Basim Blunt
Basim has worked in the media for over twenty years, as an A&R rep with Capitol Records and as a morning drive show producer. He is a filmmaker, media arts adjunct, and also a digital editing teacher in the Dayton Metro area. In 2012 he joined WYSO as a Community Voices Producer, and his work has earned him a “New Voices” Scholar award by (AIR) Association of Independents in Radio. Basim has produced the award-winning documentary Boogie Nights: A History of Funk Music in Dayton. He also served as Project Manager for ReInvention Stories, a multimedia docu-series produced by Oscar-winning filmmakers Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert. In 2020, Blunt received a PMJA (Public Media Journalists Association) award for his WYSO series Dayton Youth Radio, for which he is the founding producer and instructor. Basim spins an eclectic mix of funk, soul, and classic R&B every Friday night from 10:00 pm to midnight, as host of the 91.3 FM music show Behind the Groove.
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This week on Dayton Youth Radio, we'll hear from Blair Elmore who produced this story last spring during the presidential primary season when he was a... -
On this week's Dayton Youth Radio we'll hear a story Naja Long, a student at the Dayton Early College Academy, about the memory of her grandmother. Naja... -
This week on Dayton Youth Radio we have a feature from the David H. Ponitz Career Technology Center about the pressures teens face when it comes to... -
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This week on Dayton Youth Radio we'll hear from Sura Aldulaimi, a DECA student whose family came to America from Iraq. Sura reflects on what it was like... -
Today on Dayton Youth Radio we have a story from Ponitz CTC student Mickel Miles. He’s concerned about what he sees as a shortage of entertainment... -
This week on Dayton Youth Radio we have a story from Deonna Parker, a student at Ponitz Career Technology Center, about the double standard she sees... -
Today on Dayton Youth Radio, we'll hear a story from Triston Rodgers, who came to Springfield needing a lot of help. He got the support he needed from a... -
Dayton Youth Radio returns today with a story from Anna Mullin, a Yellow Springs High School student who will be voting for the first time in this year... -
Today on Dayton Youth Radio, our first story from teenagers in Springfield. Siblings Dosjine and Odyssee Brown took our youth radio training course at...
