Let Us Now Praise Radio Women Time to recognize some great talents I have worked with over the years. The Radio business has historically been male-dominated, so the women who have made it onto the air--and have flourished there--have been, and still are, some prime examples of fierce determination and TALENT. Here are a few standouts. Kelly Boom. I worked with her in Phoenix from 1989-1990. Early on, she decided that her title was News Goddess and demanded that Bob Harrison and I treat her as such. Kelly is as fast as lightning and as funny as diarrhea in a wetsuit. You cannot get ahead of her; shes always got a one-liner ready and it will top you! (If anybody knows where she is, please message me.) Becky Rogers, sometime in the early 90s at KEZQ in Little Rock. Still waters run deep was invented for her! Becky is as nice and gentle and agreeable as you could possibly imagine, but do not do her an Injustice. You will find that she is made of Titanium. From her, I learned a great deal about working with a partner on-air and I am still using some of that knowledge every morning. I wish our time could have been longer. Tracey (Carrington) Prather, a couple years later at Signal Media. She was doing a morning talk show on 1010 AM, where the calls were completely unscreened. That meant that every nutcase in the Cosmic Woodpile was going to call in and go off about Bill Clinton, Fabian Socialism and Black Helicopters. How she handled them without jumping through the phone and tearing their lungs out is a thing of wonder to this day! Tessa Hall, in the early 2000s at the Evil Empire in Little Rock. A thoroughly Dangerous Woman who once attended a mass staff meeting in a gorilla suit! (I bow down in the face of such colossal nerve!) Knowing the perils full well, she continues to work for the EE in Washingtoon DC and probably dares that company on an hourly basis to call her out. Jennifer Bailey, Woman Of Normal Height and 10AM-2PM on our affiliated station, Hot 96.7. Also very dangerous and never unarmed in any exchange of wit. I have tried to trade puns with her and have come away bloodied and stupid(er) at least half the time. How can it be that a grown woman goes through life doing exactly as she pleases?!?! Time grows short, so thats it for now. Maybe sometime I will tell you about one more Dangerous Radio Woman that I know, with whom I get to do the best Radio of my life every morning! Peace, Love and Cornbread, dbt
Posted on: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 08:40:46 +0000
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