14 Facts About TJ Lubinsky

Terry James Lubinsky is an American television, radio and digital media host known for his association with oldies and Motown music.

TJ Lubinsky is creator, executive producer and director of Public Broadcasting Service pledge-drive programs.

TJ Lubinsky was born in Bradley Beach, New Jersey and grew up in nearby Ocean Grove.

TJ Lubinsky's uncle, "Buzzy", was a well-known club disc jockey in New Jersey.

At 16, TJ Lubinsky obtained his General Equivalency Diploma and accepted his first television job at Monmouth Cable TV-34 in New Jersey, where he learned television production.

TJ Lubinsky worked on different news, studio, and sport remotes that served 31 towns, boroughs and municipalities along the Jersey Shore.

When he turned 22, TJ Lubinsky was offered a job to work for PBS in South Florida.

In 1999, TJ Lubinsky blended his passion for Doo-Wop, Motown, classic Philly Soul, and '60s Rock and Roll oldies into one of PBS's most successful fundraisers, "Doo-Wop '50".

TJ Lubinsky would go on to produce over 75 national television specials from PBS which archive America's soundtrack from the '50s, '60s and '70s through his "My Music" series.

TJ Lubinsky helped bring several episodes of Doctor Who to the United States which had not been shown in the country before.

TJ Lubinsky spent four years as host and DJ on the WJRZ-FM Sunday Night Request Show, where he hosted five live hours by request through 2009, when the station flipped formats to Adult Contemporary.

In July 2013, TJ Lubinsky returned to a weekly Sunday night program on WJRZ.

TJ Lubinsky ended his WJRZ radio program in 2014 to help care for his father, Herman TJ Lubinsky, Jr.

In 2015, TJ Lubinsky produced a rerelease of Motown 25, a 1983 program for public television.