Terry James "TJ" Lubinsky (born March 24, 1972) is a radio host and executive producer/director of many
PBS oldies format music programs.
Lubinsky was born in
Bradley Beach, New Jersey. His grandfather, Herman Lubinsky, Sr., founded Savoy Records in
Newark, and introduced acts that would be influential in modern popular music (Doo-Wop, Motown, disco and Top 40). Lubinsky, Sr., also founded and operated
New Jersey's first radio station WNJ. His uncle, "Buzzy", was also a well-known club disc jockey in New Jersey. At 16, TJ obtained his
General Equivalency Diploma and accepted his first television job at Monmouth Cable TV-34 in New Jersey, where he learned his craft for television production. He worked on different news, studio, and sport remotes that served 31 towns, boroughs and municipalities along the Jersey Shore.
When he turned 22, Lubinsky was offered a job to work for PBS in south
Florida, and eventually
Pittsburgh, often considered the mecca of oldies music. In Pittsburgh, he blended his passion for Doo-Wop, Motown, classic Philly Soul and '60s Rock and Roll oldies into PBS's most successful fundraisers as the creator and executive producer of "Doo-Wop '50", and over 30 national television specials from PBS which archive America's soundtrack from the '50s, '60s and '70s through his "My Music" series. Lubinsky was notable for producing the 2005 "Stereo Motown Box Set."
