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Pete Fornatale ------------------------------------------------------------- Pete Fornatale was one of the architects of Progressive Rock FM in the '60s. He has been a fixture on New York radio for four decades, starting his career at WFUV in Nov. '63 at WFUV as a Fordham undergraduate hosting "Campus Caravan," then moving on to WNEW-FM (in '69) and K-Rock (in '89). Pete hosts "Mixed Bag" on Saturdays from 5-8pm on WFUV, which started as a Sunday morning program in late Dec. '82 on WNEW (and which got a fan letter the next week from a then unknown singer-songwriter named Suzanne Vega). He is the author of several books about media, pop culture and music, including "The Rock Music Source Book," "Radio in the Television Age," The Story of Rock 'n' Roll" and "All You Need Is Love." He was also the primary writer of "The Elvis Collection," a 600 trading card series on the life of Elvis Presley. Pete conceived, wrote and narrated the nationally syndicated radio feature "Rock Calendar." He also wrote seven episodes of the MTV series "Rock Influences," and served as consultant, writer and voice-over announcer for "Deja View," a series of specials distributed internationally by All-American Television in 1984-1985. Pete co-hosted the 1991 HBO telecast of "Paul Simon Live in Central Park," and has regularly served as expert guest commentator on PBS specials featuring The Bee Gees, Bobby Darin, Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, The Mamas and The Papas, The Moody Blues, Roy Orbison, Peter, Paul and Mary, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor and The Weavers. Pete has won The New York Council of Churches Award for Broadcast Excellence in 1976, the coveted Armstrong Award for Excellence in Musical Programming in 1983, The New York Folk Festival Special Folks Award in 1984, The World Folk Music Association Award for Making a Difference in Broadcasting in 1992 and The New York AIR Award for Achievement in Radio in 1998. He is a Board member of World Hunger Year, the organization co-founded by Harry Chapin, and has served as co-anchor of annual Hungerthon broadcasts for many years.
