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Did you start in high school or college?

Quote from: cleavo on Yesterday at 09:25:09 am
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I used to set up tape players and a microphone and pretend I was on the radio when I was little

LMAO!!! I swear I thought I was the only one that did that!!!
Quote from: RadioGaGa75 on Yesterday at 09:21:49 pm
Yep Cleavo, I guess you and I are a rare breed.


I guess you have to add me to the group. I used to spin records, have the TV on the local time and temp channel (remember with the weather forecast scrolling on the top in red, the middle in blue with the currents, and a green bar with ads scrolling on the bottom?), a toy CB was my transmitter. I used duct tape to key one CB and had the other wherever my mother was in the house! I guess I was about six or so.
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So here's the kicker (Warning: Proud Papa Bragging ahead):

For Father's Day last year, my two boys (12 and 9) presented me with a cassette tape. Imagine how pleased (not to mention how scared) I was when I popped it into a player (I had to go find one!) to hear them doing their "radio show" "just like dad"!!! Brought a tear to my eye (and not just at the thought of them starving in the business, either). ;)
 
Started messing around with my aunt's bohunker reel to reel when I was 4 in 1958 creating all kinds of radio shows.

Got to sing Christmas carols on WGST in 1960 while in the first grade.

Was a part of my school's cable television operation in College Park (Woodward Academy). Performed on WTJH in East Point while in high school - I will not divulge what it was I was doing on air....

Was at WRAS between 1973 and 1975 when through a serendipitous meeting with JJ Jackson at WQXI one day I helped Sonny Fox get his 3rd Class license back (long story) and because of that Scott Shannon gave me my first real commercial gig at WQXI FM... didn't need a resume or an aircheck which is ironic considering how many of them I had bombarded Don Benson with beforehand when he was Shannon's assistant...back when he was Professor Benson...
 
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