Over the airwaves: Eric Chase brings Toledo to Toledoans

Over the airwaves: Eric Chase brings Toledo to Toledoans Radio DJ and podcaster Eric Chase hosting his afternoon show at Q105 on July 22. Eric Chase broadcasts what’s going on in Toledo on the Eric Chase podcast, the afternoon segment of Q105.5, and other audio ventures — but what’s going on with Eric Chase? Born in Philadelphia, Chase has hunted DJ positions in new cities eight times since making Toledo his forever home, though he would never dare use the term “permanent.” In the world of media, Chase says a “go with the flow” attitude is necessary for survival. Radio came natural to Chase when he first started at his hometown top 40 station. Chase later went to Detroit, when his mentor relocated there. Today he continues to float on an easy balance between sharing his personal interests with the similar interests of Toledoans. Advertisement SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT ADVERTISEMENT What’s harder is maintaining that audience across a growing number of platforms for content creators and auditory media — a stage which radio rarely shares. “I’m a survivor in a lot of ways, because there’s far fewer people in this business than there was just five years ago, certainly 25 years ago,” Chase said. The Four Hundred & Nineteen podcast with co-hosts Gretchen DeBacker, Matt Killam, and Kevin Mullan, one of the few other Toledo-specific productions, began only last year. WGTE also continues its Toledo podcast, which first published in 2024. While a handful of other shows have come and gone, Chase has endured the rough seas of legacy media while battling the monster that is niche content creation. In some ways Chase’s podcast, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, and dog-sprinkled Instagram are a necessary evil for the modern radio DJ to stay relevant and on-demand, in other ways, they’r