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What Happened to Matt Defazio?
Posted by: cabbagepatcho ()
Date: October 09, 2018 04:02PM

Did Matt Defazio from WMAL get fired/replaced, or is he just on vacation?

While listening one day I heard this new voice in Defazio's usual traffic spot w/ Larry O' Connor, something Rodriguez, and the new guy has been on every day since.

I didn't hear any explanation about it either, but I just might've missed it.

Does anyone know what happened to Matt Defazio from WMAL?

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Re: What Happened to Matt Defazio?
Posted by: Pinko ()
Date: October 10, 2018 12:12AM

I was just wondering this the other day. Not a ckue.

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Re: What Happened to Matt Defazio?
Posted by: No ()
Date: October 15, 2018 05:47PM

Wondering the same thing

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Re: What Happened to Matt Defazio?
Posted by: radiostar ()
Date: October 15, 2018 09:11PM

umm... ...He got a better job, shoing horses.

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Re: What Happened to Matt Defazio?
Posted by: Rusty Shackleford ()
Date: October 16, 2018 12:36AM

He got a better job, working in his family's Italian bakery.

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Posted by: chuckhoffmann ()
Date: October 16, 2018 02:24AM

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/20/2018 11:05PM by chuckhoffmann.

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Re: What Happened to Matt Defazio?
Posted by: Make huntt ()
Date: October 16, 2018 06:17AM

He was struck by a tractor trailer while walking across the beltway during rush hour traffic

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Re: What Happened to Matt Defazio?
Posted by: cabbagepatcho ()
Date: October 19, 2018 04:10PM

Thanks for the only actual helpful reply! That's interesting; I haven't been able to find any info on him elsewhere so I hope he survived that sunken ship.

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Re: What Happened to Matt Defazio?
Posted by: HFFLV ()
Date: October 24, 2018 11:44PM

chuckhoffmann Wrote:
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> From what I can tell, Matt DeFazio was not an
> employee of WMAL, but of their traffic service, US
> Traffic Network. (This is not unusual: most radio
> stations don't hire their own traffic reporters,
> they use outside services that provide them in
> exchange for running commercials during the
> traffic reports.)
>
> US Traffic Network has evidently been in a lot of
> trouble financially and has shut down their radio
> traffic operations.
>
> So, he either left for another gig or went down
> with the ship.
>
> See also
> https://radioink.com/2018/08/20/ustn-shutting-down
> -radio-operations/

see

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Re: What Happened to Matt Defazio?
Posted by: Answerer of OP questions ()
Date: October 25, 2018 12:27AM

He's now working as a doorman at the D.C. Eagle.

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Re: What Happened to Matt Defazio?
Posted by: R. Watts ()
Date: October 29, 2018 08:05PM

GP9UM
Lisa Baden in, Matt Defazio out.

Yeah, I think it's about traffic reporting
being part of a conglomerate that leases
itself to radio stations.

Lisa Baden was total WTOP until Cumulus
or something or other changed the contract
Either way, Matt D. is prob somewhere
else on a new contract.

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