Broadcasting
Before I wanted to be a journalist, I wanted to be a DJ. How could I not? I'd grown up listening to New York City's 770 WABC at the height of the Top 40 era. Dan Ingram,
George Michael, Harry Harrison and a host of others made me want to nothing other than to spend long days spinning music and speaking into a microphone.
In 1983, I got my wish. An internship at WEOK/WPDH in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., led to a part-time job there. I spent a couple of months on the AM side of the station, coming in on
weekends to turn on the transmitter and load tapes of pre-recorded shows. But I always looked with longing through the studio glass at the FM side, WPDH, where the jocks were
playing Genesis, Yes, the Beatles and all the music we today call "classic" rock.
More to come ...