Where you can hear Virginia Sinicki: The KVJ Show on 97.9 WRMF
Virginia Sinicki has seen many changes in radio since she began her career in 1992, but the most notable change might be her wardrobe. “We used to be able to go to work in pajamas, no makeup, and hair all arrrgh!” she says, quickly flipping her hair on top of her head, forming a makeshift bird’s nest to demonstrate. It is this quirky, witty, fun-loving personality that has made the Tequesta resident a fan favorite on the popular KVJ Show for the past 26 years.
Originally from New Orleans, Sinicki was introduced to radio while studying broadcast journalism at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. “I was not a good student,” she says. “I wanted to be, but I just didn’t have the brain capacity.” She ended up doing an internship at classic rock station 100.7 The Tiger in Baton Rouge and left LSU soon after when she was offered a full-time job as a salesperson and on-air talent. She was 19 years old.
Over the next seven years, Sinicki moved from Louisiana to stations in Huntsville, Alabama; New York City; and Gulfport, Mississippi before she got the call that would bring her to Florida in 1999. “[Kevin Rolston] had been offered the job here in Florida at WiLD 95.5, and he was trying to find a female cohost,” recalls Sinicki. “We had great chemistry.”
She moved to West Palm Beach and spent the next 14 years on WiLD 95.5 with Rolston and Jason Pennington, who was added to the show in 2004, making it The KVJ Show (“KVJ” for Kevin, Virginia, and Jason). After a brief stint in Miami, the threesome eventually landed at their current home on West Palm Beach–based 97.9 WRMF, where they spend weekday mornings entertaining listeners with conversations about everything—and nothing. “It’s like Seinfeld; it’s a show about nothing,” says Sinicki. “It’s a show about people just living their lives and trying to survive in the world.”
More than three decades into her radio career, Sinicki still loves being an on-air personality. “It’s pandemonium, it’s silliness, it’s being a crazy person and getting paid for it,” she says. “My nature is to be a crazy person, so it falls right in line with how I’m put together.”
In 2013, The KVJ Show launched a podcast, which Sinicki says allows them to “talk a little bit more naughty and scandalous.” This year, their focus is on KVJ Cares, a foundation she and her cohosts formed to support various needs in the community. “It’s really a grassroots thing,” says Sinicki. “People in our KVJ Nation make recommendations on what we should do, where we should go, and who we should help, and we are able to mobilize to help.”
Sinicki says she’d also love to start planning adventures for listeners. “I really want to take a giant group of listeners to New Orleans, my hometown, for Mardi Gras,” she says. “I don’t know if it will be manageable, but it would be so fun.” And maybe just a little bit crazy—but Sinicki wouldn’t have it any other way.
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