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'Big Wave Dave (Radio Personality)
Big Wave Dave (BWD) is a Radio Personality in Los Angeles on KFSH 95.9 The Fish The Fish Los Angeles and has been on the air with The Fish since February 2002. He has a passion for encouraging families and has worked effortlessly on creating awareness for the plight of the poor and disenfranchised in Jamaica, Haiti, The Phillipines and El Salvador. His upbeat, friendly, real and authentic "guy like you" presentation on the air has generated a listening audience to well over 380,000 listeners in his daypart and over 700,000 weekly listeners on The Fish. He has coined the term, "VIG (Very Important Guppy) for kids and is very caller intensive on the air sharing stories about life. He talks freely about his wife Claire, his four kids and "Jack The Pug".

'Biography
Dave was born in Tucson, Arizona July 23, 1968 and when he was 9, moved and was raised in Milford, NH. He graduated from Dublin Christian Academy DCAin Dublin NH in 1986 and moved to Nashville, TN to attend Trevecca Nazarene University {Trevecca Nazarene University where he double majored in Communications/Human Relations (BS) and Theater (BA) and earned those degrees in 1990. He fell in love with Theater and Radio at a very young age and has acted in over 100 plays including Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, The Mouse Trap by Agatha Christie and You Can't Take It With You by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. When he was a Junior in High School, he earned his first Theater award for choreographing and acting in a two-man presentation set to Keith Green's 'Prodigal Son Suite'.

In 2006, BWD earned his MBA from Hope International University {in Fullerton, CA

Career
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BWD has worked just about every format in radio: Jazz, Country, Southern Gospel, Classic Rock, Top 40, CHR, News-Talk, Hip-Hop, Classical and Contemporary Christian. He's an award winning copy writer, voice-over guy and radio personality. He often shares that when he was six years old, he took "The Cat In The Hat" by Dr. Seuss, read it into a Radio Shack Tape Recorder and thus began his radio career. He adds that if his Mother ever releases the tape of it, "there will be an additional homicide reported in the papers that day."

List of Stations Big Wave Dave has worked:


 * WNAZ-FM-Nashville (1986-1990) Trevecca Nazarene College Station (On-Air, Music Director)
 * WDER-AM Derry NH (1988) (On Air, Music Director, Production)
 * WNAH-AM Nashville (1989) (On Air, Production)
 * WLAC-AM/FM-Nashville (1989) (Producer/Screener, Producer of "Nashville After Dark-Weekends"
 * WLTY-FM-Norfolk  (1990-1991) (On Air)
 * WKSV-FM Norfolk  (1990-1991) (On Air, Program Director)
 * WLAC-AM/FM-Nashville (1991-2001) Creative Services Director, On Air
 * WSIX-FM, WRVW-FM, WNRQ-FM, WJCE-FM, WZTO-FM-Nashville (1996-2001) Creative Services Director, On-Air
 * KFSH-FM (2002-Present) (On Air, Director of Imaging Salem Los Angeles)