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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August 13, 2026 2 mins

This is the teaser promo for "Up & Down The Broadcast Trail", the ongoing video podcast chronicling my adventures on the 'TV News Merry-Go-Round'!

In this installment, when you watch the full episode (also on my YouTube page or on "TV Through the Tunnel of Time" TVTTTOT.com), you'll catch the behind the scenes impressions of those of us who were there, when I arrived at WHP-TV 21 in Harrisburg, PA, in the autumn of 1990, afte...

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Now, on TV Through the Tunnel of Time, let's go from Miami -- to Harrisburg?!

That's right! For five-and-a-half years, I was part-time at WCIX-TV Miami, after a broken promise of being full-time if I worked that first year weekend's only!

I learned my lesson, and took a step back, to the Medium Markets, sending out tapes all across the country. But it was my home high school year's area that called me back.

Signed contract in...

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This is the second part of the two part video podcast at WCIX-TV Miami on "TV Through The Tunnel of Time", Season 1 Episode 4.

Join me and Producer Jeff Lemlich (www.youtube.com/@Jeffers67), Director Pete McCoy, and Reporter Mark Tudino for the discussion and back-stories as to what it was like being at the station that went from a sleepy Independent station with a 10 O'Clock Newscast, to becoming the first Fox Affiliate in the c...

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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 Weathe...

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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 lu...

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