

Listen to the sounds of the 30th Street Station in Philadelphia:

Day two of planning and production meetings at ESPN. Dawn and I both lived Continue reading
Remember Hanson’s Mmmmmm-Bop hit? Dan Michaels had 3 hours to quickly put together a community video when the band came to Pittsburgh to promote their new song “Thinking ’bout Somethin’”. Hanson was up for it and graciously played it live a few times while they captured it on little flip cams. Dan wanted to use ONLY Pittsburgh listeners and a Pittsburgh location. THE LISTENERS MADE THE VIDEO. Click through after the break and hear how he did the impossible with no budget, no pro’s, using only little flip cams and local listeners…all in a total of 3 hours. Fun. And the band was nice to work with. Continue reading

Can’t get enough. Here’s ten things we found in town this past weekend. From the HUGE, to the very HIGH. Continue reading
Tony Rhein on what he uses to produce radio at KNBR San Francisco, about tech, and baseball. At Pier 39 along the Embarcadero.
I met up with Phil Tower in NYC and learned what he’s working on with the Allen Hunt Show. Phil’s a first class guy who I’ve known forever. He programmed WOOD-AM for about a thousand years. [Update-Phil has returned to program WOOD AM-FM]
How can these possibly be 31 years old? I found them at the radio station I worked at back in the day, on reel-to-reel. Both are 60 second radio commercials produced by someone for two mega albums. Each has just music and no announce for the last 8 seconds or so, so the live DJ could say “Available at Sam Goody’s now for just $7.99 for the album, or $8.99 for the 8-tack tape or cassette.” I still think 1990 was just a few years ago, and that’s 20 years in the past. These are 31 years!
