Handling just about everything else, other than being on-the-air...
I'm what happens when you mix a maniacal love for music, an
insatiable curiosity for technology and some entrepreneurial
determination. After working with broadcasting and new media for the
past 14 years, it's safe to say that if it involves music, radio,
technology or the Internet, I've had or plan to have my hands in it.
My love of music goes way back. Technology, too. As a child, I used
to rip electronic things apart just to see if I could put them back
together again. Sometimes I could. Sometimes I couldn't, much to my
parent's dismay. At the age of 8, I read the owner's manual to the
VCR for fun and taught my parents how to use it (Betamax, thank you
-- and they still can't figure out how to program it). When I was 12,
instead of a TV in my bedroom or Nintendo, I requested a bigger
stereo.
The addiction to 97X started in high school. Dayton, Ohio,
didn't offer much in the way of good music (or cultural enrichment
for that matter), so one day I climbed onto my parent's roof, pointed
their unused TV antenna towards Oxford, tuned the dial to a staticky
97.7 FM and I was hooked.
Putting together our live broadcasts from SXSW in Austin, TX, last year was pretty damn cool.
Dandy Warhols, Bowery Ballroom, NYC, 2003
Position:
General Manager
Time At Station:
Since 1992
Hometown:
Dayton-mf'n-OH
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