The AMN

[jackmort68]

THE AMN has been brought up on this board many times. Whether you are for or anti Allegheny Mountain Network, The Simpson family has given many people including me their start in radio. Where does someone in radio go to get their start? With voicetracking and satellite shows across the dial, how does someone break in? Who has a board op shift or an overnight show to fill?? Nowadays new talent is getting their start voicetracking which is probably harder to do than a live shift because you are actually trying to imitate being on live. If you've never done it, how can you re-create it???
The next time you hear someone 'green' on the air, dont poke fun. Feel good that someone is given this person a chance to learn. Where would we all be without that chance???
Does someone have a remote at the Coalport rattlesnake hunt to board-op?? Theres a nerdy 17 old willing to learn that will work for 2 dollars an hour and will be thrilled.
Kudos to Cary and Ted

 

[Harlow]

Hey someone is talking about me.

I was the kid running the board for Pirates games. I was the one who broadcast the Osceola Mills 4th of July parade.

I also got to do afternoons as a junior in high school and program a radio station at 19.

If you could operate WTRN back in the day, you could do anything. At WTRN, you controlled WGMR, WIYQ and took transmitter readings and put back on the air WKBI, WNBT, WBLF and WFRM.

There was never a better training ground than the good old AMN.

Plus, with Bill Moses on remote, the memories are priceless.

 

[clangham]

Agree 100% with you John. Always enjoyed working with Cary, Ted, and the whole crew. I can't say I got my start there, but did get the opportunity to be a PD/MD there for awhile (Power 99) and picked up on a lot of good knowledge for later. Cary is very intelligent and I respect him very much as a business owner/operator.

 

[wesrichards]

To all of you who got your start with AMN, here's a reverse twist. I, indirectly, probably will get my end through them. Because I got to know Ted, I also got to know Michael and Dianna at the former AMN station, WBLF, and now "work" there in the afternoon. So if I hadn't gotten to know Ted, I probably wouldn't have gotten to WBLF, which more than likely will be my last job. These are good people. And this IS a great place to start. But I'm having the time of my (longer than expected) professional life, and that's no small thing either. Yeah, these are good guys.

 

[wirelessinnepa]

I'll chime in too....I rarely ever post on this board, but I do read it from time to time...I was given the chance to do sales at 22 and then station management at 26 by Ted and Cary....the lessons I learned have gotten me into radio ownership....Cary and Ted have given way more to the radio industry than can ever be repaid and than they will ever get back....God Bless them for that! The amount of times during and since that I have been able to call up Cary and get a word of advice are countless. It means a lot. I hope when I am Cary's age that people think of me as fondly as they think of Cary. And Ted hired a 26 year old guy to turn around a station in Chambersburg, and we did it....together...between the years of 1999 and 2001...the AMN (read Cary and Ted) believes in people.....and I am one of the people they believed in.


Ben Smith
WGMF/WCOZ/WEMR

 

[shilton]

Easiest way I can sum up the AMN is by saying...the only place I ever quit where I felt bad about leaving and even when I was walking out the door, they were still kind...wished me well and told me I am welcome to come back if the urge ever strikes me. Cary and Ted are good people...and they truly care about their staff and treat em like part of a family and if you read the comments made by many of their current and former staffers, you will see that people seem to echo that sentiment time and time again.