40 years sounds like a very long time, but I gotta tell you this: I'm as good a journalist as I've ever been. My health is excellent (I left behind four months worth of sick time when I left APT) and I'm a long way from retiring. I've been blessed to work these past four decades in a field I love, and I'm very much ready, willing, and able to begin my next chapter.
Apr 30, 2009
Happy Anniversary to me.
Today is not the kind of anniversary anybody but me will care about, but it was 40 years ago today that I made my first broadcast. It was on WBAB-AM Radio in Babylon, New York, a "graveyard shift" from Midnight till 6:00am on a weekend. That's about the deadest air shift there is. The station's signal at night was so limited that my best friends in Queens drove further out onto Long Island to get close enough to hear me, and even then they had to get out of the car and hold a portable radio up in the air! I'm not really a pack rat, but I somehow managed to hold onto the little "log" I started that first night of my time on-air. That's it below. The "Happening Sound" indeed. (-:
A few years ago I came across another veteran of WBAB Radio here in Alabama...Bill Canary, the BCA/GOP heavy who's wife, U.S. Attorney Leura Canary, was in the middle of the Siegelman prosecution. Bill worked at the station not too long after me. Small world! I ran into Bill on election day (the primary last year, I think) and he was nice enough to say he genuinely missed "For The Record".
40 years sounds like a very long time, but I gotta tell you this: I'm as good a journalist as I've ever been. My health is excellent (I left behind four months worth of sick time when I left APT) and I'm a long way from retiring. I've been blessed to work these past four decades in a field I love, and I'm very much ready, willing, and able to begin my next chapter.
40 years sounds like a very long time, but I gotta tell you this: I'm as good a journalist as I've ever been. My health is excellent (I left behind four months worth of sick time when I left APT) and I'm a long way from retiring. I've been blessed to work these past four decades in a field I love, and I'm very much ready, willing, and able to begin my next chapter.
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Oooh, Tim! How odd is it that you and Bill Canary worked at the SAME place! Spooooky, I tell ya'! (Can you be trusted?) *LOL*
ReplyDeleteWell, Bill's right about FTR. We miss it too! In fact, most every person with whom I've spoken who does watch APTV - even just a little - misses it.
You da' man! Their ratings are down, for certain.
Alan Pizzato's the one whom ougta' be fired! (I hope they paid you for your unused sick leave!)