Re(2): to you know who Posted on January 28, 2026 at 05:05:03 AM by rman
Well you're opening up a little but it takes a very hateful and unhappy guy to fixate on it. Guess you didn't get along with your family so you stew too much alone. What do you know about 'enjoying' what you sold? You could have chosen anything to sell with yoru persuasive skills. Med equipment, business aircraft which you could have learned in Wichita easily. Radio time's only a couple steps up from door to door unless you enherited somebody's client list. I admit to knowing little abt media sales but news was great fun. Even the first jobs. I saw what was left of a kid who had a gross of M-80s in his pickup, threw one out the window and it landed in the pile in the back seat. Blew his El Camino into small parts for blocks. I interviwed RFK right before he went to California..in primaries, they'll talk to anybody. So did Carter, a very generous man with his time. I was still in college on my first job reporting and doing the 5pm news. Old timey small town radio, we carried NBC Monitor on Saturdays, and I bored opped a couple hours. I cant think of anything in sales more interesting than that kinda stuff. It didn't pay much but in those days it put me through school when tuition was only a little more than a hundred bucks a semester for 16 hours. I had an unusually deep voice and learning the news style was easy. I'd actually learned how to pitch commercials at the Spartan store in Mission working the service desk, doing PA announcements.
I was in acctg, marketing at that time which dad pushed me into, it sucked so I left town for Journalism school but the Army drafted me first. I did their communications shit by day and had an evening requestline show with American Forces Radio at night. 69 to 71 when the music was fabulous! So was the notoriety. My first job back in the world was at KAKE TV and Radio....payin me basically to learn skills with my deep voice. No I didn't rip and read like you imagined over and over. Well except at WHB but that was only because they plucked me out of Wichita and paid me well to first do afternoon drive with Dolan and then mornings with Phil Jay. Yeah Bob Mead was pissed they put me on mornings to rip and read and play straight man for Phil. But my first kid was born and we needed the money and I need the time at home to be daddy in the afternoon and night when my wife was working. I still got out of there tho because big time corporate radio was no fun when FM radio was cleaning AM's clock. But it was indoor work tho I got invited back to KLEO to be ND, we bought a house and lived there for abt a dozen years. Nice town to raise kids in, and learn how to do TV.
You've always liked to trash me for some reason, tho we never worked together. BTW, cubicle work isn't so bad and it paid even better that small market radio and TV. Put my kids thru college; I had no regrets abt the work at all. It was interesting enough I could retell it and people would watch my stories on TV. Better than sales, beause I hated accounting tho that did help me be a better reporter. What youre fixation is on your idea of what I did for a living made no sense, and still doesn't to me.
Do you have any interesting stories about selling time to share with us? If not, then just pipe down. you're just not that good a bully and I dont put up with your shit because you're just a mediocre writer at best. Sorry bud. But lying an deceiving people to sell shit for a living seems to have suited you pretty well. And paid well, specially when you don't move around much and pay realtors 6 percent commissions everytime you changed broadcast markets. That was another reason I got out of the media. Families don't like to have their lives distrupted. Broadcasting should be good for single people who dont put down many roots, I think but eventually most of us outgrow it. I did. Should have done it 5 years earlier but Computer programming in small companies was in deep expansion for every company with more than a couple dozen employees. That's not true of radio and TV and hasn't been for 40 years. Those poor guys are holding on tight hoping their properties dont get sold to yet another conglomerate. There just aren't very many companies in a market looking for media talent so ya have to look out of town for the next gig. Too disruptive when your family wants stability. We talked about it and agreed. I was just lucky I caught onto computer work in its early days and never had to look far for work ever again. Technology always did interest me and TV was makin a lot of changeds then with videotape, satellites and liveshots. All of us had fun.