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Ken Carson
OM/PD
Station:
WCOO 105-5 The BridgeMarket:
Charleston, SCCompany:
LM CommunicationsBorn:
Arlington, VARaised:
By a pack of wolves
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April 9, 2018
10 Questions with ... Ken CarsonBRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS:
- WOVV/Ft.Pierce, FL (1975)
- WHNN/Saginaw, MI
- KHTZ/Reno
- WHJY/Providence, RI
- WPHD/Buffalo
- WHTQ/Orlando
- WROQ/Greenville, SC
- WCOO/WYBB/ Charleston, SC
- KKLZ/KSTJ/Las Vegas
- Cox Radio/Birmingham, Houston
- Citadel/Harrisburg, PA
- Saga/Asheville, NC
- Midwest Family/Springfield, IL
- WCOO-WYBB/Charleston, SC (2018)
1. How did you become interested in radio?
When I was 11, my den mother in scouts (who was the wife of industry legend Paul Christy) took us to the radio station in Washington, D.C. where Paul was working, and it was like opening a magic door. At the age of 15, my parents retired to Port St. Lucie, FL and the local radio station out of Ft. Pierce (WOVV) was broadcasting a part-time opening for a high school junior or senior. I applied and landed the job. As a teenager on the air at a 100k-watt station. I wasn't what you'd call focused until I met, and became a student of, Dave Brewer. Dave straightened me out and helped me focus on my skill-set. That's when I realized, this is it!
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10 Questions with ... Brew Michaels
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March 19, 2018
10 Questions with ... Mike Popadines
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: Graduated from Kutztown Univ. of Pennsylvania with a BA in Professional Writing in 2010, where I spent four awesome years at the college station (88.3 FM KUR) as Pres./Promotions Dir. Started out as a board operator for WRXP/New York in 2011, and ...
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March 5, 2018
10 Questions with ... Noah Sherwood
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: After a wasted youth, started getting wasted as an adult at these locations: KTXY-KCMQ/Columbia, MO; KSPW/Springfield, MO; WBZZ/Pittsburgh; WIZM/La Crosse, WI; WWQM/Madison, WI; and now WWCT/Peoria 1. How did you become interested in radio? ...
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February 26, 2018
10 Questions with ... Casey Keating
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: I started my radio career as a disc jockey at KYME while in high school in Boise, and worked in Salt Lake City at KRSP and then KPLZ/Seattle and WLS/Chicago. I was PD at KPLZ (STAR 101.5)/Seattle (twice), WHYI (Y-100)/Miami, KZQZ (Z95.7)/San ...
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February 12, 2018
10 Questions with ... Sky Daniels
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February 5, 2018
10 Questions with ... Garrett Hart
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January 29, 2018
10 Questions with ... Amy Miller
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January 22, 2018
10 Questions with ... Ken Bass & Deb Courson
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: Ken: I was a theatre major in college and played in a few bands during and afterwards (I had a minor in music, specifically percussion.) Went into radio in 1978 working part-time overnights (back where everybody started in those days) at ...
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January 15, 2018
10 Questions with ... Corny O'Connell
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