Dan Ingram, My Radio Hero
I'm just back from a week in Las Vegas, and have lots of stories from the trip to share with you, but I awoke this morning to a bit of news that must come first. My radio hero, Dan Ingram, has died at age 83. Ingram was the greatest Top 40 radio personality I've ever...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Darryl Parks wonders if "Ohio" -- the devastating song Neil Young wrote (and recorded with David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash) after seeing four college students killed by National Guardsmen during a Vietnam War protest at Kent State University...
Why I’m Not Mourning Art Bell
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...
Defending Offense
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...
Big Mouths, Big Trouble
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...
My Final Show — Opening Remarks
Here are the opening remarks of my final radio show, with a few stories from my forty-year career on the air.
My Final Show — Closing Remarks
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.
Just One More Time
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...