Pete Tauriello

Pete Tauriello is a veteran traffic anchor on 1010 WINS, WKXW and WJRZ-FM and several other radio stations in the New York area including a few years on the Z-100 "Morning Zoo." He has also served as a traffic reporter on WWOR-TV and more recently on WNBC-TV's "Today In New York."

Tauriello graduated from Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey where he was active in the college's radio station, WSOU-FM.

Prior to joining Shadow Traffic in 1982, he served as the morning host on WADB in Point Pleasant, New Jersey (1976-78). Later he went on to program WBRW in Somerville, New Jersey and WERA in Plainfield, New Jersey (as Peter Jaye) with announcer stints at beautiful music WPAT-FM, WNSR New York and WFAS AM/FM White Plains.

Pete spent 12 years at WEVD New York as a pop standards DJ on the "Saturday Morning 1050 Club" and later became "The Pragmatic Talk Host" when the station dropped standards for talk. His position was that he refused be identified as being liberal, conservative or anything else. "I'm a pragmatist!", he would say, "What works...works. Why must any good thought or work come from one party or the other..one ideology or the other?"

During his 27 years at the Shadow Traffic Network New York, Tauriello served as both an assistant program director and program director having hired and/or trained some of market one's most well-known traffic reporters including Debbie Mazella, Tom Note and many others. His expertise is in talent development and radio programming for talk/AC hybrids.

Pete was a weekend disc jockey on oldies formatted WMTR in Morristown for three and a half years until the station dismissed it jocks in favor of a satellite delivered format. For 25 years he has been the morning traffic anchor on 1010 WINS Radio in New York.

Pete's voice can be heard in the motion picture "No Reservations" and in numerous documentaries about the September 11th attack on the World Trade center.

When not reporting traffic he can also be found behind the microphone singing, along with his wife of 33 years,Maureen Conroy Tauriello, at St. Joseph's Church in Maplewood, New Jersey in two of the church's music ministries..a praise band called "Trinity" and a more traditional choir. He also cantors at St. Benedict's Church in Newark, N.J. under the direction of well known pianist Philip Mealy.

A born radio enthusiast, he is also an amateur radio operator and serves as a vice president of the Tri County Radio Association of Union and a member of the Electronic Technology Society of New Jersey of Greenbrook. He also serves as an advisor to the Drew University radio station, WMNJ Madison, New Jersey. His younger son, Mark, had been the station's General Manager for 3 years and is credited with bringing the small station back from sporadic operation to full time operation with automation and live student programming. The younger Tauriello also envisioned and led the station's move into Internet broadcasting.