Education
Tauriello graduated from Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, where he was active in the college"s radio station, WSOU-FM.
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 Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts. Prior to joining Shadow Traffic in 1982, he served as the morning host on WADB in Point Pleasant, New Jersey (1976-1978). Later he went on to program WBRW in Somerville, New Jersey, and WERA in Plainfield, New Jersey (as Peter Jaye) with announcer stints at beautiful music WPAT-FM, WNSR New York and WFAS Department of Administration and Management/FM White Plains.
Pete spent 12 years at WEVD New York as a popular 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?"
During his 31 years at the Shadow Traffic Network New York, Tauriello served as both an assistant program director and program director having hired and/or trained some of market one"s most well-known traffic reporters including Debbie Mazella, Tom Note and many others His expertise is in talent development and radio programming for talk/Air Corps hybrids.
Pete was a weekend disc jockey on oldies formatted WMTR in Morristown for three and a half years until the station dismissed most of its air personalities in favor of a satellite delivered format.
Foreign 29 years he has been the morning traffic anchor on 1010 World International News Service Radio in New New York Pete"s voice can be heard in the motion picture "Number Reservations" and in numerous documentaries about the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center as well as several radio commercials. He also is a professional cantor at Saint Benedict"s Church in Newark, New Jersey under the direction of well-known musician and choir director Philip Mealy.
A born radio enthusiast, he is also an amateur radio operator and is a former vice president of the Tri County Radio Association of Union.
He also serves as an adviser to the Drew University radio station, WMNJ Madison, New Jersey. The younger Tauriello also envisioned and led the station"s move into Internet broadcasting.