John Garabedian

John H. Garabedian is an American radio personality and disc jockey born on December 20, 1941 (age 75). He is best known as the creator and former long-time host of Open House Party. He has been involved in Massachusetts radio and television stations for over fifty years. Garabedian currently owns three homes, all in New England: one in Southborough, Massachusetts, another on Cape Cod, and a cabin-like home in Cabot, Vermont.

At the age of 17, Garabedian joined Worcester station WORC 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 1971, Garabedian was a program director at WMEX/1510, and worked with well-known Boston-area disc jockey Arnie "Woo-Woo" Ginsburg.

In 1969, Garabedian and partners founded WGTR/1060 (now WQOM) as a top-40 station serving MetroWest from Natick. About a decade later, he and his partners added a second station, broadcasting from Nantucket, WGTF-FM (which eventually became the current WEII).

In the period around 1975, Garabedian was an afternoon DJ on WBCN in Boston.

Four years after MTV's 1981 debut, Garabedian and his aforementioned 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, "V66", mirrored MTV's early all-video format and lasted until 1986, when WVJV phased out videos and was sold to the HSN. "Life On The V: The Story Of V66" is a documentary released in 2014, about the channel.

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