Devon O'Day

Devon O’Day has been in radio since 1976 when she started on air at KRRV-FM in Alexandria, LA as a country music jock, then KPAL in Pineville where she did news and sports, then KNOE in Monroe as a rock jock while attending University of Louisiana Monroe.

After graduation she moved to New York, where she studied Voice-Acting at the Wiest-Barron Studio before moving to Nashville in 1986 where she began working middays at WSIX. After a year, and a huge campaign with the listening audience Gerry House was brought back to mornings in a huge press push and Devon was offered the job as Gerry House’s producer.

Eighteen years as producer, on-air chuck with the House Foundation, and a daily entertainment segment on America’s most popular and first nationally syndicated country morning show. That connection led to Devon’s work with Premiere Radio as country music interviewer providing material for all their country music shows. Then a role with Gerry on America’s Number Ones and Saturday Night House Party (America’s first live Saturday Night syndicated show in the country format). While with premiere she created a comedy country news service called Music Rhoda. Then she joined Huntsman Entertainment as host of nationally syndicated Country Hitmakers and voiced specials for Garth, Dixie Chicks, Kenny Chesney, Trace Adkins, Bill Gaither and many more.

Leaving the House Foundation, she created Country Spirit, a Sunday morning show at WSIX and a talk show on WLAC called Plain Jane Wisdom. She left WSIX and WLAC (both in the Capstar/iHeart family) to work at Mix929 as a utility player filling in on mornings, evenings, news, production, and wherever needed. Devon also took a job with the Spirit Channel at the launch of SIRIUS Satellite radio when they opened Nashville offices in 2003. Her last full-time radio gig was WSM where she held down afternoon drive, first with Nan Kelly then moving into the solo host position for the remaining 4 years interviewing over two hundred artists and guests and creating podcasts of the interviews.

She currently works with Main Street Media as Creator of New Media where she has launched a podcast network or radio on demand, a streaming show called Main Street Today, and is working on several new media platforms to create broadcast content in the digital and device driven world.

Devon O’Day has been in front of a microphone since 1976 and continues to create broadcast content for use at radio stations around the country and online, most recently The Lee Greenwood All-Star Salute which will air in 2022. Her voice is heard on over 100 audio book narrations and she has written 7 books for Thomas Nelson/Harper Collins and United Methodist Publishing.

Devon O’Day has hosted or participated in some 30 to 50 charity events a year since moving to Nashville. Organizing the Gerry House Celebrity Golf Tournament, it was the top grossing golf event of the year and benefited Saddle Up. For almost thirty years Devon has hosted Chukkers for Charity at Orrin Ingram’s farm for Saddle Up and Rochelle Center. As the national voice of Fellowship of Christians and Jews, her voice is still heard on global television asking for help to feed and house people in need. She and Hoss Burns were team players for St. Jude Children’s research hospital, even cooking gumbo for people who gave big donations. She created a St. Jude Trail Ride and auction which was the top fund-raising equine event in the country for St. Jude. From The Heart Association gala, Juvenile Diabetes Events, riding in charity rodeos, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, helping as a member of the Animal Task Force who got a new humane Metro Animal Control in Nashville, Cottage Cove After School Children’s Care, and volunteering countless hours in animal rescue which have culminated in her own Angel Horse Farm which houses senior equine, kill pen horses, and special needs livestock like a blind steer and an anti-social pig…her broadcast career has been the microphone for her life of fund-raising and awareness of important causes.