Tami Heide, "The girl with two first names," is an American radio personality. Heide started out as a

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station WERS in

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in 1977. She later served as music director of

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station WMBR. Heide worked at WBCN in Boston from 1984 to 1991, when she segued to

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. In 2005, she moved to

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(Jack FM) in Los Angeles, where she was responsible for writing much of the dialogue for the on-air voice. She also hosted the on air daily “Jacktivities“. Heide left

in November 2016. In June 2017, she joined the Soul of Southern California, 94.7 the WAVE KTWV for weekends and fill-in-work.http://laradio.com June 15, 2017 She is also the host and executive producer of Open Line, the public affairs program that airs weekends on the 4 Audacy FM stations in SoCal. In August 2023, Heide began hosting KROQ Flashback Sunday. Heide’s mother was American

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author and social activist Wilma Scott Heide.

Radio affiliation

*1977–79: WERS *1979–84: WMBR *1984–91: WBCN *1991–2004:

*2005–16:

*2017-: KTWV

References

American radio DJs Radio personalities from Boston Radio personalities from Los Angeles Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{US-radio-bio-stub