The debate about analytics vs. old school baseball has caused me the rethink some of the things in “FM, the Rise and Fall of Rock Radio”, or at least understand the other side a little better. The old WNEW-FM jocks,(Scottso, Alison, Fornatale, Elsas, me,...
The Mets had just won the 1969 World Series. All of New York was enraptured by this rags to riches story and every player who contributed was accorded legend status. So imagine my thrill when, in our maiden season of WLIR as the first suburban FM progressive station,...
I had a wonderful long conversation with Dennis Elsas last night, reminiscing about WNEW-FM, which hit the airwaves for the first time as a progressive (underground, meaningful music, free form, call it what you will) radio station fifty years ago tonight. I wrote a...
Spontaneity is overrated. Greats like Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan are legendary for eschewing multiple efforts designed to hone the original performance. Orson Welles once responded to a producer, “the proper reading is the one I’m giving you.” There...
The response to my Scott Muni/Glen Campbell piece has been incredible. It has been shared and ‘liked’ exponentially more than anything I’ve written to date. The point of the piece has riled some of those radio know-it-alls who populate message...
An iconic musician dies. Radio silence. A legendary disc jockey defies his program director and devotes his entire program to the man’s music. The PD lasts a few more months and is quickly forgotten. The jock remains a radio fixture until shortly before his own...
