After graduating in May of 1990, he attended Freed-Hardeman University. There he discovered Radio. “I signed up for this class where one of the requirements was to pull a 3 or 4 hour shift at 91.5-WFHC. I had already done print and still had my press pass so I said what the heck. So I dropped the camera for a microphone. The rest is history.” 

Greg’s first paying radio gig was at WXOQ in Selmer—a primordial soup of great radio talent in West Tennessee. “First I was hired part time, kind of a ‘we’ll call you when we need you’ thing.  A week later I was the nighttime jock, 6 till midnight.” 

In the fall of 1992 Greg packed it up and moved to Murfreesboro to finish school at Middle Tennessee State University. He immediately hit the airwaves at WMOT, a 50,000 watt non-commercial station on campus. He was there for two years. “I learned so much at WMOT.”  Greg picked up his news techniques there and learned to smooth his delivery from the commercial music banter. In the meantime he developed an ear for the blues. “The format was news and then we’d go jazz and blues at night.” Greg was the first person in school history to receive the WMOT Scholarship in Mass Communications.

After graduating in 1994, Greg returned to west Tennessee and tried to stay  focused on radio working at “one of the big country stations.” Almost a year later, after a stint in Nashville, News/Talk 101.5 came calling. “I had been married a week when I signed on at News/Talk. We had to delay our honeymoon so we could pack!” 

And there you have it. Greg is Co-Host of “Daybreak,” heard Monday-Friday  beginning at 6AM and is also Operations Manager. “I’m still lugging equipment.” He’s been called a “morning lemon” for his dry humor and quick retorts. “I’ve been called worse too,” he says. Greg and his wife Marsha—who by the way was one of the cheerleaders he used to sneak pictures of— now live in Jackson with their Basset Hound, Hobbes.

Greg Wood serves as Grand Marshall of the annual Beech Bluff Parade.