Re(9): another talker back Posted on June 5, 2025 at 04:56:08 PM by rman
Your blaming me for shit done by your colleages. I've never called Parks Snot Parks, and never heard Jerry Fogel. I dont resort to juvenile shit like that. You hold "hate you for long time, GI." I hope you made money off that side profession.
YOu must have started out as a board op? My first radio job was as a Saturday board op, playing NBC Monitor tapes then they heard my deep voice and moved me to afternoon news. That was a 10,000 watt station in my college town...where I had to earn my tuition and living expenses.
I remember taking that job because I was tired of mopping floors at a traditional restaurant after closing. I knew a guy doing part time radio cross town, decided if he can do it, I can. Thats when I learned how fun it was to be a field reporter, see the big sides they showed on TV. This was in a market that wasn't rated so didnt' have consultants but our signal got clear down to the border. In those days I learned how to do it listening to clear channel WLS Chicago at night. And Christmasses, I did the promotional announcements at Spartans in the very parkinglot behind what's now Audacy in JOCO. "Attention shoppers..." So I had lots of time practicing the schtick. It too was fun. I stayed in radio til it no longer was and I didnt' put down the board ops, I urged them to consider radio like I did...putting yourself thru college and not coming home with that Taco Grease smell. Thats when I changed my major from marketing/ accounting to broadcast journalism, and it served me well until I hit THAT income ceiling and had kids with future college plans. Broadcasting seemed pretty dead-end unless you wanted to change markets a lot since the industry's pretty fickle and had few career benefits then. High school kids did NOT like moving across the country just so daddy could be on TV.
Guess thats why you stayed in the KC market.,..couldn't find anybody to hire you for more money, because you lacked drive, or just couldn't take direction?
Radio's a great job for putting yourself thru school--better that fast food or mopping floors after class. But when youre a bored op, you aren't thinking bout getting married and having expensive wives and kids. Thats all I was saying. Radio bosses, and even TV ones have no respect for their talent. DOn't train them...if the ratings drop because of the market and the station's music decision, they don't fix the music, they fire the air staff! Adults look for stability and income matching their home responsibilities.
But there you are, ragging me for MY life's mistakes year after year. Sounds like you should take care of your own long-standing issues! Guess you didn't if you have to blow out other people's candles, thinking it will make yours shine brighter. Didn't you find radio studios a little claustrophobic after awhile? They're just soundproof cubicles, ya know! When I was telling board ops to go to school and find other skills, that was right when radio expanded corporate ownership and started automating. You aint seen nothin yet. If you were still in, you'd be replaced by what they call "AI".
I was a computer programmer after broadcasting and it paid well working in a smaller cubicle. I know a bit about AI because I learned to write code. And every company with lots of employees values their code writers...and they don't fire them because they need to retain that knowledge if they expect their software to grow with their companies. To my surprise after broadcasting, they actually PAY big money to school programmers in the latest language changes. Broadcasting rarely does that even now...they just bring consultants in to say 'shut up and move the music'. I liked some of radio except to make more money, I had to get up and ungodly in the middle of the night and be at work at 5. That's a life-fucker.