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April 10, 2018
10 Questions with ... Bomani Jones1. You didn't start out on a media-centric track, at least not in college or grad school... or did you? What led an economist to, first, writing about music and sports, and then into radio and TV? Was doing radio and TV always the plan, or did that come about a different way?
This was never a plan. My senior year of college, I got the bright idea I'd become a music critic. And I did do that eventually, but in 2000, I was grossly misinformed on how much money I could make doing that. I wasn't in a position to pay any bills in full, and I realized that three months after college graduation when I was stood up by a magazine owner I thought would give me enough work to live. That led to me, on two weeks notice, accepting a fellowship at Claremont Graduate University that fall, a couple of thousand miles from home. The plan from there was to become some sort of public intellectual. But I didn't even consider sportswriting until 2004, when Ralph Wiley walked me up to the editors at Page 2 at ESPN.com about doing one piece. I kept that going and it led to what I've been doing.
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April 3, 2018
10 Questions with ... Brad Carson
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: (Brad Weiss)1994-1997: WONC (North Central College)/Naperville, IL., WSMI-AM-FM/Litchfield, Illinois 1996: Intern at KYKY (Y98)/St. Louis (Brad Kelly) 1998-2000: KMXB and KMZQ/Las Vegas, NV (Brad Carson) 2000-2004: WKOE-FM and WIXM/Atlantic ...
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March 13, 2018
10 Questions with ... Mary Walter
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: I started my career at New Jersey 101.5 hosting a relationship show in the evening. After that, I landed at WCTC as Mary In The Morning. That show was a politics and local news show based in Somerset, NJ. I left WCTC to go back to New Jersey ...
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March 6, 2018
10 Questions with ... James Rapien
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: I host a daily show on ESPN 1530 and various weekend shifts on 700 WLW. I also produce and hosts two podcasts: Locked on Bengals and Locked on Reds. I also write for multiple websites and maintain a blog for iHeartmedia. 1. What drew you ...
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February 13, 2018
10 Questions with ... Johnny Angel Wendell
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: Had never listened to talk radio before being hired at KFI in 2002 which explains the unorthodox style for the last 15 1/2 years. Been on WRKO, KERN, KMJ, KIFR (Boston, Bakersfield, Fresno, San Francisco), Air America, Fox Network, Sirius XM as ...
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January 30, 2018
10 Questions with ... Eric Johnson
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: Radio’s been in my blood after seeing a remote broadcast when I was 12 in 1974. With the money I made from my paper route I would buy sound equipment and set up a bedroom radio station. Got my FCC license at 16 and went on the air at WRDR in ...
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January 16, 2018
10 Questions with ... Brett Holcomb
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: I began my career at 91.5 WDBK Blackwood, NJ in 1997 as a DJ and then became Program Director. In 2000, I worked at WRTI-FM as a sports/news reporter, and did overnights playing jazz. Also in 2000, I started at SportsRadio 610 WIP-AM (now ...
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November 14, 2017
10 Questions with ... Ryan Lennox
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: I have been fascinated by music and sports ever since I could remember. I started my mobile disc jockey service when I was 15. I was DJ-ing weddings and realized I could do more. I attended and graduated from the Connecticut School of ...
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November 7, 2017
10 Questions with ... Jonathan Hood
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: Jonathan Hood has worked in broadcasting since 1991. For the last decade, Hood has hosted the "Jonathan Hood Show" on ESPN Chicago. He expanded his sports talk to a worldwide audience with the ESPN Network as one of the hosts of the "Dickerson ...
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October 17, 2017
10 Questions with ... Nate Shelman
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: Inspired in Windsor, Canada, interned then hired in Cleveland, OH, made to work in News/Talk because I can’t shut up. Cleveland (5 formats / 5 stations) -> Nashville (2 formats / 2 stations) -> Birmingham WERC -> Fill in for San Antonio, ...
