Broadcasting Pet Peeves
I hope you’ll add to this list. Some of these things are a little “inside” but some are recognizable to radio listeners who have no knowledge of what goes on behind the scenes. …
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Working
Throwback Thursday – Prime Time Television
It wasn’t the golden age of television, but it’s an age that no longer exists. CKNX-TV in Wingham used to create original programming and host its own newscasts and commercials. It was a “thing”. And when I worked there, from 1986-1990, there were many opportunities to be part of that thing. …
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Alice Lives Here
There are so many people doing so much good for others, and it’s one of the biggest advantages of my life and career that I get to meet so many of them. …
You Know You’re a Journalist When…
…you have a bunch of mugshots of wanted criminals on your computer! …
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Smart Young Women
Two younger broadcasters I work with recently made decisions that made me want to stand up and cheer for them. …
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Throwback Thursday: Scott Shannon, Still Tops
There aren’t too many people to look up to in broadcasting anymore. Thousands who thought Jian Ghomeshi was all that sure got a slap upside the head in the past year or so. And the business is less stable than ever. Even some of the well-liked, long running hosts find themselves at the wrong end of a pink slip. Take Jennifer Valentyne. She was let go from CITY-TV after 17 years simply because they found a cheaper way to do what she does. …
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Podcast Guest
One of the first people I met when I moved back to London was Derek’s friend Kevin Bulmer. Kevin is a former on-air guy in radio, a singer-songwriter, Dad to two great lads and a whole lot of other cool things. He also hired me to work at Delaware Speedway several summers ago. Now we also work in the same building. …
Judging a Book
One thing I’ve never been called, is a best-selling author! I have written four books and they’ve all had varying degrees of minor success. My most popular book, The Naked Truth, continues to sell a few dozen copies each month. Every author dreams of best-seller status, but a book marketer in Texas decided to expose the notion of what that means these days. …
Throwback Thursday – Orange Man
If you’re lucky enough to work at a good place, you develop a sort of short-hand with your colleagues based on your experiences. You might also get involved in some silly things, that make sense to you but look ridiculous to someone else. …
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I’ll Need a Printer Cozy
Now that hubby is a full-time voice talent/furniture-builder, he decided he needed an improved space in which to record voice-work. His desk area is fairly quiet, but if a horn honks or a truck makes a delivery, he has to stop everything and either redo what he’s been working on, or wait out the source of the sound. The solution: a vocal booth. Â …
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Having it Both Ways
If women want gender equality and respect, why do some of us still promote and attend Women’s Lifestyle Shows?  …
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Live-Edge Furniture -A New Lisa’s Piece
I remember the first time I saw a piece of live-edge furniture. It was heavily shellacked and not entirely my taste, but the bits of bark around the edge intrigued me. Even though someone went too heavy on the gloss, in my opinion, it still looked like nothing else I’d ever seen. Someone found the beauty in the rough, unfinished parts that told you about the tabletop’s roots – pun intended. Â …
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Throwback Thursday – The Extinction of Carts
Like music played on wax cylinders, records, 8-tracks, cassettes and CDs, audio for radio has gone through an evolution over the years. When I started my career, we still used reel-to-reel tapes and carts. Music, commercials and show segments were recorded onto carts. They look like 8-tracks but they’re not the same thing. …
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Getting to Know Mike
My on-air partner, Mike Stubbs, has long been the voice of the London Knights. He’s known far and wide as one of the nicest guys in broadcasting and after working with him for seven months now, I can vouch for that. …
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Throwback Thursday: Retirement, So Far
When the crew at Blackburn Radio/Free FM took me to lunch on my last day, one of the sales guys convinced our server that I was retiring! It’s been six months, and retirement’s been pretty good, so far. Â …
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Throwback Thursday – The Greatest Hits
Sometimes I get wistful about radio stations past. I miss the 680 News team, but they’re not even the same team anymore. People move on. Lives and careers change. …
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What’s Next
My journalist friend Dan, who teaches part-time at Western University, tells his students something very wise. He says, I can’t teach you how to use what’s next in journalism, because it hasn’t been invented yet. …
Throwback Thursday – My First Blackburn Job
Although it was (gulp) almost three decades ago that I worked at CKNX in Wingham, I’m happy to say that many of the people I knew best in those days are still my friends or, at least, we’re still in touch. And I’m married to one of them. …
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