after a song by local band Kruddlerhttp://www.myspace.com/kruddler) which broadcast live from Nye's Piano Bar.
After Disney
purchased Rev 105 and changed its name and format, Lucia maintained her dual role as host of a regular dayshift as well as a local music show called 'Popular Creeps' (named after a song by former Replacements drummer Chris Mars
). After Steve Nelson left the morning show that he co-hosted with Brian Oake
, Lucia was paired with Oake for morning drive time.
When Disney changed the format again to rhythmic oldies, the entire air staff, including Lucia, was fired. Lucia went on to host a program on AM 1500 and to cameo on KLBB before being picked up by Minnesota Public Radio in January 2005.
Lucia has also appeared in commercials, live theater productions, freelanced for the Minnesota publication The Rake for 5 years, and appeared in the indie film
The Last Word (2003).
Drive time
Drive time is the daypart analog to prime time for radio broadcasting. It consists of the morning hours when listeners wake up, get ready, and/or head to work or school, and the afternoon hours when they are heading home and before their evening meal. These are the periods where the number of...
music show for Minnesota Public Radio
Minnesota Public Radio
Minnesota Public Radio , is the flagship National Public Radio member network for the state of Minnesota. With its three services, News & Information, Classical Music and The Current, MPR operates a 42-station regional radio network in the upper Midwest serving over 8 million people...
station 89.3 The Current
KCMP
-WCAL:The station began with physics experiments in 1918 when five students and a professor built a small radio transmitter at St. Olaf College. Using a wire antenna strung between the campus chapel and the college's "Old Main" , signals from these experiments were picked up as far away as New...
in St. Paul
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Saint Paul is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota. The city lies mostly on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the area surrounding its point of confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Minneapolis, the state's largest city...
, Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
.
Lucia began broadcasting on Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
's Rev 105
WGVX
WGVX, WGVY and WGVZ is a trimulcast serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul region, and an area of central Minnesota to the north. The three stations are now owned by Cumulus Media, along with sister stations KQRS-FM and KXXR....
, where she hosted both a regular weeknight evening shift and was also the host of the local music show "Something Else" (named after a song by local band Kruddlerhttp://www.myspace.com/kruddler) which broadcast live from Nye's Piano Bar.
After Disney
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...
purchased Rev 105 and changed its name and format, Lucia maintained her dual role as host of a regular dayshift as well as a local music show called 'Popular Creeps' (named after a song by former Replacements drummer Chris Mars
Chris Mars
Chris Mars is an American artist and musician. He was the drummer for seminal Minneapolis, Minnesota alternative rock band The Replacements and later joined informal supergroup Golden Smog before launching a solo career. He is also a painter, and has more or less left music behind to concentrate...
). After Steve Nelson left the morning show that he co-hosted with Brian Oake
Brian Oake
Brian Oake is a radio broadcast personality in the Minneapolis, Minnesota radio market. Oake currently is a host on KTCZ-FM , in the afternoons, and also hosts a special weekend program on that station called Freedom Rock....
, Lucia was paired with Oake for morning drive time.
When Disney changed the format again to rhythmic oldies, the entire air staff, including Lucia, was fired. Lucia went on to host a program on AM 1500 and to cameo on KLBB before being picked up by Minnesota Public Radio in January 2005.
Lucia has also appeared in commercials, live theater productions, freelanced for the Minnesota publication The Rake for 5 years, and appeared in the indie film
Independent film
An independent film, or indie film, is a professional film production resulting in a feature film that is produced mostly or completely outside of the major film studio system. In addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies, independent films are also produced...
The Last Word (2003).