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An award-winning journalist and program host, Dan Potter (Tulsa, OK) has been involved in marching band and drum corps for over 40 years. He is an announcer and media personality for Bands of America and Drum Corps International and is also the host of popular marching arts podcasts, including BOA’s Break Ranks on the Music for All Podcast Network.
Dan was a drum major in both high school marching band and drum corps. He has instructed high school bands in Indiana, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Zephyrus Performing Arts, the parent organization of Zephyrus Drum & Bugle Corps, a DCI Open Class corps.
He is a veteran radio personality, most recently as the host of the KRMG Morning News with Dan Potter in Tulsa.
In his decades covering news in Texas and Oklahoma, Dan has witnessed many historic events first-hand, including a presidential inauguration, political conventions, and too many tornadoes to count. He is the recipient of numerous broadcast journalism awards, including the Radio Television News Directors Association’s Edward R. Murrow award for best radio newscast in the US and the DuPont-Columbia University Silver Baton for excellence in broadcast journalism. In 2015 and 2020, Dan received the National Association of Broadcasters’ Marconi Award for Medium Market Personality of the Year.
As the longtime host of “Stories of Light,” a three day radiothon in Tulsa, Dan helped Make-A-Wish Oklahoma raise over $4,000,000, granting nearly 600 wishes to kids with life-threatening illnesses. In 2021, Make-A-Wish Oklahoma named its annual volunteer of the year recognition the “Dan Potter Community Service Award.”
Dan and his wife, Martha, reside in Tulsa with two spoiled dogs and lots of pictures of their kids and grandkids.