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Many thanks to WYSL

M

Mark Giardina

A few years after I 'retired' from broadcasting full time Bob Savage gave me the opportunity to keep "my toe in the water" by hiring me Saturday mornings at his station where I was allowed to perform a number of duties that included, for a time, a radio interview program.

Anyways I will be leaving WYSL on the 28th of this month after five years with the station. My how time does fly.

My decision to leave was simple. I wanted my weekends free to be with my family; especially my two granddaughters. Plus my daughter is getting married in July.

I wanted to take this opportunity to publicly thank Bob Savage and the rest of the staff at WYSL for making me feel like part of their radio family.

If all broadcasting operations were run like WYSL there would be more 'happy' people working in that industry, in my honest opinion.

Good luck to the folks at WYSL and a final goodbye to broadcasting for yours truly. 37 years is long enough to have fun.
 
Is this Giardina's Rapture? Good luck Mark, wherever you may be spending the ensuing years.

For the record, I have first dibs on Family's Buffalo FM 89.9 WFBF since it won't be needed after the 22nd. Let's spin the wheel of formats and the stunting begin.
 
To Mark---may you enjoy all the best for the future. Radio will miss you. Keep in touch, brother.

To Jim---we're gonna get dibs on WFRW in Webster/Newark, looks like a dynamite null-filler for our signal to the east. ;-)
 
Mark... you have a home here on the boards...(no matter what others think :D)

Go...be with family....that's what life is about

You can kabitz from the outside like many of us do...but NEVER look back at what could have been..it Was what it was

Best of things to come...

HDBG
 
Should we start the over-under pool now on how long before MG shows back up on the radio somewhere? Or, maybe it'll be a podcast...
 
Mark, thanks for the kind words, and we'll miss you.

Or maybe not.......? (Mysterious music stab from scratchy Pepper-Tanner music library LP)

With respect, Mark....you're a junkie. Like most of us. Sure, you'll sleep in on Saturdays, and you'll dutifully check off the honey-do list and read to the grandkids. And so it will go, for a while.

But one night, you'll have one of those "DJ dreams." You know the type. You're all alone on a Sunday afternoon at WCBA, a fuse blows disabling every piece of control room equipment but your mike and one turntable. Every time you pop a 45 on it, the record curls up like a maple leaf in October. The phones are ringing endlessly. Urgent bulletins are emerging from the AP machine. That dream haunts you....your fingers start itching for the Cool Edit mouse. Your frequency-of-posting here, and on your radio-oriented Facebook page, increases. At the dinner table, you find yourself pressing a nonexistent cough switch. You're watching a movie with the family and after a couple beers, you excuse yourself "to go do the meter readings." Your phone rings - and you clear your throat before picking up.

We all know it. Radio. You can check out any time you like. But you can NEVER leave. Godspeed and all that.

The end. OR....(more mysterious Pepper-Tanner music)....is it just.....the Beginning.....? ;)
 
.....or how about, of course when you're by yourself, talking up the intro of a song that you hear on the radio or on your computer to see if you can still 'do it'.
.....or how 'bout wheelin' off liners in the shower after you hear Mr. Radio guy on the radio giving the top of the hour ID.
.....2nd that on the dreams. Not ever seeming to have the next record cued or running outta music to play.
.....or using your middle finger to hit a button on your computer keyboard (like a hot button or mute) and thinking you're firing off a cart machine.
....or if you're on the phone with somebody and you make sure you say your 'W' correctly in radio style instead of sloppily - like dubya or douba you.

Congratulations Mark. Hope the ride was a good one. Time to enjoy the real things in life that really matter.

Do you still have the same license plate?

Bill
 
Mark, all the best, but stay sharp. When The Rapture really arrives, and all the execs from the big broadcast companies are taken up instantly, local ownership will again become the norm, and we'll need experienced reporters. If only to cover all the fires.
 
As an "off camera" voice guy for Mr. Savage I can surely duplicate your sentiments about him, and WYSL. A true professional, and because it's in his blood as it is in a lot of us...the station and it's passion reflects it's management. Bob is a radio hound..and knows what it takes to garner listeners and clients. I am proud to be a continuing small part of his operation.

Best of luck Mark. You may never know how many of us know of you out here!
 
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