Radio

I wish I would have brought some of the desert heat back with me, but it's good to be back! After eight long months of not being on the air due to a military deployment to Afghanistan, I am excited to say that I will be back on the air Monday (Nov 17)...

You can't avoid em, you're bound to see or hear em everyday: Commercials. Some of them are good and effective, some of them are bad and just plain wrong.  I'm sure you heard back a couple of months ago about the really bad local commercial here in Missouri.

Dick Clark called it "the National Anthem of Rock 'n' Roll.”

Radio legend Casey Kasem is missing.

Here's something that came up as a topic of conversation around the radio station. How do you prefer to program the preset buttons on your car radio? Do you rank them by station? Favorite station first, then second-favorite (and so on), or do you set the buttons in numerical order? If you're a number person, do you go highest to lowest, or lowest to highest? Or are you one of those people that cou

What exactly is this guy doing working at McDonald's?

Kidd Kraddick, host of the popular, nationally-aired morning show Kidd Kraddick in the Morning, has died in New Orleans.

In the late summer of 1986, my phone rang, and a voice on the other in said, "Hi Denny, my name is Herb Brandes, and I want you to come to work for my radio station."  And so began my 27-year love affair with Sedalia.

My first program director was a bonehead, and how he ever got into radio as a PD is beyond me.  New music in those days would come in weekly on a large reel, as in reel-to-reel, and you would get 15 to 20 songs per week. The PD would listen to them, decide what to play and tell us to record them off on carts.  Carts were kind of like 8-tracks, for those of you who remember those. However, they wer

Every now and then I catch myself talking to the girls in the sales office about old time radio, and you can see the blank look in their faces when I speak of things like splicing blocks or back timing, cart machines, que burn on records.  Oh, man I miss those days.  Julie said I should write blog posts about those days because they find them interesting, so if we get response out of this I will.