Meet The Reporters

Meet The Reporters!

Ken Zurski

"I can't believe it's been over six years since the start of Traffic One in Peoria. For me, it all started 20 years ago when the all-news radio station in Chicago, 670 WMAQ, starting doing something new at the time; round-the-clock traffic reports every 10 minutes. Suddenly there was a demand for traffic reporters. I was in college at the time and working at the school's radio station (playing high energy dance records) when the opportunity came up. I started doing mobile traffic reports 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. I left traffic briefly to do morning news at a music station in the northwest suburbs. In the mid 90's, I became the drive-time airborne traffic 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 in the western suburbs. 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."

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

Mike Sabol

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.