ADAM DEMBECK

Producer, Comcast Morning Show with Drew Forrester

In the fall of 2005, Adam was driving down York Rd., in Towson, listening to The Bob Haynie Show, when he decided he was going to pursue an internship at 1570 WNST.  After a few emails, a couple phone calls, and a quick interview, Ray Bachman gave the guy a chance.  Adam interned 3 days a week while finishing up his undergrad at Towson University, and he never looked back from there.  From taking out the trash to running the production board, if you asked Adam to do it, it was done.

The staff at WNST taught Adam every tiny aspect of the radio business, and soon he was a frequent fill-in producer for the Bob Haynie Show and the Rob Long Show.  Adam also produced the Sunday Morning Show with Ray and Casey and continued to soak in all that he could.  After realizing WNST couldn’t get rid of Adam, they decided to take a chance and give him his first big opportunity.  Now, Adam gets his butt out of bed at 4:30 every morning to produce the Morning Show with Drew Forrester and Casey Willett, which can be heard Monday through Friday from 6 – 10 am. 

Adam grew up in Linthicum and later moved to Laurel.  He is a graduate of Mount Saint Joseph High School and Towson University.  He grew up idolizing Major Leaguers and at a young age really only cared about one thing, Baltimore Orioles baseball.  “The images of Rick Sutcliffe throwing out the first pitch in the history of Oriole Park at Camden Yards in 1992, the All-Star Game in 1993, and Cal’s 2131 game will forever be engraved in my memory,” Adam said.  He loved the Orioles, but for some reason loved the Big Hurt, Frank Thomas, as a kid.  In addition to Thomas, Adam loved Ken Griffey Jr., Brady Anderson, and of course the Iron Man, Cal Ripken Jr.  As Adam grew up he began to realize there were other sports out there other than Major League Baseball; he then became a monster Maryland Basketball fan, “After watching Joe Smith play in a Terrapin Jersey at Cole Field House, I was, to say the least, hooked.” 

Growing up, Adam had no real knowledge of what it meant to be a true NFL fan, considering there wasn’t a team in Baltimore for most of his childhood.  “I’d watch football on Sundays, but never really got into it, because I never really cared who won.  The Colts left the year I was born, so I had no idea what it was like to have a hometown NFL team,” Adam explained, “the only thing I knew was that I hated the Indianapolis Colts and the Washington Redskins, and that’s because my Dad told me I hated them.”  Then, in 1996 Adam went to his first “real” football game at Memorial Stadium, and the feeling he got the second he saw a Baltimore team on an NFL field can only be described by the cliché, “it was love at first sight.”  Now, football and the Ravens are in the driver’s seat in his mind when it comes to sports, and he says, “There is absolutely nothing like football Sundays in Baltimore.”

Now, Adam lives in Federal Hill and has become quite fond of urban living.  When he wants to get away from the world of sports for a bit, you can probably find him riding his bike through the trails of Patapsco Park or on the ski slopes.  He enjoys getting outside and staying as active as he can. 

Adam can not express how excited he is to be given the opportunity to produce a show that he feels people will really enjoy. He also feels he would never have worked as hard as he did to climb the ladder at WNST if it wasn’t for the support that he received from his loving parents, his close friends, and the staff at WNST.