Dan Potter
Dan Potter (Tulsa, OK), an award-winning journalist and program host, 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. He has been a stadium announcer for BOA Regionals. Super Regionals, and Grand Nationals since the late 1990s and became the announcer for Grand National Finals in 2024.
Potter 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 also conducts leadership workshops with high school drum majors.
Potter is a veteran radio personality and is the News Director at 89.5 KWGS Public Radio Tulsa. Prior to that, he spent 13 years crosstown as the host of the KRMG Morning News with Dan Potter.
In his decades covering news in Texas and Oklahoma, Potter 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 U.S. and the DuPont-Columbia University Silver Baton for excellence in broadcast journalism. In 2015 and 2020, Potter 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, Potter 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.”
Potter and his wife, Martha, reside in Tulsa with two spoiled dogs and lots of pictures of their kids and eight grandkids.