I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.
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I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.
I went into radio in 1965 when I got a license for CJOR 600 AM. It was my second business.
Doing radio commercials was how I was really able to leave my day job.
I decided to try radio as a source of livelihood because I like to eat regularly.
I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose.
I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.
I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.
It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning of my time in radio, I had pretty non-traditional tasks.
I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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