Copper


CHAM Session

Issue 102TRUE-LIFE RADIO TALES

CHAM, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. My next radio station move was a big one – to another country! A program director I had worked for at WAMS in Wilmington, Delaware was...

In and Out at WAMS and Getting WARM

Issue 101TRUE-LIFE RADIO TALES

Station Seven: WAMS-AM The seventh radio station in my career was back at WAMS in Wilmington, Delaware where I had been previously successful. What a homecoming. I loved the beautiful...

KRIZ-AM Phoenix, "Rockin' In the Valley of the ...

Issue 100TRUE-LIFE RADIO TALES

In 1973 Phoenix was hard for me to figure. Didn’t seem to be much there there. Soon after I arrived in town to start work at KRIZ (now KOY) I got...

Life at KQV Radio in the Seventies

Issue 99TRUE-LIFE RADIO TALES

Back in the 1970s Pittsburgh was a top ten radio market, i.e.; the Big Time. KQV AM was number two to the mighty KDKA the first radio station to be...

WAMS

Issue 97TRUE-LIFE RADIO TALES

Wilmington, Delaware. WAMS served Wilmington, but the studio was at the transmitter on Mt. Cuba outside beautiful Greenville, Delaware, maybe 20 miles from town. It was a neighborhood of mansions...

Station 3

Issue 96TRUE-LIFE RADIO TALES

WELK (no relation to Lawrence the champagne music maker) was another “daytimer” on 1010 AM. Its studios were neat and functional, and not at the transmitter, but in full view...

Second Verse, (Sorta) Same As the First

Issue 95TRUE-LIFE RADIO TALES

As senior year approached, I started sending out audition tapes to stations much larger than any which would have me—but my visits to WFIL had set my sights way too...

In The Beginning

Issue 94TRUE-LIFE RADIO TALES

Believe it or not, several people have encouraged me to write about my time in radio. Who cares about radio? Not even me, anymore. But I sure did then. As...