It was Tuesday, May 3, 1988. A pleasant spring day.<\/p>\n
My attempts to break back into talk radio – or news, or sports, or pretty much any kind of radio at all – had fallen to a desultory hour or two of calling to check up on old contacts, once every week or two.<\/p>\n
Oh, I was still nominally in play, sort of. Kind of. Stations in New Bedford and Fall River Massachussets, Hammond Indiana, Sarasota Florida, Santa Rosa California and Albuquerque New Mexico all liked my tape, and told me to stay in touch. So I did.<\/p>\n
And did.<\/p>\n
And did.<\/p>\n
And I’d occasionally dig back through the SRDS directory – which, after a year of very heavy use, was getting pretty beaten-up – and try to see if anything had changed at any other stations.<\/p>\n
Late the previous week, I’d called a station I’d tried once the previous year – a talk station in Orlando, Florida. I found there was a new program director. I got through to him. He was a jovial-sounding guy who’d been there maybe three months. We clicked on the phone. I’d sent him a tape.<\/p>\n
He’d gotten it.<\/p>\n
“Mitch”, he said, in a voice that sounded like his mouth was always full of potato chips, “I love <\/em>your tape. I have an idea. I can’t go into it right<\/em> now, but gimme a call back at the end of the week, and let’s talk”.<\/p>\n My heart jumped. I wrote it down on my calendar. Friday. Call Charlie in Orlando<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was Tuesday, May 3, 1988. A pleasant spring day. My attempts to break back into talk radio – or news, or sports, or pretty much any kind of radio at all – had fallen to a desultory hour or two of calling to check up on old contacts, once every week or two. Oh, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twenty-years-ago-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}