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A

aron Seller learned early on
what it takes to get ahead
in radio, and his efforts
paid off. Today he is a top-
40 DJ at WKPK-106.7-FM in
Gaylord, Mich.
"I work 7 p.m. to midnight, taking
requests all night long and talking
between every other song," he
explains. "I do a lot prank phone calls,
too. For Thanksgiving I called the
Butterball hotline and
told them my turkey was
moving. I try and make it
amusing."
Although Seller loves
his job, the Jewish popu-
lation in Gaylord is very
small, especially during
fall, winter and spring.
"Gaylord is about one
hour east of Traverse City
and I wouldn't be sur-
prised if I were the only
Jew," says Seller, who was
raised Reform and attend-
ed Temple Israel.
"But it will change in
the summer [when] the
population of the area
around Traverse City goes
from about 32,000 to
some 150,000. Luckily I work with a
great bunch of people and my Judaism
has never been a problem."
The 25-year-old, son of Mark and
Caroline Seller of West Bloomfield,
has been working in radio since llth
grade at Walled Lake Western High
School, where he and a friend used the
school's equipment and the city's cable
station to broadcast for about two
hours every day after school.
At age 17, Seller became a DJ at var-
ious clubs around the Motor City and
did a few b'nai mitzvah. After attend-
ing Hillel Day School for a few years
before transferring to Oak Park
schools and finally Walled Lake
Western, he enrolled at Northwestern
Michigan College in Traverse City.
"But I left college and moved back
to Detroit to DJ for Music Box

Mobile Disc Jockey Co., where I
worked at weddings and clubs," he
says.
Seeking formal training, Seller
enrolled at the Specs Howard School
of Broadcasting in Southfield. During
the summer of 2000, he worked at
96.3-FM in Detroit as a promotions
assistant, and then landed an intern-
ship at 95.5-FM in Oak Park, "on the
air with the night-time guy doing
funny stunts," he says. "That was my
first on-air experience at a regular
radio station."

Aaron Seller:
The number
of Jewish
listeners "in
the Gaylord
area will
increase in
the summer
[when] the
population
of the area
around
Traverse City
goes from
about 32,000
to some
150,000."

Following graduation from broad-
casting school in August 2001, Seller
began applying for radio jobs all over
the country. Within six weeks he got a
call. from WKPK and packed his bags
for Gaylord.
An interest in the entertainment
world seems to run in Seller's family.
His brother, Jeffrey Seller, who lives in
New York, is producer of the
Broadway hit Rent, and later this fall
will bring Puccini's La Boheme to the
Broadway stage.
"Jeffrey and I are very close," Aaron
Seller says. "In fact, I proposed to my
finance Michelle on the Rent stage in
New York after a performance."
Seller hopes that one day he can join
his brother in Manhattan. "New York
is the No. 1 market and I would love
to wind up there," he says. [11

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