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How do I feel about radio you ask?
Did I really start out caring about the radio? As every young kid growing up in the 90’s I really didn’t care all that much. Why listen to this? I don’t care about the news or weather reports. That stuff is for those grownups who have problems, I am just going to go and listen to my disc man and play on my Playstation without a care in the world.
So then what turned you to radio, surely it can’t have just been old age?
In all honesty, I couldn’t stand waking up to the beeping of an alarm clock and preferred to hear music in the morning to wake up to. The first day of doing this I realized that they don’t play music at the top of the hour. Therefore I was forced to wake up hearing about the weather and news while lying in bed waiting for a song. Boy that weather in the morning is helpful. Being sent to your room wasn’t so bad, all you had to do was turn the radio on.
Next came homework in high school. Boy is that stuff boring when you don’t have anything to listen to. Time to turn on the radio News at the top of the hour followed by sports updates and then into 20 minutes of commercial free classic rock, just like my parents would listen to. Wow did I feel grown up, there is no better feeling than feeling grown up without a responsibility in the world, and that’s what the radio would do.
How did you keep listening to the radio during the computer age?
Then a funny thing happened. I found myself on the computer so much that that my TV had turned into a giant radio with a picture that I was never watching.
Then came podcasts, radio programs being televised and even televised radio programs on the internet. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. I had to do this, or in some way be a part of this magnificent industry.
And that brings me to today. Enrolled in The Montreal Radio and Television School
Learning my craft to someday be ‘live’ at sporting events calling the action as I see it.
Jeremy Graham
