Joe McArdle: Awesome Voice and Production Guy

Joe McArdle, who's currently the Creative Director at WMVP/ESPN Radio and a voiceover artiste, talks about his career at WXRT, WCPT, Nine-FM, and WMAQ, and thanks the people who've helped him along the way.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG63.mp3

Brian Noonan: From Stand-Up to Radio

Brian Noonan, who hosts an overnight show and is part of the superb Sports Night show on WGN, talks about his stand-up comedy and radio career, his appearance on the Tonight Show and sitcoms, working in Los Angeles, and what it's like to be a White Sox fan at the Cubs-dominated station.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG62.mp3

Roe Conn: Successful, Smart, Talented

Roe Conn has a popular afternoon show on WLS-AM. He talks about his career, how he got together with Garry Meier, Bill Leff, and his current partner, Richard Roeper; what he learned when he worked with Don Vogel; how TV is different than radio, WLS's changing management, the radio biz, and more.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG61.mp3

Jaime Black: Passionate About Chicago Music

An important part of the Chicago music media, Jaime Black talks about his popular Dynasty Podcast and his daily Chicago music news site Chicago Verse United. He also talks about working with Chris Payne on Q101/WKQX's Local 101 show, how it was different from WXRT's Local Anesthetic, and the Chicago music scene.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG60.mp3

Orion Samuelson: Legendary Agricultural Broadcaster

Orion Samuelson is a hugely successful and influential agricultural broadcaster whose career has lasted 60 years. He talks about his long career at WGN, Bob Collins, Wally Phillips, why he didn't run for Congress, his view of the economy, agriculture, government regulation, development, small towns, farming, the media, and more.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG59.mp3

Jim Moran: Radio Guy and Future Libertyville Mayor?

Jim Moran has done talk, traffic, and news for various radio stations, including WLS and WBBM in Chicago, and talks about the difficulties and joys of the biz, including working with Jay Marvin, Steve Scott, Cisco Cotto, Chip Egan, and Lenny Palmer. He wrote a book about Libertyville and is currently a Village Board Trustee there...but will he eventually be its Mayor?

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG58.mp3

Rick Kogan: Newspaper Guy with a Great Media Gig in Chicago

Rick Kogan talks about his gig at the Chicago Tribune, his radio show, what the Tribune was like when Randy Michaels and Lee Abrams were in charge, experiencing the death of the Chicago Daily News, his friendship with and book about Ann Landers, Mike Royko, his radio and TV gigs with Richard Roeper, what he thinks of the media, the whiners at the Tribune, journalism school, a dumb TV talent, and more.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG57.mp3

Jimme Love (pod #56 deleted)

Update: In 2011, I interviewed him about his music, video, and movie work (he was involved in "Transformers 3," which was shot in Chicago). Recently, he asked me to delete this interview "asap." Thanks to everyone who listened--it got over 2,000 hits. Since I put a lot of work into it (I had to record, then edit, then re-edit at his request), I wanted to keep this post here to let people know why there's a gap in the pod list (all the episodes are sequentially numbered). And thanks for visiting my podcast page--check out the other ones, which are listed on the right.

Bob Stern: Classic Rock on Vinyl Schminyl Radio

Bob Stern talks about his podcast Vinyl Schminyl Radio, which features classic rock. He also talks about why he stopped pursuing broadcast radio many years ago.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG55.mp3

Dean Richards: Chicago Media Celebrity

Dean Richards, who became famous beyond Chicago when Mel Gibson called him an a**hole, talks about his radio and TV career, why he was miserable at WNUA, how music radio has been ruined, obnoxious celebrities he's interviewed, which ones were decent, his cancer scare, the perks of fame, fans, WGN Radio, WGN-TV, and more.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG54.mp3

Roger Badesch: Newscaster and Teacher Who's Living the Dream

Roger Badesch does the weekend news at WGN with Nick Digilio and Brian Noonan, and he also teaches broadcasting at Chicago Vocational Career Academy. He even has a fan page on Facebook, created by a listener. He says he has found success and is living the dream!

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG53.mp3

Cara Carriveau: Vivacious Music Radio Talent

Cara Carriveau, who's the midday personality at the top music station, The Mix - WTMX, talks about her podcast, career, if a letter to columnist Robert Feder got her fired from The Loop - WLUP, the future of music radio, voicetracking, the radio biz, and more.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG52.mp3

Jeff Goldblatt: Not a Dumb TV News Guy

Jeff Goldblatt talks about being a reporter and anchor in TV news, former Fox News coworker Shepard Smith, Fox boss Roger Ailes, the TV news business, and more.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG51.mp3

Jason Skaggs: Passionate Commercial Guy

Sometimes I hear commercials that are everywhere, and assume they were created by large agencies, but there's a Gerber collision spot that has been around for a while, and I recently found out that it was created and voiced by the commercial services director at WGN Radio in Chicago. His name is Jason Skaggs, and he came from Cumulus headquarters in Atlanta. He also won a Radio-Mercury Award for a local spot he did in Missouri. He is very passionate and enthusiastic about creating commercials, and this is his first interview.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG50.mp3

RG Meet-Up: Online Radio, Evanston, Traffic, and Turmoil in Wisconsin

Yesterday I had an RG pod get-together with some interesting people: Marty Zivin from Zecom Radio, fellow Evanstonian and traffic guy Tom Gaines, Bart Shore from Time Warp Radio, and Scott Becher, who drove all the way from Madison, Wisconsin to talk about the drama there.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG49.mp3

Bruce Wolf: Super-Talented Media Guy!

Bruce Wolf is currently on WLS with Dan Proft, and has worked at various stations around Chicago, including WMVP, The Loop, The Score, WMAQ TV, and Fox Chicago. He talks about working with Steve Dahl, Garry Meier, and Jonathan Brandmeier, explains why he got fired from Fox and why Howard McGee isn't funny, shares some wacky things he's done on the air, talks about what it's like to work in TV and radio, if he's a weird sportscaster, and more.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG48.mp3

Mitch Michaels: When Radio was Fun and Creative

Mitch Michaels talks about what it was like to work in Chicago radio when it was still fun and creative. He worked in Cleveland and at some of the most popular stations in Chicago, including WLUP (The Loop), WCKG, WDAI, and WGLD, and talks about Don Imus, Steve Dahl, Disco Demolition, and getting fired numerous times.

He also talks about The Who concert that was simulcast on The Loop, which had never been done before. You can hear all the promos from that event, including the ones with Pete Townsend, at Mitch's site.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG47.mp3

An End-of-the-Year THANK YOU and a Few Emails

It's the last pod of the year, and I'd like to say THANK YOU to everyone. I also read a few emails. Don't worry--this THANK YOU pod isn't as long as the last one.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG46.mp3

Lise Dominique: Enthusiastic Radio News Announcer and Writer

Lise Dominique, who has been on the air with Jonathan Brandmeier, Robert Murphy, Kevin Matthews, Steve Dahl and Garry Meier, even Jerry Springer, talks about Drew Hayes and her radio experience at WLUP The Loop, Love-FM/Rewind 100.3, WLS-AM, and WGN-AM. She also talks about dogs, including Harvey the Wonderdog, and how columnist Cheryl Lavin inspired her writing.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG45.mp3

David Kaplan: Classy Sports Media Guy

David Kaplan is all over the Chicago sports media: on the radio at WGN and on TV through Comcast Sportsnet, in addition to his columns. He's a class act.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG44.mp3