It was a Saturday June 8, 1974. I had just gone on the air at radio station KXXO in Tulsa. My shift started just before six PM. The news services teletypes were clicking and dinging . Weather was the big news at the moment. So my shift started out just reading weather bulletins. The fullContinue reading “Shakey’s pizza went down”
Category Archives: Radio
Overnight listening
Do I have a hobby? If you want to call it that. My hobby goes way back long before the internet. Long long before Apps that play a gazillion radio stations on my iPhone around the world. Long before ‘Tune-in Radio.’ When we had moved from Hawaii in 1974 back to the mainland it hasContinue reading “Overnight listening”
Turn me on, Phil
They called it a Philco cathedral radio. A wooden table top model about two feet tall with scrolling cut outs over the five-inch speaker and it weighed about 25-pounds. It was called such because of its arching top something like a church cathedral. Below was an analog dial pointing from 550 kilohertz’s to 1550Continue reading “Turn me on, Phil”
Some of the attractions at the Super Bowl.
posted by Chuck Ayers Heard on the radio from Chicago. A twenty-something young woman was looking for a donor to give her two tickets to the Super Bowl which at the time was taking place in Atlanta a few years back. In return for free advertising. Advertising to be ‘airbrushed’ on the young lady’sContinue reading “Some of the attractions at the Super Bowl.”
Winning is not my game.
I am one of those guys who often says, I have never won anything. And to demonstrate this sorrowful fact, and having seen many a Saturday noon matinee way back when as a grade schooler, dropping my theater ticket stub into a drawing basket and never ever won anything. Zip. Zero. Then later I filledContinue reading “Winning is not my game.”
Listening to midnight radio.
All from my little AM radio. Back in 1951 and before our first TV and I Love Lucy, I was a frequent radio listener. We were living in Los Angeles and we had a Sears AM radio/record player console in our tiny Livingroom. A big wooden mahogany box that stood up and about the sameContinue reading “Listening to midnight radio.”
Book Report: I thought they fired him.
Book Report After he left the Saturday evening public radio show under a fog of impropriety, Garrison Kiellor really never went away. Still writing his brand of small town prairie humor and taking his show on the road. We noticed his coming appearance on the Brady theater in Tulsa a year or so ago. NeverContinue reading “Book Report: I thought they fired him.”
Opening the curtains of theater of the mind.
Radio comes full circle. I must had been about four-years-old when I became aware of radio. Radio mostly broadcast live from New York, Chicago, and from my hometown of Los Angeles or Hollywood. And back then it was not referred to as “Old-time radio.” Or as some call it today, ‘OTR.’ Some programs were broadcastContinue reading “Opening the curtains of theater of the mind.”
So here I was listening to the horrible news while eating my Cheerios.
I was sitting at the kitchen table while mindlessly eating breakfast when listening to Morning Edition early one September day. Bob Edwards had just introduced Susan Standberg with an NPR piece she had produced. She started talking but suddenly was faded down and Bob Edwards came back on the air and said it seems thatContinue reading “So here I was listening to the horrible news while eating my Cheerios.”
A man who gave the Dodgers a voice.
Now try to follow with me on this. Back in about 1958 something possessed my parents to buy a big blond stereo from Sears and put it in the Livingroom. A blond wood stereo with an array of different size speakers that a 14-year-old teen boy only could wish for. Previous we had only aContinue reading “A man who gave the Dodgers a voice.”
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