Christie Banks: Gone To The Dogs
• After an amazing 42-year run as on-air talent and program director, Christie Banks is officially retiring from radio.
Banks’ stellar broadcasting career started at her Dad’s radio station, WQTW/Latrobe, PA in 1976 and has subsequently transported her all over America, with stops at many legendary stations, like WTMA/Charleston SC, WBZZ/Pittsburgh, WSHE/Miami, WHTQ/Orlando, WMGK/Philadelphia, WARW/Washington, DC, KZPS/Dallas, KPLN/San Diego, WZZR/West Palm Beach, and most recently, an eight-year run at WEAT/West Palm. In 2016 Christie was inducted into Slippery Rock University’s Radio Hall of Fame as a member of its inaugural class.
Given her well-known love of animals, Christie (pictured here with her pals Winnie and Diamond) started the “Christie’s Critters Foundation” in 2013 to help raise funds and awareness for animal rescue, and this week, Christie and her husband Curt Coulter begin their next adventure — celebrating the grand opening of their own “Woof Gang Bakery & Grooming” shop in North Palm Beach, FL.
As she looks back on her four-decade radio career, Banks remarked, “If I helped just one woman make significant inroads in her radio career as an on air talent or programmer, then my radio career is complete!” Looking ahead, Christie’s many radio friends can stay in contact with her at Christie@ChristiesCritters.org.
