Cubby Bryant

American radio personality

Paul "Cubby" Bryant (born June 1, 1971) is an on air radio personality who has hosted and co hosted programs at stations in multiple markets and in syndication. Notable tenures, all based in New York City, include ten years at WHTZ (Z100), co hosting 103.5 WKTU's syndicated Wake Up With Whoopi morning show with Whoopi Goldberg, taking over solo morning duties at WKTU following the cancellation of Wake Up , and co headlining the morning show at 106.7 WLTW beginning in May 2019.

Bryant began his radio career in his hometown of Virginia Beach, VA at WGH FM (97 Star) in 1988, there was where he inherited his current radio name Cubby (a name given to him by WGH DJs Tony Macrini and Jeff Moreau) for being so young (at the time 16) and in radio. It was a take off of Alabama football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant (no relation). In September 1990, Bryant joined 104.1 KRBE in Houston, TX as Night Host and Music Director. In April 1996, Bryant began his tenure at WHTZ (Z100) in New York City as Afternoon Drive Host and Music Director. In 2000, Bryant went around the world with the group Backstreet Boys to promote the release of Black & Blue, the boys traveled around the world in 100 hours to Sweden, Japan, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, and the US; 55 of the hours were spent traveling and 45 were spent making public appearances. In mid 2006, Bryant announced he would be leaving WHTZ after a ten year run with the station to co host Wake Up With Whoopi. WKTU dropped Wake Up With Whoopi from its lineup in November 2007, and in January 2008, Bryant left the show (still airing in syndication in a few markets) to return to WKTU, this time as the station's solo morning host. In 2001, He and Cindy Vero co hosted WKTU’s Cubby and Cindy morning show. In 2014 he was joined by Carolina Bermudez. On May 28, 2019, Bryant moved to WLTW as co host of the morning show with Christine Nagy. Bryant is a resident of East Brunswick, NJ after moving from New York City. He was born and raised in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

In November 2001, Bryant appeared on Hollywood Squares as a contestant on "Radio DJ Week". He went to the bonus round but eventually lost. Bryant did however win $11,000 for the charity Musicians On Call. Bryant is featured in the video for Walk Away by Kelly Clarkson. He is the DJ heard introducing the song over the radio at the beginning of the video. You can get a very quick glimpse of Bryant during the closing credits of the 2000 movie "Longshot". Bryant played a stock reporter in footage that never made the final cut of the movie. To show their gratitude, the directors at least got a little of what took Bryant over 4 hours to tape into the end of the flick. Bryant was seen on HBO's "NSync Live at Madison Square Garden" in 2001.

Bryant served as fill in host for Kid Kelly on his syndicated music program Backtrax USA. Bryant's voice is featured in the basketball video game AND 1 Streetball for PlayStation 2 and Xbox. Bryant made a brief appearance on the season premiere of American Idol (Season 12) on January 16, 2013.