Companies With Their Heads in the Sand

Wow! Yes, that was about the size of coffee I would need every day to get through my last job. The stress at that place was unimaginable, and every day something completely dysfunctional happened. From what I’ve heard, the company is still behaving the same way. Radio, as I have mentioned in previous blogs, is …

Music and the 80’s Generation’s First Big Goodbye

That’s my crazy radio DJ face. Very frightening. It’s a fun job, no money in it, but for a type like me that enjoys a wide swath of music it fits me. When I first started in radio in 1986 there were at that moment no Michael Jackson hits getting played in tight rotation on …

The Great Americana Radio Format and Why It’s Gone

The high point of my radio career was somewhere around 2002. The corporation that owned us happened upon their one good idea…to let me be more creative and have more control of my radio show. They also decided that on Sunday evenings they would play 2 hours of “Americana” music. Americana falls somewhere between the …