Meet The Reporters!

Ken Zurski 

Operations Manager and Principal Anchor 

CEFCU Traffic One

email: kenzurski@jmpradio.com.

Ken Zurski is a radio veteran with 15-plus years of traffic reporting experience in Chicago

"I began reporting traffic nearly 20 years ago when the all-news radio station in Chicago at the time, 670 WMAQ, starting doing something new; round-the-clock traffic reports every 10 minutes. I was in college at the time and working at the school's radio station when the opportunity came up. I did traffic spotter reports from the road before being called up to the Shadow Traffic Network studios on the 94th floor of the John Hancock Building. I began anchoring traffic reports in the late 80's. In the mid 90's, I became the drive-time airborne reporter for WBBM NewsRadio 780. My airborne career nearly came to an abrupt halt in July of  1999 when the traffic plane I was in lost power and went down in a muddy construction site. Luckily, no one was seriously hurt and the next day I was back on the job (only in a different plane). Before leaving Chicago to start up Traffic One in Peoria, I was  doing news, traffic and weather on WLS 890 TalkRadio as "Grant Parke."  

Traffic One went on the air in August of 2003. 

"My wife grew up in the Peoria area and this is where we wanted to raise a family. When the Traffic One  job came up, I thought, what a perfect fit."

Ken and his wife Connie live in Morton with their two children, Sam and Nora

Mike Sabol

Mobile Reporter and Fill-In Anchor

Mike Sabol's traffic reporting experience started on a cold morning in February 1988, better known then as WMBD Traffic-Scan. In 1989, Mike spent an afternoon behind the scenes at Chicago's Shadow Traffic in the Hancock Center. During the 4^th of July celebrations in 1998 & 99, Mike flew over Peoria in a Cessna 172 - providing traffic reports for SkyConcert.  2005 brought in Upgrade-74 and the closure of the Murray-Baker bridge, Mike provided mobile traffic reports from work zones, traffic snarls and lane closing accidents. Currently, Mike provides fill-in studio reports for Ken Zurski and mobile traffic reports when traffic situations warrant.