Malcolm Alter

Malcolm, a native of Boston, was raised in Dorchester and Mattapan. He is a graduate of Boston English High School and Emerson College where he majored in Speech Education and minored in Broadcasting. His love of jazz is what attracted him to radio. His favorite disc jockeys were Norm Nathan, Jess Cain, and Bill Marlowe who had very high standards that he emulated. His hands on training came when he did an overnight jazz show on Emerson’s radio station WERS. When he finally was employed in radio, he discovered that there wasn’t much demand for jazz disc jockeys and found himself broadcasting news. After his first job, at Boston’s WRYT (now WROL) Malcolm spent several years as a newscaster in the Greater Boston area at WCCM in Lawrence, WJDA in Quincy, WESX in Salem, WDLW in Waltham, and WGTR in Natick. He then got a call from Metro Traffic Control in Boston to come to work as a traffic reporter. Having been a cab driver and dispatcher in Boston during his college years, he had a pretty good knowledge of the area and was right for the job. Malcolm spent 15 years with Metro flying in the helicopter broadcasting reports on WRKO, WBZ, WBOS, WMEX, WMJX, WROR, WZLX, and WBNW…. sort of an alphabet soup. After returning back to earth, Malcolm began his stint with WATD where he became fast friends with Cathy Dee, Rob Hakala, and Lisa Azizian. (He can also be heard on Bloomberg Radio, WBOQ, and WFNQ in Nashua, N.H.)

Malcolm also worked weekends at WLKW in Providence and was a feature reporter for Radio New England Magazine which went out to about 90 stations in New England.