I graduated from Trans American School of Broadcasting in September 1991 and went right to work at WRDB/WNFM in Reedsburg. I sent demo tapes and resumes to several stations in southern Wisconsin but most didn’t have openings. AM 1400 WRDB needed a weekend part timer but there was a chance to get more hours and…
One of the assignments in the TV section at Trans American School was our class teaming up to create a 10-15 minute movie. Kate Jackson had recently married the owner of Joe Hart’s bar in Madison and moved here. Our movie idea was to have an obsessive reporter sit outside the bar in hopes of…
My class in broadcasting school got confirmation of what we already suspected – a lot of radio announcers use fake names. Most of time it’s the last name, but I met a few announcers in my travels that ditched their entire name for something different. There were a few unwritten rules with names. Too many…
I found an article in my box of radio memories about the instability of Madison radio. I think I kept it because I was part of a radio staff housecleaning a couple months earlier. I graduated from Trans American School of Broadcasting in September 1991 and started working at WRDB/WNFM in Reedsburg. I stayed until…
