Just retired after 50 years as an American broadcaster, the last 32 years with WIRK-fm in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Spent 25 years on the air as a dj, then 25 years as production director at WIRK-FM.
Did radio spots for thousands of South Florida clients over the years....including writing and production. Bar spots, truck pulls, Sebring 12-hour race spots, plus quite a few soft-sell and medium-sell spots for various clients.
Former Country Music Association DJ winner for small markets (1978 as Terry Slane at WGTO-am, at that time in Cypress Gardens, Fla.
Started at a 5,000 watt regional station in Illinois, also worked in Monterey Bay, Calif....Honolulu, Hawaii....Cypress Gardens, fla...and finally at WIRK here in West Palm Beach.
Engineering grad from DeVry Technical Institute, Chicago, 1964. OJT as dj, md, pd for 50 years after that.
I use an Oktava MK319 microphone routed thru a Symetrix mic processor, then into a Henry Matchbox HD amp, feeding into a Dell computer with 2 Terabytes of space. Sounds really nice.
Been writing and producing radio spots the entire 50 years as a broadcaster.
Interpolating back to 1964, and counting WIRK'S heyday when they billed $15-$20 million a year, I've personally handled over $250-million in radio spots.