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Rock Party Radio is a strong playlist, which features songs from the 1960s through the present. “The whole thing is a mix of everything. All good songs that people can listen to. And it varies from song to song.”

Al Cocchi studied radio at Seton Hall University, starting out in the mid-1970s with WSOU radio, the on-campus radio station. “The highest power radio station in college radio – 2000 watts! I said, ‘Okay, this is for me,’ and I introduced myself to people, got involved and helped out wherever I could, and got really interested in radio.” Upon graduation, he started at WAVP Cableradio in Bloomfield and also ran his own record shop in that same town for a few years while Video Spotlight, a cable television show which lasted 14 years and featured the best in music, especially heavy metal performers. “People want me to bring that back,” he says regarding Video Spotlight, “because I met Madonna, Paul McCartney, and other stars. It was fabulous. One week we actually did a broadcast live from the Meadowlands parking lot here in New Jersey, and then the Scorpions, the Heavy Metal rock band, they loved us. Anytime they were doing a new album or video, they said, ‘Let’s get on Video Spotlight to promote it. Those guys are awesome!’”

Cocchi also worked for Cousin Brucie’s WRAN radio station in Dover (“That was a blast,” he says), followed by Clear Channel Radio (which became iHeart Media) in 2004, but prior to that he created his first radio station. “My first station that I created was CyberStorm radio back in 2002, and it’s still running, and I just started this new radio station now. So, I’ve got two radio stations, and I’m also on about 10 other radio stations across the country with what we call these days, voice tracking.”

Syndicated Show Hosts

Pariah Burke grew up banging his impressive head of hair to 80s and 90s hard rock, heavy metal, and hair band albums he played all the way through while wondering why even the coolest FM stations only ever played the singles. Living and playing in bands in Daytona Beach back when Bike Week was still awesome, Pariah developed a taste for Harleys and whiskey, and began DJing Bike Week events and mud wrestling. Later, somehow still in possession of his full hearing, Pariah embraced the ability of Internet radio to reach hard rock, heavy metal, and hair band fans all over the world. He started the Hard, Heavy & Hair with Pariah Burke syndicated radio show to bring to all those fans the biggest hits but even more so the non-single album tracks, the “deep cuts,” that make albums great but never get air play during regular radio rotation.

Rev. Dr. Michael Zeigler began serving with LHM as Speaker of The Lutheran Hour in October 2018. Prior to that, he served as pastor of Epiphany Lutheran Church (2014-2018) and assistant pastor at Timothy Lutheran Church (2012-2014), both in St. Louis. Before becoming a pastor, he served as an aircraft maintenance officer in the Air Force.

Michael grew up in a military family, living throughout the U.S., from North Dakota to Alabama, Virginia to Colorado. His family moved eleven times before he finished high school in Springfield, Missouri. He graduated from the U. S. Air Force Academy in 2001 with a general engineering degree and served 5 years in the Air Force. He left active duty in 2006 to prepare to be a pastor at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, completing a Master of Divinity in 2010 and a Ph.D. in 2014.

He continues to serve part-time as an Air Force Reserve officer at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, and as a guest instructor at Concordia Seminary.

Michael and his wife, Amy, have four children. Amy enjoys being a home-school and Sunday school teacher, cooking, crafting, and being a catalyst for events aimed at strengthening bonds between family and friends.