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Moogvo
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« on: December 23, 2009, 07:17:36 PM »

Hi all.  My name is Tom.  I am the administrator here.  I look forward to building a great community with each and every one of you! I worked on the air for WAY too many years, even after being warned about the radio industry.  I left radio in 1998 to do voiceovers full time.  MUCH better! I do love the broadcast industry. . .  Just not enough to go back on the air!
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« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2010, 02:21:10 AM »

I was warned by a guy when I first tried to get into radio.   He said that I'd never make it because I said "fer" instead of "for" during an audition, I'd be married 3 or 4 times (it was 4), I'd never make any good money (mostly true), and that I just didn't have the voice for it.   I think his name was Simon Cowell.   That guy pissed me off enough to pursue my broadcasting career in spite of him.  :)
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« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2010, 11:22:36 AM »

I remember finally getting a gig at the local daytime AM beautiful music radio station as the night guy. . .  The first guy I met in the station was a guy named "Kevin McKee".  He certainly thought quite a bit of himself. . .  He did his OWN imaging for his shift. . .  Apparently the voice guy wasn't good enough for HIM.  LOL! In any case, after YEARS of shaking on radio station's doors, he was the FIRST one to drag me onto a studio and make me read.  I got the gig and the station went dark about 6 months later.

Thinking "Wow! That has to be the shortest career ANYONE has EVER had!", I wound up at Power 93 in Greenville, SC.  I did overnights and worked with a crack crew of . . .  mmm. . .  professionals?

The late Toddzilla, Bill Catcher (Currently NextMedia Myrtle Beach, SC), Christopher Goode, Dr.  Brad Collins and other guys (Which reminds me of a war story I will have to share. . . )

Anyway. . .  After getting fired from there, I went looking for another gig and was met by a PD at G105/Raleigh who told me I just didn't have the voice for radio. . .  Somehow, though, I managed to get the nickname "Johnny Big Voice" by one of my co-workers years later in New York.


Eh. . .  Go figure. . .

Similar to you, Val, I had a PD inform me loudly that there was no such thing as one hunnerd dollars. . .  That the letters were in the words because they wanted to be heard.  LOL!
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