Education
He attended Onondaga Community College in Syracuse where he majored in radio and television
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Career
Dunes was raised in Westvale which is a suburb of Syracuse, New New York He began a singing career with his band Dunes & The Delegate-Tunes in 1976 while in high school. In 1981 Dunes began his radio career in Auburn, New York working part-time at WMBO. In 1982 he was hired full-time to do afternoon drive at WGVA in Geneva, New New York A year later he landed a job in the Syracuse market at WKFM doing evenings. Within six months he was hired full-time to do evenings at WNTQ and later became the music director and midday personality.
In 1991 after a long successful career at WNTQ Dunes left and took the midday / music director position at WSEN-FM in Syracuse, New New York In 2000 he was elevated to the morning drive slot at WSEN where he remains today and still performs with his current band Code Red along with Dunes & The Delegate-Tunes when they reunite to perform at a few major events and venues during the year.
Along with doing mornings on WSEN-FM he can also be heard weekday afternoons from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm on WSEN-Department of Administration and Management, Oldies 1050. Dunes has also done numerous interviews with many well known celebrities on his radio shows and has also made several television appearances on local television in Syracuse.
Dunes"s morning show,, airs from 5-10 Department of Administration and Management Eastern Time Monday - Friday on WSEN. The title "crew" features Dunes along with sports reporter Todd Emanuelli. News and weather is provided by Metro Networks, a subsidiary of Westwood One, and Dial Global"s Jimmy Carter (no relation to the former President of the same name) provides entertainment reports.
WSEN uses the Doctorate.O.T."s more than two dozen traffic camera"s as a source for traffic reporting.
