face for radio

I was drawn to this competition after reading a story about it which said "do you have a face for radio?". I figured that based on that criteria I should qualify hands down and those who have seen my picture will validate my point. But in all seriousness the beauty of radio and thus I think an ingredient to the ongoing need/demand for radio has to do with that very thing. Radio engages our imagination in a way unlike any other medium. Today's generation x'ers and y'ers or whatever they are called have been the beneficiaries of some great technological change which most of them have grown up with. They have however been denied something that some of us with a few more miles on the odometer had the opportunity to experience first hand, namely top 40 radio. As you know top 40 is a format that is pretty much gone these days. While I'm not one to revel in the past and spend my days waiting for 1965 to come back around, it was an interesting period of time from the standpoint that there was a time when on the radio you could hear Elvis, The Beatles, Dean Martin, The Rolling Stones, Brenda Lee and Sonny & Cher all in the same hour on the same station. Today that format is marketed as the Music of Your Life and it was a heckuva life. In those days we imagined what it would be like to sing like Elvis or imagined him singing right then when in reality what we were hearing was a piece of 7 inch vinyl gliding across a turntable and the whole thing being programmed by someone who looked nothing like we imagined. But our imagination was engaged. Public Radio is the torch bearer these days for "theater of the mind" radio. It is to their credit and to our good fortune.

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