bob pantano

Bob Pantano is the host of the Saturday Night Dance Party in Philadelphia on 98.1 WOGL HD II. This is the first and longest running radio dance party in the nation, now celebrating 44 years.

Bob Pantano, a South Philadelphia native, started spinning at the record hops in the late 1960s and then the nightclubs in the 70s. His professional radio career began on WCAM in Camden, New Jersey in 1971. Bob pioneered the live-radio broadcast, The Saturday Night Dance Party, in 1977, which airs every Saturday night live from 7:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. and has enthralled and entertained Philadelphia audiences with its upbeat dance music.