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How I got started in radio

I now work in Orlando, but in 1980 while I was a Senior in High School I ran the Lutheran Hour on KCOL in Ft Collins, CO.
You could say I have been on a mission from God ever since. I started at $3.10 an hour (minimum wage).

My first Full time gig was $650 a month in Fargo North Dakota at Super Statioin Double KK fm doing over nights. Guess who the Morning Man was?? Broadway Bill Lee...NO SHIT.

I've spent the last 30 years breaking rules and tearing up markets like New York, Atlanta, L.A., Dallas, Oklahoma City and Little Rock, Ark.

I consider it a true blessing to still be doing what I love. It doesn't pay like it used to and the amount of Corporate Bullshit you have to weather is like a daily enema, but I still represent the way radio used to be. FUN, by the seat of your pants insanity with a wall of great music.

I also get to work with one of my favorite people in the "Biz" Rick Stacy again here in Orlando. Here's to keeping the flame alive. The Mic is still my weapon of choice and if I didn't do radio I would pick the highest window I could find and jump oooooooouuuuuuuttttttttt. www.1059sunnyfm.com every day 2p-7p
 
I actually got into radio on a dare from my mom. Our little 500-watt radio station advertised on-air for a DJ, and she dared me to apply for the job. Unbelievably, I got it. I was 16 at the time, and before I got the job I had to get my 3rd class ticket, which I still have in a file folder somewhere. I worked in radio for about five years before I got into TV, again on a dare. All I had was a radio aircheck, but I got the job anyway. That was nearly 30 years ago.

Fun times. No, not really. I shoulda got a real job. :D
 
1958 [when I started] we used 3 real sand fill based 18" turntables with dual pick-up arms. One pick-up for 45's & 33's. The other for the 18" Standard transcriptions that played from the center out. Magnacorders were the control room standard, we had 4. Jingles & spots all reel to reel. You talk about busy queing those when most records were 2 minutes! Production room had 2 Ampex machines. RCA DX77's were the only ones we had and the boards were Gates & Collins. And yes, we were required to have at least 3rd phones.....when we were directional, only 1st phones read the transmitter. Now, 52 years later........what a difference.......click the mouse & mike and that's it! All the way from then to now, it's been a great ride. I still wake up wondering just how broadcasting will evolve tomorrow.
 
copydesk2 said:
My radio career ended the first time I ran into "anesthetist" in copy. :D
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Not to be confused with that gag from "Three's Company", where the lead character gave out business cards reading "Jack, Therapist." "The rapist?"
 
Just found the site. 1st post and this looks like a good one to jump into. I grew up in Denton, TX and went to NTSU (UNT) in 1970. After flunking out of business courses, I found my way to the Radio/TV Dept where I switched majors. After many hours of practice in the production room, I was able to get on the student station (KNTU) for no pay of course.

During the summer of '71 I left college without a degree and headed to Elkins in Dallas to get my 1st Class ticket. After I got the "paper" I headed to Liberal Kansas in August '71 and took a job on Top 40 KSCB-AM for about $440.00 per month. I hung out with Hal Jay (now longtime WBAP jock) who was about my age. He worked at the country station across the street. We both left Liberal.

He hit the big time, I ended up in Wichita Falls, Tx and have been here ever since. I left radio 2 years ago. I guess 38 years doesn't get me the gold watch does it? ;D

My dream was to work at KLIF in the 70s, but it was not meant to be.
 
One job I got stuck with was running religion on Sundays. Both the AM and FM started running Public Affairs/Religous tapes starting at 6am. There was "The Lutheran Hour" (only one i remember). Country CrossRoads and PowerLine were the only two that were listenable, in my opinion.

After playing these tapes on the air, they all had to be put back in cardboard re-mailers and left for the receptionist to take to the post office. Must have been 15 tapes we sent off each week, and they magically showed up in my 'production' box by Sunday morning.

Painful programming......tough on the ears :)


--bud
 
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