John Garabedian

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John Garabedian is an American radio personality and disc jockey, known as the host of Open House Party. He has been involved in Massachusetts radio and television stations for around fifty years. John lives in Boston Massachusetts.

At the age of 17, John joined Worcester station WORC-AM as a disc jockey. Several years after joining, he became a co-host of the original Open House Party radio program, which was a weekday show at that time. By the late 1960s, John was a program director at WMEX-AM (now WWZN), and worked with well-known Boston-area disc jockey Arnie Ginsburg.

In 1969, John and partners founded WGTR-AM (now WBIX) as a top-40 station serving MetroWest from Natick. About a decade later, he and his partners would add a second station, broadcasting from Nantucket, WGTF-FM (which eventually became the current WRZE).

Two years after MTV's 1981 debut, John and fellow WMEX alumnus Arnie Ginsburg started a Boston-area 24-hour music video station, WVJV-TV (now WUTF-TV). Their station, known by its nickname, "V-66", mirrored MTV's early all-video format and lasted until 1986, when WVJV phased out videos and was sold to the Home Shopping Network.

About twenty years after the start of his V-66 channel, in 2003, John would found his second music and youth-oriented cable television station, XY.tv. The show found distributors, but ceased operations in 2006.

Following the end of his first television venture, John returned to radio. In 1987, John revived the Open House Party show as a Saturday and Sunday evening, all-request program on Boston station WXKS-FM. Over the next twenty years, the program grew into a nationally syndicated show, broadcast on over 100 stations in the United States.