Jeff Spurgeon
(Photo: Joe Sinnott)
While still a teenager in his western Nebraska hometown Jeff Spurgeon’s radio career had what might be called a providential beginning: He was giving announcements in church, and one congregant – who owned a local radio station – heard him and offered an audition. Since then, Jeff has worked on the radio as an announcer, a news reporter, a newscaster, an interviewer, and a producer. He came to New York in 1986, joining WQXR in 1997 as a newscaster. He was a music host for the last decade of WQXR's ownership by The New York Times.
One of Jeff’s proudest accomplishments has been his work as a schoolteacher. He worked, though only briefly, at one of the city's finest public schools, Townsend Harris High, where he developed and taught a broadcast journalism course. Jeff is an amateur singer, and has performed with several New York City – based choruses and church choirs, and spent several years in an a cappella quartet, singing everything from Renaissance masterworks to original arrangements in modern styles. Jeff and his wife Judy, a high school English teacher, live in Brooklyn.
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