{"id":285,"date":"2025-09-19T11:12:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/?page_id=285"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:17:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T20:17:37","slug":"gary-freeman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/index.php\/about\/our-all-star-staff\/gary-freeman\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Freeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-57728\" class=\"post-57728 page type-page status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-180 alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GaryFreeman-140x200-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"200\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 140px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 140\/200;\" \/>Gary is a native of Southern California, who has escaped and his now hiding in Maine! (Shhh, don\u2019t tell anyone)!<\/p>\n<p>Gary wanted to be in broadcasting since he was about 8 years old and was influenced by Casey Kasem\u2019s\u00a0<i>American Top 40<\/i>\u00a0on Sundays in the 70\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>After graduating from Cerritos High School, Gary joined the U.S. Army as an infantryman, and was a presence in Germany during the Cold War and when the Berlin Wall fell.<\/p>\n<p>After attending a private college in Graham, Washington, Gary had an opportunity to first hit the airwaves as a guest host on a St. Louis radio station, shortly after 911.<\/p>\n<p>While living in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Gary was able to get his own radio gig on AM 650 KGAB, where he hosted \u201c<i>Across America with Gary Freeman<\/i>\u201d, which was influenced by\u00a0<i>Charles Kuralt\u2019s America<\/i>\u00a0television show.<\/p>\n<p>Gary went fulltime on Cheyenne\u2019s #1 News\/Talk Radio Station, when hosting \u2018<i>KGAB Mornings with Gary Freeman\u2019<\/i>, where he interviewed people in the Wyoming State Legislature, local charities, and community influencers, and called play-by-play rodeo events when announcing \u201c<i>Rodeo on the Radio<\/i>\u201d during Cheyenne Frontier Days during the last full week in July.<\/p>\n<p>From there, Gary worked in the Presque Isle market as the production manager for 3 local radio stations, hosted \u2018<i>Live on Location<\/i>\u201d events, and covered news and weather as well.<\/p>\n<p>Gary is very excited to be a part of Star 97.7\u2019s weekend line-up and All-Star Team, where he talks cool facts about the artists and songs, the best of Maine, weird news, his Top 5 of \u2018anything\u2019, and so much more.<\/p>\n<p>Gary said, \u201c<i>I\u2019m a huge fan of Star 97.7, not only for their great community engagement and promotion of local businesses, but I also think it has the best song format to showcase the memories of our lives and to help us relive those thrilling days of yesteryear<\/i>!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Gary is not on the radio, he enjoys volunteering for American Legion causes, dancing, and spending time with his daughter Julia and his two dogs, Jack, and Emma.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary is a native of Southern California, who has escaped and his now hiding in Maine! (Shhh, don\u2019t tell anyone)! Gary wanted to be in broadcasting since he was about 8 years old and was influenced by Casey Kasem\u2019s\u00a0American Top 40\u00a0on Sundays in the 70\u2019s. After graduating from Cerritos High School, Gary joined the U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":233,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-285","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/star977fm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}