Matt Knight

I never know where to start when the people that run this website tell us to “write about ourselves”, but I’m going to do my best while trying not to bore you with mundane nonsense. Ok, here we go:

THE EARLY YEARS: Born & raised in Brooklyn, New York. Moved to New Jersey in 2000 for my first on-air job and “Kid Knight” was introduced to radio speakers all over the Jersey Shore where I spent 5 years playing ALLLL the boy bands and pretended to be in one by bleaching the tips of the hair I once had blonde. (It was 2000 – go look at the Billboard charts for those few years.)
THE MIDDLE YEARS: In 2005, the boy band phase was over for me as my hair went back to its natural color and I moved to one of the most legendary alternative rock stations ever to exist in this state (and in the country if you ask me), G-Rock Radio. I’d spend another 5 years there and I was really living the dream because alternative music from the 1980’s through 2010 is my absolute favorite era. Thennnnnn….
THE CURRENT YEARS: That fantastic radio station went away…and so did I as I was off the air for a couple of years, pursuing a career as an EMT. While it was cool to work in an ambulance, it wasn’t my passion. So back on the air, I went to our sister station 95.9 The Rat. In 2013, I got a call that 100.1 WJRZ was returning to a format I was very familiar with, and “Matt Knight in the Morning” was there to launch it. Waking up at 5 am sucked, so when I had the opportunity to move to afternoons I jumped at it. For the last decade-plus, I hope I’ve been entertaining you by playing “Jersey’s Greatest Hits” every afternoon since then.
SPORTS TEAMS: New York Giants, New York Rangers, New York Mets, New York Knicks.
FAVORITE WJRZ ARTISTS: Phil Collins/Genesis, Billy Joel, Prince, Michael Jackson.
FAVORITE NON-WJRZ ARTISTS: Stone Temple Pilots, Coldplay, Nirvana, Oasis.