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Top 10 Songs For Driving In The Rain

These are the Top 10 current best songs to listen to while driving at nite in the rain, or after a breakup, or maybe if you are just taking the new car out for a nite time spin. 10. It Will Rain-Bruno Mars 9. Home-Michael Buble 8. Drops of Jupiter-Train 7. Breakeven-The Script 6. In [...]

The Internet – I AM NOT Addicted

(John Lyman’s Webcam — refresh your screen to update the webcam picture) **It’s stuff like this that gets people addicted to the internet!!!**   We are bombarded with information, from TV, radio, cell phones and Internet. We are “in touch” and accessible 24/7. We are, possibly, unable to easily exist without these conveniences. Or, are we? [...]

Exit – Stage Right

George Michael,  sports television anchor for decades, who reached a national audience with ”The George Michael Sports Machine” highlights show, has died. He was 70 years old. Michael started his career at WFIL Philadelphia at the height of that stations’ rock & roll heyday, Michael was an on-air DJ and Music Director. George Michael died [...]

Whatever happened to: KJR’s Kevin O’Brien?

Back in the 70s, KJR hired the son of a well-known radio programmer, maybe it was a favor they owed. The kid was Kevin O’Brien. Real last name: Metheny. He was obnoxious, full of himself and was a pain to listen to. In fact, I didn’t listen to Kevin O’Brien, choosing anything else on the [...]

Do The Mouse!

50s/60s kiddie show host and former WNBC radio DJ, Soupy Sales, died Thursday. He was 83. He might hold the pie-throwing record, beating the Three Stooges by a couple thousand pies at least. He had a hit record with a dance tune, Do The Mouse. Not a great tune by any means. But, he was [...]

KTOY Silenced By A Series Of Errors

I attended LH Bates Vocational-Technical College, now called Bates College, back in the early 70s. The radio broadcast tech program allowed one to practice being a broadcaster on a working radio station and acquire your 1st-Class FCC License in the meantime. These days, a “1st” is not required. A lot has changed in the radio [...]