Daniel Karcher

Daniel Karcher (born 1964) is an NPR host and filmmaker, best known as host for WBGO (where he serves as the station's "full-time substitute host") and his efforts on production of The Blair Witch Project and Family Guy.

Karcher grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, where he graduated from Montclair High School as part of the class of 1983. After leaving his hometown and relocating to the Pattenburg section of Union Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Karcher created theAmphitheater.org, a web site for graduates of Montclair High School that has had thousands of hits daily from alumni located worldwide.[1]

His first broadcasting job was at Radio BHN in Birmingham, England, where he hosted a pre-formatted Top 40 show called "American Heart Beat". After stints at WRTI in Philadelphia and WPRB in Princeton, New Jersey, Karcher has been the "full-time substitute host" at WBGO, where he has been part of the on-air team since 1997, a public radio station broadcasting from Newark, New Jersey that airs jazz and NPR programs. Formerly a commercial airline pilot, Karcher was a member of the team that created the social media campaign that created hype for the 1999 film The Blair Witch Project.[2][3]

As a film producer / designer, Karcher has worked on the 2007 film The Air I Breathe, the 2008 film The Objective and the DVD release of Behind the Scenes at Family Guy.[3] Karcher co-developed and appeared in Four Corners of Fear, a 2013 spoof of Blair Witch Project created by the original film's co-producer Eduardo Sanchez.[4]

References

  1. Oguss, Elizabeth. "Still hanging out at the Amphitheater", copy of article from The Montclair Times, June 4, 2009. Accessed October 30, 2016. "At first, Dan Karcher, a 1983 graduate of Montclair High School who now lives in Pattenburg, resisted joining Facebook, the social networking site middle-aged people have been flocking to."
  2. Daniel Karcher, WBGO. Accessed October 30, 2016.
  3. 1 2 Edel, Ray. "Five things you didn't know about Dan Karcher", The Record (Bergen County), April 9, 2010. Accessed October 30, 2016.
  4. Staff. "Blair Witch Project Director/Star Spoof Their Own Movie In Four Corners of Fear!!", Bloody Disgusting, October 31, 2013. Accessed October 30, 2016. "From The Blair Witch Project co-director Eduardo Sanchez comes Four Corners of Fear, a spoof of his own movie that features returning stars Joshua Leonard and Michael Williams, with Evan Ferrante.... Michael C. Williams, Evan Ferrante, Daniel Karcher, Eduardo Sanchez & Joshua Leonard all collaborated on this gem."
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