Julianne Welby

WFUV's former morning co-host and News & Public Affairs Director is also as big a music fan as you'll find anywhere.

News sense plus musical passion

Julianne and friends

Julianne Welby spent 8 years overseeing a busy, "unconventional" newsroom populated by Fordham University students, many of whom went directly on to careers in the competitive New York City radio market, while juggling the co-hosting slot on the 6-10am morning show with Claudia Marshall. Now she pops up as a guest host in various places on our weekday and weekend schedule.

Welby herself began her broadcast career as a Fordham student at WFUV in the early 1990s, first recording satellite-delivered programs such as World Café and Mountain Stage, then later as public affairs manager. "It was the first time that I saw radio as an art form," she recalls of her early days at WFUV. "It also taught me that it's more about presenting voices and ideas than about being a voice and being an idea."

Infused with a newfound passion for public radio, after graduating from Fordham in 1993 Welby went on to a position as local host of Morning Edition at WSCL-FM in Salisbury, MD. Yet it was her first "dream job" at Washington D.C.'s public radio station WAMU that really honed her skills as a broadcaster. There Welby earned a number of professional awards for her coverage of local issues ranging from politics to economics to sports.

"The seeds were planted at WFUV and grew at WAMU," Welby says of her blossoming career. In the fall of 2000, Welby returned to WFUV to co-host the station's new morning show with veteran broadcaster Claudia Marshall. The morning duo became the only all-female morning drive team in the New York City market.

We miss her full-time energy at FUV, but we know where to find her - at all the live shows she can squeeze into her busy life.

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