Talking About Radio with John Leslie
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We all have great stories to tell. If I ever write a book here are two of the stories that will be in it. Listen now to 22 minutes of radio mayhem. One when I was brand new to the business and the other when I was near the peak of my career.
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CBS Radio News is no more! It ended abruptly for 700 affiliates in May of 2026. CBS Radio Correspondent Peter King ends a 30 year association with the 99 year old institution of CBS Radio News.
Amonng reporting and anchoring duties, Peter was the space reporter for the network for 3 decades.
Peter joins host John Lelsie in this episode of Talking About Radio to talk about his remarkable Network radio career.
You c...
Five words! That’s all it took for the stuff to hit the fan and collapse one of the biggest media promotional agreements in modern history. And, I was the one poor soul who inadvertently short circuited the whole mega deal. Here is an 18 minute podcast with all of the gruesome details.
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The brightest promotional ideas. The best execution. The local, national and international media attention. It's all part of this amazing morning show barrage of spotlight promotions in one of Mid America's largest markets. How did it all work? What was the payoff.
Who was left standing when the smoke cleared?
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I was "on the air" at WFBL in Syracuse in 1976 when Stoner Broadcasting System hired me to host the morning show on their flagship station in Des Moines, Great Country KSO.
I arrived one week before the fall sweeps began. The show went fom a 9 share to a 27 share in that book. Here is the continuation of my audio commentary on I managed to get at keep high morning show numbers year after year.
I had never worked with such a talented staff. The station was filled with magic when our new team of talent arrived in 1974.
This is a continuation of my audio book memoirs on how I was able to muster double digit ratings year after year for nearly 5 decade.
My year at WFBL in Syracuse introduced me to a stable of the nations top talent. What I learned from them has stayed with me til this day 51 years later.
A pr...
Episode one is a 34 minute look at my very earliest days as a morning show host. My friends and family have encouraged me for years to write a
book about my morning show adventures. I would rather do it in the form that I know best, an audiobook as a podcast. There will be six episodes in the series
This is the first one and it dates back to the early 70s in Binghamton, New York. I really didn’t want to d...
There was plenty of opportunity to find myself in awkward, creepy and sometimes life threatening situations during my decade of being a foreign correspondent for Stoner Broadcasting System. Bizarre events seemed to be my constant companion while on my assignment behind the iron curtain in the former USSR. This is part two of my adventures in Siberia and Armenia. You will enjoy this 34 minute narrative of my life ...
Being a foreign correspondent on the other side of the world brings with it excitement, danger and intrigue, specially if you had never done it before. This is 20 minute episode is part one of a multi part special edition of Talking About Radio with John Leslie. This assignment took me as far away from home as one can possibly get.
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For the first time, the entire story of this historic radio broadcast event is told in Audio Book fashion. Production of this epic retrospective required 39 separate creative sessions, 39 separate editing sessions, 39 separate rehearsal sessions, 45 separate recording sessions and 39 separate productions sessions.
No other radio broadcaster on the planet owns this story. It is one of a kind.
This special edition po...
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 tim...
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 Glov...
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 ...
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.
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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 n...
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 resear...
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 h...
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 f...
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.
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