Legendary radio personality Casey Kasem died early yesterday at 82 of complications related to Parkinson’s. His last year was marked by ugly fights between his second wife, Jean, and his children from his first marriage. The tabloid details have been well documented, but shouldn’t obscure Casey’s place in the broadcasting pantheon. Here’s what I wrote […]
I have always loved great radio jingles. One of the highlights of my career was in 1986 when (after several years at rock stations that didn’t use them), I moved to WYNY/New York to do mornings, complete with custom jingles made by Jonathan Wolfert’s company, JAM. We’re still using jingles on my syndicated show, America […]
photo by Harry Naltchayan, The Washington Post — August 8, 1988 I got a call a few days ago from Washington Post columnist John Kelly with some questions about Cindy The Weather Dog, who became famous on my morning radio shows in DC in the 1980s and 1990s. I filled him in on my memory […]
The Hollywood Reporter has a big story about the battle between Casey Kasem’s children and his wife, Jean, over visitation rights and who gets to make medical decisions for the radio legend, who is suffering from Parkinson’s Disease. The piece also recaps Casey’s career in-depth, from his earliest days in Detroit to the height of […]
A couple of weeks ago, I praised Joe Cipriano’s book, “Living On Air,” in which he tells stories of rising from a small-town radio DJ to one of the top voices in Hollywood, doing promos for all the major networks, awards shows, and game shows. Today, I talked about it with Joe on my America […]
Last week, car makers and broadcasters and other audio providers met in Detroit for the DASH conference to talk about connected cars. One of the organizers was radio consultant Fred Jacobs, whose company also makes apps for stations to stream their audio. He joined me on America Weekend to explain how the hardware in the […]