the radio merry-go-round game

Off we go.......on the road to radio fame(?)

... so...get your road maps ready....

I’m gonna tease you with the places  and radio/tv stations where I’ve worked....

Back to Las Vegas around 1958...after the Jack Daniels drinking with Nick Clooney (BG before George) way into the nights in the slums of Beverly Hills.

You might remember Mac Richmond who owned the Vegas station (which he illegally shut down without telling the FCC) owned two other stations...WPGC AM/FM in Washington DC and WMEX AM in Boston...a sensational money making outlet that cornered the rock & roll audience in that great city.  Can you say Arnie “woo woo” Ginsburg?  Yep he was there. 

Mac ask me if I’d like to work in DC and I said sure...so here we go in true radio job fashion.....check your map:

         note:  these are all local stations listed...my national show came later

 1958-59  Washington DC  WPGC am/fm...jock

1959       Baltimore WCBM...jock

1960-61  Chicago  WJJD...PD & jock
 1962-63  Boston WMEX...News

1964-65  Chicago WNUS (all news)

  1966     Vietnam (hometowners)

                  Vietnam (first ever daily show from a war zone)

1966     Kansas City KMBC...talk

1967     St.Louis WIL...talk

1967     Milwaukee WOKY...talk
1967-68  Rockford, Ill WREX-TV news anchor

1968     Democratic Nominee for Congress 13th district

1969     Chicago NBC News writer/producer tv & radio.
1969-70  Saigon NBC News correspondent

1972     Candidate Illinois Senate
1971-72  Milwaukee WRIT am/fm...talk

1973     New Orleans WGSO...talk

1973     Miami WNWS...talk

1974     Miami WIOD...talk
1975-76  Tampa WDAE...talk

brief stints/fill in    WERE Cleveland...talk

                                    KSDO San Diego...talk

                                    WMCA New York...talk

1978      Panama City, Fl TV news anchor

1979      Miami WNWS.....talk

    Dizzy yet? 

                I am just writing this now...so let’s wrap this up:

1980-85  Philadelphia  WWDB (FM)  Ops and talk host

      1985  Phoenix  KFYI...talk

1987-89  Miami WINZ...talk

1990-91   Miami WIOD...talk

That's it for local.  National comes in 92.

Now...some thoughts on all these great (or not so great ) cities. By the way...I DID move around a lot...but some stations were a return.

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