Peter B's Morning Show Moves to Sundays

Nothing has frozen over. Farm animals are not flying, however DJs apparently can shepherd a flock. Deacon Peter Bucalo, known by Louisville radio listeners for twenty years as Peter B, will be ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Louisville on Saturday, May 30. Bucalo was consistently Louisville's top rated FM morning drive time jock. He plied his trade on WDJX, as a generation of pop music fans will attest.

Additionally, Peter B was the long time popular host of Comedy Caravan's Thursday night shows. Comedy Caravan was Louisville's first live entertainment nightclub to promote smoke free shows. One of Bucalo's funnier lines was to "apologize to the couple from Brandenburg, who drove up for 'Smoke Free Thursdays' expecting to receive cigarettes at no charge." That chapter of his life ended in 2007, when he decided to tune to a higher frequency. Bucalo retired from the airwaves and eventually entered Southern Indiana's St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology. Earlier this month he graduated with a masters degree in divinity.

Deacon Bucalo was born in The Bronx, New York, but moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan with his family as a toddler. He earned a business degree from Michigan State University, concentrating in radio and television broadcasting. His first job in that profession was as part of a morning crew of hosts on a Chicago FM station. He was recruited to Louisville in 1987 and began his stint as Louisville's longest running FM morning host.

According to Bucalo, his decision was not an overnight one. He fell away from his Catholic faith while an undergrad in college. Through personal struggles, including a severe illness, and a longing to return to his faith, he gradually began participating in church related activities, until his decision to enter the seminary.

Deacon Peter Bucalo's ordination will take place Saturday, May 30 at 11:00 a.m. at the Cathedral of the Assumption, 433 South Fifth Street. He will celebrate his first Mass of Thanksgiving May 31, at St. Louis Bertrand Church, 1104 South Sixth Street, at 10:30 a.m.
He will serve as associate pastor of Church of the Holy Spirit, on Lexington Road.

Photo courtesy of Archdiocese of Louisville