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Sunny Quinn has been a high-profile radio and television personality in South Florida since the mid 80's. For 13 years, she hosted the #1 midday radio program in Palm Beach County on Adult Contemporary station WEAT Sunny 104.3 FM, owned by CBS Radio. For six years, she was the Director of Education and the lead instructor at The Connecticut School of Broadcasting in West Palm Beach. She is also a founding partner of Top Hat Productions, an audio production company that produces radio and television commercials, messages-on hold for businesses, video and web narration, phone prompts, and just about anything else that may require spoken words. They also conduct voiceover training workshops.
Sunny, formerly a midwife and neonatal intensive care registered nurse, began her radio career at Foxy 1040 AM in Delray Beach. Only months after that, she was offered a position at WNGS Lite 92.1 FM as News and Public Affairs Director and morning drive sidekick. Six years later the station was sold, and Sunny moved into a position at WEAT Sunny 104.3 FM, where she created a #1 evening program "Sunny After Dark," featuring love songs and dedications. During that same time period, she developed the very popular top-rated "Sunday Jazz Brunch." She was then promoted to middays, where she quickly took the ratings right up to #1 once again.
As a result of her success in taking three programs to top status, Sunny was offered the first solo female morning drive position in South Florida with classic rock station WZZR 92.7 FM. After a highly successful stint at ZZR, she decided to take a break from the air for two years to go on the road for reunion rock tours with her husband, Don Brewer, drummer/singer with classic rock groups Grand Funk Railroad and Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band.
While spending endless hours flying on tour, she authored and published three books: Put Your Mouth Where The Money Is, Morning Mosh, and Tales of The American Band: Grand Funk Railroad. Two of the books are about broadcasting and the third is about Grand Funk. Sunny has since been recognized in the International Authors and Writers Who's Who of 1999-2000. At the conclusion of the road tour, she returned to her midday airshift at Sunny 104.3.
Sunny has appeared many times over the years on local and national television. After performing in numerous TV commercials, she was the host of three locally produced magazine programs. For two years, she anchored a weekly nationwide entertainment segment for the National Enquirer that aired on WWOR. She also made a guest appearance on VH-1's "Behind The Music" in the story of Grand Funk Railroad.
Sunny is the recipient of more than seventy awards for excellence in broadcasting and radio programming, including the American Women in Radio and Television’s “Radio Personality of the Year” and “Programming Achievement,” the "Voice of the Palm Beaches" by the Advertising Federation of South Florida, five Florida Associated Press Best of Show First Place Awards for Public Affairs Programming, seven American Cancer Society Best of Show Awards, the Florida Medical Association’s “Best of Show for Public Awareness Award," the Florida Teacher's Association's "Newsmaker Award," and dozens of Gold, Silver, and Sowers Pace Addy Awards for excellence in commercial production.
Sunny has a long and strong history of community service in the South Florida area. She is a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Lung Association of Southeast Florida, in addition to Chairman of the Communications Committee. She served on the Editorial Board of WEAT AM/FM in West Palm Beach, and hosted over a hundred charitable events throughout the years. Her pet charity is Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary and Hospital, a no-kill rescue facility in Jupiter, Florida. Two of her cats were adopted from Safe Harbor.
Sunny resides in South Florida, although many of her weekends are spent on the road traveling around the country with her hubby with either Grand Funk or Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band. While at home, Sunny is found engrossed in her five networked computers, beading jewelry, or dabbling in digital photography and graphic design.
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