Re(1): Who's Drew Posted on October 9, 2023 at 11:23:19 PM by Drew
I doubt anyone in radio knows me. I’ve only board operated at a non-comm station on the left end of the dial while I was in college. I had a true passion for radio back then. Until time after time my ideas were shot down. That’s when I switched from broadcasting towards an interest in a computer science degree. It was a little disheartening actually working in radio when I enjoyed radio growing up in Kansas City.
I was an 80’s and 90’s kid listening to Power 95 and Q104 to the early years of rock radio like KY102 and then KQRC before hearing Alt Rock for the first time on the Lazer in my older brother’s car. My friends also started listening to Alt Rock too when Smashing Pumpkins and Green Day first came out being played alongside the Cure, Depeche Mode, REM, and Love And Rockets.
From sleepovers at friends ‘ houses, to road trips in the car, to my first date in Jr. High school, to hanging out at the mall, I would always be listening to see what the radio played next. It didn’t matter if it was on my stereo at home, or I took it with me on my Sony Discman. I would take it with me to decide what CD I would buy next at the music store.
I even pretended to play DJ in the basement with stacks and stacks of CD’s, while recording my voice on tape pretending to run my own station practicing what I would say. (I know I was kinda nerdy back then.)I grew up listening to Jason Justice on the Lazer, Roach and Sumo on The X, and yes later on, Lazlo on the Buzz when I was in high school.
I had a passion back then, and I still do now, but it bums me out a little it’s more like an automated machine these days. Voice tracking with little to no interaction with the listeners, little if any local programming, and no more local contests to get the community all excited without it being a national registration by stations under the same company all across the country.
I won’t drag on about the so called “good old days of radio” but I do miss how radio played an important part in people’s lives.
Oh well! Keep your head up folks! And stay positive kids! Replies: