My last official radio show way back on March 15, 2020, and I hadn't even been back in the radio station since then. That changed briefly on June 17 ( Read more... )

The last cued up obituary for my vaguely morbid collection is that of Cuzin Dave Wilson, aka David Newman. The official yahrzeit for my radio colleague was September 2, but since I was on the road then I'll drop it here ( Read more... )

It doesn't feel like twelve years, but it has indeed been that long since my radio colleague Stella passed away very unexpectedly at the age of 44, which is (checks notes) the same age I am today. She was the second in a string of four active and former WRUW staff members who passed away in a short period. The others were all much older and had ( Read more... )

In my recent fraternity history, I spent a lot of time on my first semester as a pledge and the overall pledge program and rightfully so given how much it impacted my life. I have barely ever touched on the radio training I did as an Assistant Programmer in the Spring 1998 semester, even with an entire tag of radio show history going back more than ( Read more... )

Part 2 of this four part series was originally posted on March 17, 2022. I once again removed the graphic showing the four basics of accountability as well as the code urging people to sign up for the Mentoring Circles program that this series came out of. Most of the rest of the post is unchanged. I redacted my team name, removed a reference to ( Read more... )

Eight years ago today, a friend of mine from the WRUW staff passed away. Dr. Bill was one of the longest tenured members of the staff. He had a self-granted doctorate based on his encyclopedic knowledge of jazz and R&B in particular, and surprisingly deep knowledge in many other genres despite his avowed disinterest in most of them. Bill was also ( Read more... )

In my many years of radio hosting, I gave away innumerable tickets to concerts and movies at locations throughout Cleveland. I myself haven't called any radio station but my own as an adult, but I did win a prize as a kid back home in North Dakota ( Read more... )

My friend and radio colleague Roger Weist passed away three years ago today. He had both his standard obituary and the one we wrote for him on the radio website.

First, his standard obit from the Plain Dealer.
One of the most beloved members of Cleveland's Irish community, passed away on Dec. 13, 2018. Roger's tireless efforts advocating for Irish ( Read more... )

In the last week or so there has been a lot of media coverage of "one year of the coronavirus pandemic", supported by many of my friends posting similar memories as Facebook shows a lot of concerned "on this day one year ago" items. I actually already got into this a bit with yesterday's post about it being a full year since I ate in a restaurant, ( Read more... )

The summer semester schedule began yesterday at my radio station, and for the first time since the summer semester of 2002, I am not on it.

The last week time I was on the air personally was Sunday, March 15. Later that week we stopped letting our programmers into the studios due to the pandemic. At that point, we went to our emergency backup ( Read more... )