Steve Slaton (DJ)

Steve Slaton (born January 16, 1953) is an American rock and roll disc jockey and music director.

He attended Lincoln High, and in 1969, at age 16, began studying radio broadcasting at a local vocational school in Tacoma.

His most frequently played artists consisted of AC/DC, Metallica, Van Halen, Def Leppard, Scorpions, Tom Petty, Heart, Led Zeppelin, and others.

In the early 1990s, Time magazine quoted Slaton on the emerging Seattle grunge scene, describing him as the "regent of the local deejays.

"[4] In October 1992, Slaton moved to 102.5 KZOK-FM where he hosted afternoons, along with the Sunday morning program "Breakfast with the Beatles" from 1999 until his departure in December 2008.