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"The Nite Owl Show" with Mitch Moskal
can be heard LIVE from Holyoke, MA 
Thursday nights from 10:00pm - 12:00am EST
(9:00pm - 11:00pm CST)

Mitch Moskal’s love for music started at a very young age. His first experience with music came with playing his “Golden Records” on a child record player. He later graduated to his parent’s record player spinning the “Pop Hit” 78s of the day that his mother would buy. That in turn led to his collection of Rock & Roll 45s and LPs. Along the way came Soundtracks and Broadway Cast recordings, Easy Listening vocals and instrumental music, Classical compositions and some Jazz thrown in for good measure. Although he was born and raised in a Polish home, when he was younger Polka music was not on the top of his music list.

All that changed sometime in early 1988 when one Saturday morning while scanning up and down the FM radio dial he heard a type of music that he remembered hearing while growing up at home…Polka Music. This music had a much different sound when compared to the Polkas he remembered; it was more modern sounding and grabbed his attention immediately. After several weeks of talking with the DJ on the phone, he decided to ask if he could come to the station to “check it out”. That first visit led to many others, until he was asked to get his broadcast license so he could fill in for the two Polka DJs on WMUA-FM when they needed time off to play in their respective bands.

Now looking back, Mitch finds it hard to believe that this musical journey started over 17 years ago, and that it now brings him to the Internet audience on The Jammer Network. Many of you might know him as the host of the Early Bird Polka Show from 6:00am to 8:30am EST every Saturday on WMUA along with his daughter: Jennifer (Jen) Moskal,  where they broadcast out of the basement of the Campus Center at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Now he’ll also be broadcasting the Night Owl Show on The Jammer from another basement, in his home in Holyoke, Massachusetts. So listen in for a dynamic two hours of Polka music, Thursday nights exclusively on the Jammer.