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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 business. [...]
The failure of AIR America Radio to gain audience acceptance and ratings = bounced paychecks, stations going dark and lots of whining from liberals. There is a movement underway to bring about a change in how talkradio operates. A movement by Liberals to change the rules to suit their needs. There is even a movement [...]
It is that time, just before the “new Fall Season” of TV. 500 channels of entertainment in HD, and there is nothing to see. We didn’t have all these options years ago. “Back in the old days”, in Seattle-Tacoma, we had 7 channels, if you counted KTPS Channel 62, which was totally in black and white and [...]
