Good Morning

It's 5:17 AM. Monday through Friday I'm up at 4:00 so I can go in and put on my serious NPR-style frowny-serious radio news voice, but today, Sunday, I get to sleep in for an extra hour because I'm not due on the air til 7. I do the local hosting for Morning Edition Sunday. Essentially, I'm just there for 4 hours to push the buttons and make sure everything that's supposed to go on the radio actually does. Now and then, I open the mic and say "You're listening to WPSU State College... WPSB Kane, and WKVR Huntingdon... listener-supported Public Radio for central Pennsylvania."

I started my radio career back in 1972 -- one of my first jobs was the Sunday morning shift at WDBO radio in Orlando (The Great 58!) Sunday morning is considered an entry-level sort of job. Well, to stuff the whole career in a nutshell, I was a hot-rockin' Top 40 DJ in Orlando, Daytona Beach and Honolulu -- and believe me when I tell you that a 22-year-old recently-divorced hot-rockin' Top 40 DJ in Honolulu can have far more... uh... fun than is good for him.

I was the morning anchor of the Florida Network in the early '80s... I've done talk radio, covered Space Shuttle launches and landings, once, a news conference at the White House...

And now, I do the Sunday morning shift on a Public Radio station. I like it because it's quiet, I'm alone, (the TV guy's there, but he has his own buttons to push) I surf the Web, catch up on my reading... and have a few minutes for meditation in the green room.

If you want to tune in on all the excitement, you can listen on-line. Just click here: WPSU-FM and click on Listen Live. I'll be solemnly intoning from time to time until 11:00.