Talking About Radio with John Leslie
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This radio promotion is so complicated, there is only one way to tell the story in its entirety. None of the original sound exists so now I tell this story in a 57 minute mini audio book style so that all of the twists and turns can be described in detail. It is chronicled in this podcast to be saved for all of history.
All of us in the radio industry have had great "on air" promotions from time to time,...
Any broadcasting job you can imagine, Doug Clark, known professionally as Jack Scott, has done it. From early radio and television, morning show host on both coasts, program management, general management and ownership, Doug is a thru broadcast professional.
He joins us on this edition of Talking About Radio to talk about his transition from banking to broadcasting and what it has meant to him. Speaking from Glover...
This podcast episode is Talking About Radio with, yours truly, John Leslie…with guest host Elizabeth Grattan.
I recently had the opportunity to interview Elizabeth on a previous episode about her career in the industry and we decided it might be interesting to flip the script and the result is an entertaining and insightful look into my very own journey.
Elizabeth is known all across the country for her outstanding im...
In honor of the memorial day weekend Z-morning Zoo special with Ross Brittain and Brian Wilson, we are re-running this entertaining episode of Talking About radio featuring the ever talented Brian Wilson.
It aired December 14, 2024 and if you missed it or would like to hear it again, I am pleased to air this entertaining episode of Talking About Radio with John Leslie.
All you have to do is listen to Elizabeth for five minutes to hear high quality that she puts in her voice tracking, imaging, voice overs and everything else that she says professionally.
She stumbled onto the moniker RadioElizabeth by accident and it not only stuck by has served her well in her profession. She is also a talented writer, producer and speaker.
Elizabeth has done voice work for some of the biggest nam...
A retrospective on the birth, life and end of radio stations, their formats and their personalities. The tears, the anger and the heartbreak not only in the station but from their audience as well. You'll hear actual audio of stations big and small who met their early end.
This is the most comprehensive report of its kind anywhere on the internet. It was six weeks in the making with over 200 hours of research...
In this anniversary special episode we have put together segments from 11 great episodes featuring some of the to names in the Radio Industry. It was impossible to include all 200, but we think you'l enjoy hearing interesting and amusing stories.
Thanks to everyone who has, in just two short years made Talking About Radio with John Leslie one of the to radio industry podcasts in the world.
When I first heard Don Clark, I said to my wife, "listen to this guy, he is really great." Turns out Don has been entertaining audiences and making them laugh all across the midwest, northeast and south. His humor is contagious and fun to listen too.
In this podcast, I believe Don Clark and I did more laughing than we did talking. After 30 years of spinning the hits and give'm the fits, Don is now hos...
Washington DC native Jeff Young began his radio career while in college in Miami. He worked his way up and up from early "free form" radio to distinguished positions with ABC radio news, the Z100 morning Zoo in New York as well as other radio positions in the Big Apple.
His news positions took his back to his native Washington, then got the job of a lifetime, rebuilding the radio systems in Kuwait. Jeff fou...
Jamie Grout was a master at doing what makes radio work the best. He was always live and he was always local. Fund raising, amazing charity work, service club membership and ear catching promotions. Currently working at legendary WHO in Des Moines and hosting a podcast, Jamie is still a busy broadcaster after 50 years of service. He is a great guest on Talking About Radio with John Leslie.
Triangle Broadcasting in Philadelphia was one of the nations largest media conglomerates back in the 50s, 60s and 70s. One of their radio television groups was in Binghamton, New York, where they initiated an experimental program to attract young men interested in broadcasting. They formed Explorer post 12 which was an arn if the Boy Scouts of America but dedicated strictly to those interest in Broadcasting.
A young ...
It takes a lot of practice and skill to be a radio traffic reporter, specially in a bustling city like the Big Apple. Matt Ward, who sometimes went by the name Tom Rivers worked for Shadow Traffic for 25 years on some of the biggest and best known stations in New York.
In this episode of Talking About Radio with John Leslie, Matt takes us into the Shadow Traffic operations area and explains how all those mounds of tra...
Jimmy Diele started his radio career like many of us. He worked at small suburban New York City radio stations on weekends running the religious tapes. At the same time, he was working for Robin Leach, host of "The lifestyles of the Rich and Famous."
Pretty soon Jimmy found himself working in the Big Apple at some of the top stations. WPLJ, WYNY Country Y-107 and more.
Today, he is ...
This is a remastered episode featuring the legendary DJ John Records Landecker who. appeared on Talking About Radio when it was in its infancy back in early 2023.
Many of you may not have heard it since it it buried in a haystack of 220 episodes of this podcast. But you don't want to miss this rare appearance of Landecker on an interview program. Even if you have heard it, it's worth listening t...
Entertainment giants Johnny Carson and Jack Benny became good friends over the years. Each appeared on the others programs, and many people recognize Jack Benny's comic mannerisms in Johnny Carson.
Steve Newvine, who spend many years in radio and television broadcasting broadcasting spent two years researching the relationship between the two and cronicled it in a book titled "Jack and Johnny."...
The topic of DJ shouts and DJ jingles came up recently and I asked my Facebook radio friends to send me their shouts and name jingles. I put them together in a six minute sampler that is fun to listen to, I think.
Give it a listen.
http://talkingaboutradio.buzzsprout.com
Her name was Michelle Haun when she joined my morning show as producer in 1990. It took only a few days for me to become enormously fond of this bright, effervescent young lady. She brought sunshine into my studio every single day and learned the trade at lightening speed.
When she wasn't grinding away to find show topics and guests for me, she was busy making me smile and laugh.
34 years late...
When Matt Cundill was told his radio job was dissolved, he took his skill in a different but similar direction. Matt is now owner of Sound Off Network. In addition to hosting a popular podcast titled "Sound Off", Matt is an experienced consultant to those who want to have a professional sounding podcast of their own.
He counsels businesses, corporations and individuals who don't have the expe...
Hosting my podcast "Talking About Radio" is typically me, John Leslie, interviewing other radio professional. In this case 25 year radio veteran and now podcast network executive Matt Cundill is interviewing me.
It was an honor to be a guest recently on his "Sound Off" podcast from Winnipeg, Manitoba. This is a rebroadcast of his podcast featuring "yours truly" as a guest.
Wether Brian Wilson is performing alone or teamed up with Ross Brittain he is a true radio legend. From the very mountain top of New York city, nationally syndicated shows or radio shows in major markets across the continent, Brian is part of radio history.
He is Talking About Radio with John Leslie. This is one episode that you don't want to pass by. He is as entertaining as ever.
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