![]() “When I went to the station to pick it up, I thought, ‘’Oh my gosh, this is a magical place! Maybe I want to do this!’” “I won some trivia contest on a radio station in DeKalb and won an album,” Wood said. Then it was on to Northern Illinois University, where he anticipated becoming a sportswriter before fate intervened. and living on the island in Puget Sound was fantastic.”Īfter his father retired from the Navy, the family returned to Illinois and Wood attended junior high and high school in the Chicago suburb of Addison. “We lived in Hawaii even before it was a state. “We really had two very exotic places to live,” he said. ![]() The family moved several times, as Richard Wood was stationed in California, Kansas, Hawaii, and on Whidbey Island in Washington state. Tom Wood also has a younger sister, Kathy. Navy and American Airlines and lives in Sherwood. Thomas Duane Wood was born at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Great Lakes, Ill., on Jan. If you grew up within broadcasting distance of Little Rock from 1980 onward, you probably know Tom Wood by voice.įrom the founding of album-rock station Magic 105 through being the name and voice behind today’s 94.9 Tom-FM, Wood has been a fixture in the Little Rock radio market for more than 30 years. ![]() LITTLE ROCK - Some people you know by name. ![]()
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