The screen captures at the end of this post are from a video filmed at 94.1 FM WJJO in May, 1997. A friend’s daughter needed to interview someone about their job and decided to film me rather than simply writing down my answers. I talked a lot about the music format. A month earlier WJJO…
My Sunday evening was originally 5:00-10:00 pm and then I’d play Robert Goulet singing the Star Spangled Banner. Then I’d power off the station until the next morning – the only overnight that wasn’t covered. Later we had automated overnight programming so I worked 5:00-midnight and the station stayed on. I usually played a couple…
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…
So I recently found out that I’ve officially lost the rights to my name. Well, actually it was a business name from my past, that started out as a nickname. First, let me tell you about how I wound up with the nickname Zany Z and then I’ll get to how it became the name…
Chris Zantow 