A Few Minutes With...Mark Drelich
NOW! Radio host Mark D talks about his life in radio and how he almost ended up as a Rabbi? BY EMIL TIEDEMANN " I WASN'T allowed to listen to the radio growing up," admitted NOW! Radio host Mark Drelich , who moved to Edmonton from hometown Brooklyn when he was about two years old. "When I was younger I would put one Walkman headphone in my ear for the 630 CHED Oilers broadcast, and the other I would keep out to hear if my mom was coming down the hallway." Mark D in training at Toronto's Humber College That's quite a progression from then and now - no pun intended - given Mark's current position at perhaps the most engaging FM station in the city. Clearly, being in radio was never on his radar, let alone something Mark ever imagined for his future. Especially coming from a "very religious household" that had assumed he would take a more divine route, like his siblings. He travelled to Toronto and Baltimore to gain a ...