With joy - and some embarrassment - many former jocks have found each other on Facebook.
A few have posted some really wonderful - and a few embarrassing - photos from their careers.
If you have a Facebook account maybe you have some as well.
There is also a quick and easy way to set up a group for Houston radio jocks on Facebook. Facebook members can join that group and easily post photos and make connections ther as well.
Please let me know if you'd like me to set one up and if you'd like to be an administrator.
This site is getting little traffic since the reunion. While it will always be here for a place to connect for the next event, Facebook seems to be THE place to socialize online.
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Showing posts with label General. Show all posts
2.03.2009
12.16.2008
Ever Changing Circumstance
Recent changes at many Houston stations have prompted me to post a quick call to action!
Nope, sorry, I don't have any jobs to offer the many of you who have found themselves living the "Life After Radio".
I do know that email addresses of formerly employed radio folks may no longer be good addresses. And many of you may have lost your contact lists as well.
If you are one of the many recent "cut backs" in area radio and want to get your new email addresses out to everyone please let me know.
I will send out a newsletter including as soon as I can or you can post them as "comments" here. If you have a Facebook, MySpace or other website where folks can still touch base with you I'll be happy to post it on the sidebar as well.
Now that you have all this free time, it might be a good time to catch up again.10.12.2008
KILT News Bulletins from Nov 22, 1963
I was looking for some video to include in my newsletter this morning and ran across these. Granted, they are radio news stories recorded on Nov 22, 19663. So there's no actual video. But the audio quality is great and the voices of former KILT jocks are recognizable to a lot of long time KILT listeners.
They are from the AM heydays of KILT 610 AM.
They are from the AM heydays of KILT 610 AM.
6.15.2008
Connecting
Hey, if you haven't sent me your website to link on the blog...please do so.
My email link is on the sidebar.
Be sure to bring business cards to the reunion, too.
My email link is on the sidebar.
Be sure to bring business cards to the reunion, too.
6.05.2008
Early Numbers
Did ya'll see I got the blog mentioned in the Taylor On Radio Newsletter many of us subscibe to from Radio-Info?
That may explain why my email box was full of inquiries this morning. And the blog only allows 100 authors, so if ya want in ya gotta do it now.
The early numbers for the blog definitely aren't "flat".
I have received email from many Houston jocks - most wanting to be added as an author on the blog. The author numbers grow every day. I don't want to play blog police with ya'll (I don't have time and we're all grown ups here anyway), so I thought we might all get together and set up some "rules" to play.
Some responders have asked questions I thought I'd put up for discussion
l) Name vs screen name?
Let's use our air names here. Dontcha think? We have other message boards that many of us post on using faker names than our air names! Since we are playing nice on this blog I think we should, don't ya'll?
We talked on the Radio-Info board about wanting to have a place to reconnect and share stories and updates on careers and lives with former and current co-workers and radio friends. A former co-worker who lives in Tulsa now won't know you by some weird screen name.
2) Should we limit the blog to just jocks or can we include former sales people, office staff, promotions people?
I don't care one way or the other. I'd like it to be just jocks but some of my best friends in radio weren't jocks.
3) What kind of links should we keep on the side bar?
I think it should be personal websites (MySpace, Facebook, blogs etc). While a few radio related links are cool with me - and once we get a lot I'll separate personal and business related ones - let's get the personal ones on first. That way we can all take a look at what others are up to on their sites.
4)Labels? Who makes 'em?
Labels are the link at the bottom of each post that describes the category of the post. It makes locating similar entries a lot easier. I can add a generalization of them or you can add them as we go.
I find on my other blogs that if you get too many variations it is more confusing than helpful.
We could do broad ones like: radio history, on air mishaps, looking for a former co-worker. Maybe each station's calls could be a different category. You can add as many as you like to each post.
When you want to see all the posts that are about, say, old studio photos, you just click that label and it pulls up all of them in that category.
Just let me know.
5. Vulgarity.
Let's keep it as PG-13 as we can. The blog is available for anyone to read - unless you want me to set it private? I'm for keeping it on the cleanish side. Coolio?
6. Advertising
I've added a Google ad at the bottom because, well, if I make a buck or two for my time it's gravy. I will remove it if anyone objects.
I don't plan on selling advertising on this site. But if the opportunity comes up in the future it might be something we can discuss. I'm thinking any ad money we may make on this thing can go to a general fund for out bar tab at the reunion parties!!
Again, I'm doing this gratis - like much of my work at KIKK in the first years of this century (Ha!) - so the sooner I can make this functional and be done with the set up, the sooner I can go sit by my pool and enjoy being a semi retired social drinker! I have a variety of tools I use for all my blogs and websites - many I'm already paying for through my booking agency. I can try and adapt some of them here - including a newsletter so we can send private info back and forth without having anyone and everyone read things.
Anything else?
That may explain why my email box was full of inquiries this morning. And the blog only allows 100 authors, so if ya want in ya gotta do it now.
The early numbers for the blog definitely aren't "flat".
I have received email from many Houston jocks - most wanting to be added as an author on the blog. The author numbers grow every day. I don't want to play blog police with ya'll (I don't have time and we're all grown ups here anyway), so I thought we might all get together and set up some "rules" to play.
Some responders have asked questions I thought I'd put up for discussion
l) Name vs screen name?
Let's use our air names here. Dontcha think? We have other message boards that many of us post on using faker names than our air names! Since we are playing nice on this blog I think we should, don't ya'll?
We talked on the Radio-Info board about wanting to have a place to reconnect and share stories and updates on careers and lives with former and current co-workers and radio friends. A former co-worker who lives in Tulsa now won't know you by some weird screen name.
2) Should we limit the blog to just jocks or can we include former sales people, office staff, promotions people?
I don't care one way or the other. I'd like it to be just jocks but some of my best friends in radio weren't jocks.
3) What kind of links should we keep on the side bar?
I think it should be personal websites (MySpace, Facebook, blogs etc). While a few radio related links are cool with me - and once we get a lot I'll separate personal and business related ones - let's get the personal ones on first. That way we can all take a look at what others are up to on their sites.
4)Labels? Who makes 'em?
Labels are the link at the bottom of each post that describes the category of the post. It makes locating similar entries a lot easier. I can add a generalization of them or you can add them as we go.
I find on my other blogs that if you get too many variations it is more confusing than helpful.
We could do broad ones like: radio history, on air mishaps, looking for a former co-worker. Maybe each station's calls could be a different category. You can add as many as you like to each post.
When you want to see all the posts that are about, say, old studio photos, you just click that label and it pulls up all of them in that category.
Just let me know.
5. Vulgarity.
Let's keep it as PG-13 as we can. The blog is available for anyone to read - unless you want me to set it private? I'm for keeping it on the cleanish side. Coolio?
6. Advertising
I've added a Google ad at the bottom because, well, if I make a buck or two for my time it's gravy. I will remove it if anyone objects.
I don't plan on selling advertising on this site. But if the opportunity comes up in the future it might be something we can discuss. I'm thinking any ad money we may make on this thing can go to a general fund for out bar tab at the reunion parties!!
Again, I'm doing this gratis - like much of my work at KIKK in the first years of this century (Ha!) - so the sooner I can make this functional and be done with the set up, the sooner I can go sit by my pool and enjoy being a semi retired social drinker! I have a variety of tools I use for all my blogs and websites - many I'm already paying for through my booking agency. I can try and adapt some of them here - including a newsletter so we can send private info back and forth without having anyone and everyone read things.
Anything else?
6.03.2008
Welcome
This blog was inspired by a message board on Radio-Info.
Many current and former jocks from the Houston market have been discussing get togethers to catch up and "network" - or swap stories about the radio business or locate former co-workers.
If you are a veteran of Houston radio and would like to be part of this community, and be able to post on this blog; please email Leslie T Travis with your work history in Houston and the email address you would like to post under.
Leslie T will be the "unpaid intern" moderator of the blog and try and keep up with all the inquiries, posts and getting reunion details posted.
We will remove your post and your email address from the privileged who can post on this site if you post stuff that is hateful, libellous, useless to the group, stupid or we just don't like it. (Yeah, jocks in control!)
This site is for radio professionals, past and present, in the Houston market ONLY.
Fans are welcome to read but comments will be monitored.
This is not the place for your railing against a former employee, bitching about corporate radio or calling each other names. There's other places for that.
Over the next couple weeks we'll add links to jocks' websites when requested, links to favorite radio related sites that are recommended and other free services - such as classified ads and other stuff as we get to them.
If you are approved to post PLEASE DO NOT screw with the sidebar links or the template - just post.
If you have a link or site you'd like put on the sidebar mail it to Leslie T and we'll take a look at it before we give it a place on the blog.
For the most part, radio people are a pleasant group of folks and we plan to keep this site this way.
Now open the mic and lets get started.
(Added note: The Google ads go to Leslie T's account with Google ads. Click away!)
Many current and former jocks from the Houston market have been discussing get togethers to catch up and "network" - or swap stories about the radio business or locate former co-workers.
If you are a veteran of Houston radio and would like to be part of this community, and be able to post on this blog; please email Leslie T Travis with your work history in Houston and the email address you would like to post under.
Leslie T will be the "unpaid intern" moderator of the blog and try and keep up with all the inquiries, posts and getting reunion details posted.
We will remove your post and your email address from the privileged who can post on this site if you post stuff that is hateful, libellous, useless to the group, stupid or we just don't like it. (Yeah, jocks in control!)
This site is for radio professionals, past and present, in the Houston market ONLY.
Fans are welcome to read but comments will be monitored.
This is not the place for your railing against a former employee, bitching about corporate radio or calling each other names. There's other places for that.
Over the next couple weeks we'll add links to jocks' websites when requested, links to favorite radio related sites that are recommended and other free services - such as classified ads and other stuff as we get to them.
If you are approved to post PLEASE DO NOT screw with the sidebar links or the template - just post.
If you have a link or site you'd like put on the sidebar mail it to Leslie T and we'll take a look at it before we give it a place on the blog.
For the most part, radio people are a pleasant group of folks and we plan to keep this site this way.
Now open the mic and lets get started.
(Added note: The Google ads go to Leslie T's account with Google ads. Click away!)
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