[DeltAlum]

Silver Turtle,

Actually, I started my paid broadcasting career right there in Columbus when I was in High School answering the telephone at WCOL, which was a rocker at that time. Then I was an on air "personality" for a Junior Achievement radio company at WBNS.

In college I worked at the university radio station doing the morning drive time show as a first semester freshman -- which really ticked a lot of upperclassmen off.

The situation I was talking about above was down Route 33 at WATH in Athens while I was a O.U. (That's the original OU -- the one chartered in 1787 and founded in 1804, not the one in Oklahoma or Oregon) At the time it played a little bit of everything, but I was basically a "top 40/oldies" every other song kind of show. I was also announcer for the marching band in both high school and college. Then I became a television announcer (back when TV stations had live announcers) at Channel 4 in Columbus.

During the "Summer of Love," 1967, I lived in Athens and worked at the station. There was a GREAT local "trumpet band" ala Chicago and BS&T living right down the street from me, and a bunch of Delts had rented a summer house in town. Damn, what a party that summer was.

I dropped out of school to become a television director, and finished my last 14.5 hours twenty-five years later -- much like my fellow Bobcat, Today Show host Matt Lauer who graced the halls of "Harvard on the Hocking" some years after my time there.

And, yeah, I think I was a pretty good jock for a while...