![]() To say it was the perfect match is an understatement. He had some smaller market stations on his resume, but RIFF in Detroit was his first major market one. I’ve been doing it for so long.” He told me veteran radio programmer, Buzz Knight suggested him for the job. “I actually feel like it’s part of my identity at this point. I asked him what it meant to be the voice of a heritage station like WRIF. That’s when things really started for him in this tough field. While doing traffic reporting and the like, he said he started doing voice work in 1999 as the imaging director for WRKO. I graduated Boston University early and got hired, um, right out of college to be the imaging director for WEEI and WRKO” I ended up getting an internship at a talk radio station, which ended up being good cuz there were just a lot more opportunities for me to do talk stuff. ![]() I tried to apply to be an intern at a rock radio station in Boston, but they didn’t want me, never called me back. “I started actually as an intern in Boston my freshman year of college, in 1995. His journey as a voice over talent began around 1995. He said about five years ago he completely lost all vision. He said his sight was bad in his teens, manageable in his 20s, before he had start using a cane while walking in his late 30s. He told me he started losing his sight around the age of 8, due to a degenerative eyesight disease called Stargardt disease. Here’s where the story becomes very unique and inspirational…Pete is blind. Pete Gustin has been the voice of RIFF since around 2009. This is a story about someone you may not have thought much about, until now.
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