Pete Tauriello

Who is Pete Tauriello?

Pete Tauriello is a veteran traffic anchor on 1010 WINS, WKXW and several other radio stations in the New York City area including a few years on the Z-100 "Morning Zoo." He has also served as a traffic reporter on WWOR-TV and more recently on WNBC-TV's "Today In New York."

Tauriello graduated from Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, where he was active in the college's radio station, WSOU-FM. He holds a B.A. in Communication Arts.

Prior to joining Shadow Traffic in 1982, he served as the morning host on WADB in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. Later he went on to program WBRW in Somerville, New Jersey, and WERA in Plainfield, New Jersey with announcer stints at beautiful music WPAT-FM, WNSR New York and WFAS AM/FM White Plains.

Pete spent 12 years at WEVD New York as a pop standards DJ on the "Saturday Morning 1050 Club" and later became "The Pragmatic Talk Host" when the station dropped standards for talk. His position was that he refused be identified as being liberal, conservative or anything else. "I'm a pragmatist!", he would say, "What works ... works. Why must any good thought or work come from one party or the other ... one ideology or the other?"