Cubby Bryant
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Paul "Cubby" Bryant (born June 1, 1971) is a radio personality currently working as the morning host at WKTU in New York City. He most recently served as the co-host and sidekick to Whoopi Goldberg on the nationally syndicated morning show Wake Up With Whoopi. Before joining Whoopi Goldberg as co-host of the morning show, Cubby was at crosstown sister station WHTZ serving as their Afternoon Drive Disc Jockey and Music Director.
Cubby began his radio career in his hometown of Virginia Beach, VA at WGH-FM (97 Star) in 1988, there was where he inherited his current radio name Cubby for being so young (at the time 16) and in radio. It was a take off of Alabama football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant (no relation). Then, Cubby joined 104.1 KRBE in Houston, TX as Night Host and Music Director from 1990-1996. In 1996, Cubby began his tenure at WHTZ (Z100) in New York as Afternoon Drive Host and Music Director. In 2000, Cubby went around the world with the group The Backstreet Boys to promote the release of Black & Blue, the boys traveled around the world in 100 hours to Sweden, Japan, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, and the US; 55 of the hours were spent traveling and 45 were spent making public appearances.
In mid-2006, Cubby announced he would be leaving WHTZ after a ten year run with the station to co-host Wake Up With Whoopi. WKTU cancelled Wake Up With Whoopi in November 2007.
In January 2008, Bryant left Wake Up With Whoopi, still airing in syndication in a few markets, to return to WKTU, this time as the station's solo morning host.
[edit] Video appearances
In November 2001, Cubby appeared on "Hollywood Squares" as a contestant on "Radio DJ Week". He went to the bonus round but eventually lost. Cubby did however win $12,500 for the charity Musicians On Call.
Cubby is featured in the video for 'Walk Away' by Kelly Clarkson. He is the DJ heard introducing the song over the radio at the beginning of the video.
You can get a very quick glimpse of Cubby during the closing credits of the 2000 movie "Longshot". Cubby played a stock reporter in footage that never made the final cut of the movie. To show their gratitude, the directors at least got a little of what took Cubby over 4 hours to tape into the end of the flick.
Cubby was seen on HBO's "NSync - Live at Madison Square Garden" in 2000, also available on DVD.
[edit] Other appearances
Cubby serves as fill-in host for Kid Kelly on his syndicated music program "Backtrax USA"
Cubby's voice is featured in the basketball video game "And 1" for Playstation 2 and XBox.
