About Radio TakeOver
Chuck Fresh
Karen Wooden is the producer and host of Radio TakeOver, a show she created with a ’news magazine’ concept. Originally from the Windy City, Karen grew up in the Rocky Mountains, lived in the Golden State and the Lone Star State before coming to the Sunshine State.
Karen holds a degree in Criminal Justice and is continuing studies in that field. She also earned a Certificate in Early Childhood Education and was assistant director at an early learning center in California, which explains how she can deal so effectively with her co-host. Prior to moving to Florida, Karen was a freelance photojournalist with the Waco Tribune Herald and Waco Hometown News.
Karen has been a volunteer for the Boy Scouts of America at both the troop, pack and district levels as Public Relations Chair, and also volunteers at both of her son’s schools.
Karen Wooden
Co-host and executive producer Chuck Fresh was born and raised in Philadelphia. Fresh paid his way through Temple University working in corporate management while performing as a mobile, nightclub, and radio DJ in between classes.
Fresh is an internationally recognized voiceover talent - visit his website at www.chuckfresh.com to hear some of his voices. He also runs Brevard Marketing LLC and the Computer Care Clinic franchise, and produces several popular YouTube channels.
Chuck wrote the book How To Be A DJ and Make Some Noise serving the hospitality trade. Fresh also has written 11 books including two parenting books, one as a woman, the other as a man, under various very sneaky pseudonyms. He also contributed to the best selling book The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Parenting by Joshua Piven. Oh - and he's an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church, holding an honorary PhD. in religion. Best $99 he ever spent. Call him "Doctor Fresh."
Radio TakeOver, situated near sunny Cocoa Beach on Florida’s Space Coast, is a radio talk show created with a “news magazine” concept. Think Kathie Lee and Hoda, only a thousand times cooler. Radio TakeOver is known locally as a mid-work week coffee break! Share our take on the week’s top local and national headlines, celebrities, entertainment, humor, and interesting guests -- news you can use, and may not hear anywhere else. We have contests for our listeners, and there’s always a strange twist that’ll get people talking around the water cooler. Radio TakeOver promises we may change your world in one hour.
Radio TakeOver is live on the air every Wednesday from 1—2 pm. WMEL is a 50,000 Watt AM radio station known as the “Talk To Me Station,” obviously broadcasting a talk radio format. The station serves the Melbourne, Titusville, Cocoa, Cocoa Beach and Sebastian areas of Brevard County. WMEL has been a staple in Brevard County since 1986. WMEL is a big part of the sports community in central Florida. Currently, the station offers its listeners Sunday and Monday night NFL Football games with Westwood One, a full schedule of Orlando Magic and Tampa Bay Rays games, as well as the full NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule. Aside from sports, the station offers some of the best talk radio on the dial. The Doug Stephan, Herman Cain, Dave Ramsey and Laura Ingraham Shows can all be heard on WMEL. The station won the Hometown News best talk radio station in 2014.
WMEL estimates approximately 5,000 to 7,000 listeners tune in during daytime hours, with new listeners finding the station daily as a result of the station’s increased transmission power and the recent addition of three low-power FM simulcasts distributed throughout Brevard County. WMEL is part of the Melbourne-Titusville designated market area (DMA), ranked #104 of 272 DMAs nationwide with a rapidly growing population near 500,000 persons aged 12 and over. Melbourne’s DMA is larger than Huntsville, AL, Waco, TX, Savannah, GA, Green Bay, WI, and Reno, NV.
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WMEL’s largest competitor locally is the well-funded iHeart’s WMMB-AM, with a 4.4 AQH all-day share in the spring of 2016. RTO offers a much lighter alternative to Rush Limbaugh, completely capturing a less-angry and largely female audience.
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Radio TakeOver can be streamed live on WMEL’s website, enlarging our show’s reach to a global audience. Windows or Mac computers, iPhones, Android devices, and almost any tablets are all capable of playing the WMEL radio live simulcast. WMEL estimates several hundred additional listeners stream our show over the internet. Radio TakeOver’s producers have arranged to have each of our weekly broadcasts recorded and archived, then distributed to an ever-growing audience around the world on popular websites including iTunes, iHeartRadio, Spreaker, SoundCloud, and YouTube. Listeners can subscribe to our podcasts or streams and are notified whenever a new episode has been distributed.
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Radio TakeOver is growing its social media presence rapidly, adding scores of new followers to its Facebook page, Twitter account, Instagram page, and YouTube channel weekly. Followers are presented with news and updates from our shows, including several mentions of sponsors and upcoming guests along with their associated websites and contact information. Links to our streaming websites are also provided.
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Radio TakeOver is growing quickly in reputation and popularity, and is poised to become a daily broadcast offering national broadcast syndication to AM and FM stations across the United State during the second half of 2017.