1) Where did your thirst for radio start? My high school guidance counselor suggested that I seek a career in broadcast journalism. However, I was still undecided when I entered Stillman College. Based on placement test scores, it was suggested that I study computer ...

BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: Original KOKY/1978 KWTD, KHLT (Adult Top 40), WHRK-WDIA/Memphis WOWI-WBSK/Norfolk-Va. Beach, KIPR/Little Rock, KSSN-KMVK(Hot Country), WBLX-WDLT/Mobile, AB KOKY/2000-present 1) How about a radio memory that still makes you laugh? As a ...

BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: I began my radio career while attending Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama where I received a Communications degree in 1985. Upon graduation, I moved to Birmingham, Alabama and began working at WJLD AM and later WATV AM. After the sale ...

BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: Music industry executive. 1) Was breaking into the music industry hard to do? I started my music career being a club promotor when I was at UCLA. A gentleman by the name of Allen Carroll was the West Coast Regional for MCA Records. I asked ...

1) How did you wind-up teaching, being an assistant coach and do music promotion? Upon leaving the Navy in 1968, I went back to college. A week before classes started, a friend told me about a program that President Johnson had instituted called, "Veterans In Public ...

1) How did you get into radio? I guess if radio didn't find me, I would have been a meteorologist. I love weather; it's interesting and can't be controlled. I watch the Weather Channel for hours. 2) Why radio? In 1994 for my son's birthday, I decided to call the local ...

BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: After college, I joined the staff of WVON in Chicago as a salesman. I was hired by WGCI in 1980 and the following year became Sales Manager. A year later I was promoted to VP/Station Manager. In 1986, I went to Detroit and took over the leadership ...

BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: Successful radio career spanning over three decades from the Midwest to the West Coast to the South and beyond, primarily in the top-10 markets of the country. 1) Would you share your goals? Maintaining a relevant presence in a fast-changing, ...

1) Why radio? The radio blessings started my junior year at Tougaloo College. I was one of the on-campus deejays and during parties, I would do a nice slow jam set. I started making slow jam mixtapes and passing them out around the school. It got to the point to where my ...