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It's a shame what's happened to radio - Down the Road

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A repeat of an article I first published on 30 July 2009. I’ve expanded and updated it. I signed off the air for the last time in 1994, capping a nine-year side career on the radio. People still sometimes ask me if I miss being a disk jockey, and for a long time I always wistfully answered yes. But not anymore. It’s not that I would be rusty as heck after all these years – and boy, would I. It’s that radio has changed drastically, and it just wouldn’t be any fun for me today. On the air, WZZQ Terre Haute, 1994 " data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/blog.jimgrey.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/meonwzzq.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/blog.jimgrey.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/meonwzzq.jpg?resize=1200%2C800" alt="MeOnWZZQ"> I listened to a lot of radio when I was a teen. It was a companion when I was by myself doing homework or whatever. I called in requests and tried to win contests (but never did).…

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