Steve Dale: Beyond Pets

Steve Dale is known all around the media for his advice and passion for pets, but he's had a lot of other experience in radio, including WCFL, WLS, WCLR, WGN, WYCA, and WLTD (now WCGO) with Fred Winston, Larry Lujack, John Landecker, Wally Phillips, Roy Leonard, Bob and Betty Sanders, Dean Richards, and even was part of a "secret project" to change WCFL's format and got fired in an elevator. Plus, he's been a restaurant critic for Crain's Chicago Business, a syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services, followed Oprah and entertainment for People magazine and USA Today, and has written books and many other articles.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG92.mp3

Sherman Kaplan: living well in radio

Sherman Kaplan talks about his long radio career, which
started in Ohio: as a music disc jockey at WAEF in Cincinnati, as "Mike Sherman the Night Creature" at WSAI in Cincinnati, then in Columbus, Charlotte, and WBBM Newsradio in Chicago, where he's been for over 40 years. He talks about job security, culture, travel, being a restaurant critic, his favorite restaurants, getting hired by Drew Hayes to do the Noon Business Hour on WBBM, and more.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG91.mp3

Mitch Rosen: Sports Radio Boss

Mitch Rosen is the program director of WSCR "The Score" in Chicago, and has worked in Chicago radio for several years, including at WGN and WLUP "The Loop" with Eddie Schwartz and Kevin Matthews, and as a program director at WMVP-AM 1000. He talks about what it takes to work in Chicago sports radio, why he thinks sports radio will remain popular, his experience with Ozzie Guillen and the White Sox, hosts at The Score, and more.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG90.mp3

Hector Soriano: Brandmeier Audio and Bike Guy

You can hear Hector Soriano on Jonathan Brandmeier's show on WGN Radio in Chicago, where he is also in charge of audio. He also worked with Brandmeier in Los Angeles at "Arrow", aka KCBS, and at "The Loop" WLUP in Chicago. He talks about how he started working for Brandmeier, why he likes Chicago more than LA, his bicycle repair gig, what he thinks of Spanish radio, and more.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG89.mp3

Jimmy "Mac" McInerney: Busy Radio and Podcasting Guy

Jimmy "Mac" McInerney does the hugely popular Forcecast, for which he's interviewed several famous people connected to Star Wars, including George Lucas, Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, and Dave Filoni (director of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars"). He's also been working in radio for several years, including WCKG and WLUP "The Loop" for Jonathan Brandmeier's show in Los Angeles and Chicago. He currently does production at WERV "The River" (formerly WKKD, where weather guy Tom Skilling started out) and where Mitch Michaels is on the air. Two other podcasts he's involved in are Snyde Remarks Radio with his wife, Wendy Snyder, and Bondcast, which is about James Bond. Plus he's got production gigs on the side. He is a very busy guy!

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG88.mp3

John Carney: Doing Talk Radio Again

When I interviewed John Carney last year, he was at Fresh FM in St. Louis. Now he's at KTRS doing talk radio again. He talks about interviewing celebrities, the beer biz in St. Louis, why he left Fresh FM, why he likes talk radio so much, schools in St. Louis, working without a contract, and more. He's a great interviewer so his show is really good.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG87.mp3

Alan Cox: FM Talk Star

Alan Cox has a very popular afternoon drive show on WMMS in Cleveland, and he talks about how he got there from Chicago, where he was on the air at the now-defunct WKQX (Q101). He also talks about his career including working for Jonathan Brandmeier, what he thinks is good talk radio, how he preps, his career in Pittsburgh and Michigan, comedy, the radio biz, why it's good to have an agent, how he got his WMMS crew, Chicago vs. Cleveland, Lake Erie vs. Lake Michigan, and a lot more.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG86.mp3

Greg Brown: Created to Be in Radio

Greg Brown is celebrating his fifth year at WLS-FM in Chicago, and talks about how he got his start in music radio, which has included suburban stations and big stations in Chicago, such as WJMK, WTMX, and WKQX. He also talks about how he's kept a positive attitude through firings and format changes, his longevity, team spirit, and more.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG85.mp3

Anupy Singla: from TV News to Indian Cooking Star

Anupy Singla was a reporter for Bloomberg News, WGN-TV, and CLTV, and has now launched a successful business around Indian food, including her popular cookbooks Vegan Indian Cooking and The Indian Slow Cooker, products at Williams-Sonoma, classes, and a lot more! She is going to be a huge national star (i.e., will probably do national TV), so it was nice of her to do this podcast before she hits the big time :)

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG84.mp3

Java Joel Murphy: Wired on Radio

Joel Murphy (aka Java Joel) is on the air in Cleveland at 96.5 KISS-FM, and is also the Music Director at 106.5 The Lake in Cleveland, afternoon talent on 94.7 Hits FM in Montreal, and an all-around fun guy. He talks about his start in New York and his Chicago career, which included an interesting run at 103.5 KISS-FM, a short one at WCKG, his infamous interview with Justin Timberlake, getting fired, living in uber-suburban Wheaton, then getting hired in Cleveland by Kevin Metheny, the awesomeness of Julian Nieh and Jay Niice, and more.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG83.mp3

Steve Scott: Interesting News Guy

Steve Scott, who did news for several years at WLS in Chicago, talks about his career in California, Chicago, and now New York, where he does news at WCBS, and how he got that great job. He also describes the differences between the coasts and the midwest, how he scored his WLS job, and what it's like to do announcing for the Chicago Bulls and New York Knicks.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG82.mp3

Randy Norris: Ohio Radio Guy

Randy Norris is the Creative Services Director for Cumulus stations Warm 98 WRRM, 103.5 WGRR, 96 Rock WFTK, 94.1 WNNF Great Country, and WOFX The Fox in Cincinnati. He talks about his career and gives advice to people who want to work in radio. He grew up in Ashland, Ohio (where Ken Jennings also grew up), went to school in Ohio, married someone from Ohio, and has worked in Ohio his entire career. So he's Mr. Ohio!

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG81.mp3

Bonnie Koloc: Soulful Singer

Bonnie Koloc talks about her music career, the music business, living in New York, performing at the Earl of Old Town, the 1960's, art, her background, her brother, Iowa, Chicago, and her new CD Rediscovered. 

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG80.mp3

Steve Leventhal: Creator of Internetfm.com

Steve Leventhal is the creator of Internetfm.com, where he streams a few internet music stations (Zecom Radio, Okemos Brewing Company, and his own Acid Flashback channel), and features music from Vinyl Schminyl Radio (hosted by Bob Stern, whom I interviewed before) and a Song of the Day from Eric Berman. Steve talks about his radio experience and why he thinks internet radio is growing in popularity. Btw--he was my first Skype interview, and I would like to thank him for being very understanding about my technical difficulties!

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG79.mp3

Bernie Tafoya: Newsguy with a Great Attitude

Bernie Tafoya has been a reporter at WBBM Radio for several years and talks about his radio career in Chicago at Shadow Traffic, WIND, WCFL, WFYR, WCLR, and WBBM, growing up in the projects on the South Side, his Mexican and Irish background, the changing media, and his good attitude.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG78.mp3

Charlie Meyerson: Optimistic News Guy

Charlie Meyerson, who is the Chicago Bureau Chief at FM News, talks about his career at WXRT, WNUA, the Tribune Company, and WGN Radio. He also talks about his audio reports, his new teaching gig at Roosevelt University, and shares his optimism about the media. And he just found out that he and the FM News team won a Silver Dome Award from the Illinois Broadcasters Association for Chicago Market Radio Best Live Coverage of an Event, which was the sentencing of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Basically, his career seems pretty golden.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG77.mp3

Craig Roberts: Radio and TV Fun

Craig Roberts talks about why he loves listening to and working in Top 40 radio, including WOKY "Mighty 92" in Milwaukee, KIIS-FM in Los Angeles, KHTR in St. Louis, KFRC and KITS in San Francisco, and WMET in Chicago. He also talks about how much fun music radio used to be, the early days of FM radio, what it was like to break new bands such as the Village People and Bay City Rollers, working with Gary Price, and his TV voiceover work all over the country that has included WKNX, WJRT in Flint, KTVI in St. Louis, KPIX in San Francisco, WLUK in Greenbay, KCNC in Denver, WPXI in Philadelphia, and WVTV CW18 in Milwaukee.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG76.mp3

Nick Digilio: Movie Addict, Radio Host, Stand-Up Comedian, and More

Nick Digilio talks about his gig at WGN radio, how Roy Leonard gave him his big break, his partnership with Garry Lee Wright, his involvement with Factory Theater, why he loves movies, his stand-up comedy, criticism, and more. I also asked him questions that people posted on the Radiogirl Podcast Facebook page.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG75.mp3

Mike McConnell: Still at WGN and Answers More Questions

The previous podcast that Mike McConnell did with me was very popular and got a lot of positive feedback, so I decided to ask him some follow-up questions about his run at WGN, and also asked him questions that listeners posted online or in emails about how his show has changed since Kevin Metheny and Randy Michaels left the Tribune Company, what he thinks of the audience, Chicago, and more.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG74.mp3

Jeff Davis: Superior Voiceover, Production, Artistic Master

Jeff Davis talks about his long career in radio, including WLS in Chicago, KNX in Los Angeles, CFRB in Toronto, and several other American and Canadian radio stations. He also talks about his work in TV and movies, and what it was like to work with people such as John Gehron, Bob Pittman, Jan Jeffries, Kurt Kelly, and Ed Hopkins. And he discusses accents, broadcasting, why he didn't go to WNBC, how music radio has changed, succeeding in Los Angeles, and even shares some advice. He's an extraordinarily talented and decent guy who works hard every day.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG73.mp3