After his death this weekend, Art Bell, whose “Coast To Coast AM” show owned overnight radio for a couple of decades on hundreds of stations, is being mourned by many in the radio industry. I am not one of them. I believe Bell contributed to the dumbing-down of America by regularly embracing pseudoscience, the paranormal, claims […]
Yesterday, I wrote a piece about the blowback felt by two right-wing media personalities after their comments caused activists to start a boycott of the businesses that advertised on their programs. What I neglected to say is that there has to be a line where management understands that when you have opinionated hosts ad-libbing their […]
In the last week, a couple of conservative loudmouths have gotten some backlash after making comments about David Hogg, one of the survivors of the Parkland high school shooting who has become an outspoken advocate for gun law reform. First it was Fox News Channel host Laura Ingraham who mocked Hogg for “whining” about not […]
Here are the opening remarks of my final radio show, with a few stories from my forty-year career on the air.
Here are the closing remarks from my final radio show, with a few more stories to tell before ending my forty year career on the air.
After 40 years in commercial radio, I’m going to do my last show this Friday, February 9th. I’ve known this day was coming for several months, as KTRS has hired someone else to do its 3-6pm show every weekday beginning next week. I was asked if I wanted the job, but I have no interest […]