Ryan O’Connor has been with WINY since 2003 where he started off as a news stringer covering meetings and the periodic breaking news story; as well as a vacation-relief board operator.
In addition to working at Northeastern Connecticut’s number one choice for news and sports, Ryan goes to school full time at the University of Connecticut where he is majoring in journalism. It is at UConn where you can read some of his work as a correspondent for The Daily Campus, the oldest campus newspaper serving since 1896; and anchors and reports UConn news on the in-house television station: UCTV Channel 14.
Ryan feels community involvement is important to keeping the “family feel” in Northeastern Connecticut, and that is why you can find him staying very active in the local community. It is because of this mind set that you may see Ryan assisting with many shows at the local theater; help out with the Relay for Life as the entertainment chair; and helped out with the Deary Memorial Road Race in 2006. Ryan also works a second job part time at a local bank.
Ryan may not have a regular On-Air shift here at WINY, but you can see him working weekday nights for the News Department, reporting on meetings and anything “that’s fit to print” as coined by the New York Times. Ryan has also worked up the ranks where he is now the senior board operator. Some of the jobs related to this position include monitoring all of the local live broadcasts and local sports games as well as both Red Sox baseball and Patriots football. Ryan is also in the hot seat every Sunday morning where he runs the controls for Don Kennedy’s “Big Band Jump” and reproduces the classical radio shows for Mervin Whipple’s Golden Greats of Radio program that airs every Sunday from 11:00 – 11:30a.m. Much like other weekend personalities, Ryan is also the vacation relief for the weekday afternoon show and for Sunday Morning Swing when the regular jocks are unable to be in the office.
Ryan is a graduate from Woodstock Academy where he and his twin brother, Bradley, created and ran the Academy’s radio and television stations, which he also had two news broadcasts that ran multiple times nightly on Woodstock Academy Educational Access Television.
