Up & Down The Broadcast Trail

Up & Down The Broadcast Trail

Exploring the personalities and backstories in a decades-long broadcasting career, including local TV and Radio Stations, the twists of fate, and why it was necessary to move on to the next chapters!

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June 18, 2025 84 mins

This 3rd installment in the series takes us to the crazy days in Miami, from the mid-1980s to the early '90s!

I was hired as the part-time Weekend Weatherman, my third job in television, on the condition that if I worked every weekend for a full year, I would be hired full-time at that Independent WCIX Channel 6, that at the time was a steadfast but signal-challenged station. I was still working Monday through Friday as a Weath...

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The next stop: my 2nd job in TV at one of the best cable companies in the country at the time, the award-winning Palmer Cablevision in Naples, FL. There are more twists of fate, how our lives randomly intersected, and -- like TV51 in Reading (covered in S1 E1)-- it too didn't last long. Why that happened, the backstories, the fun, and what happened next!

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This is the premiere installment, Season 1 Episode 1, of "Up & Down The Broadcast Trail", a Video Podcast, where I explore the various TV and Radio Stations I've worked for, and all the backstories, that led me to and through a successful career in broadcasting!

This time around: WTVE-TV Reading, Pennsylvania, my first job in television. There were strange twists of fate, chance encounters, persistence, and a little bit of l...

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