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29. I worked as the producer for a progressive talk radio show in the NYC region.

Thu May 29, 2025, 04:26 AM

May 29

Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. to 9 a.m.

Never did it before, but I loved it. This was 2008 to 2010.

I got guests for the host by making cold calls. Politicians, authors, actors, regular people doing extraordinary things, etc. (Shameless name-dropping: Ted Sorensen, Jim Hightower, Greg Palast, Carl Reiner, George McGovern)

My guy could get a book from a publisher and just breathe it in one day and be ready for the interview.

I also marketed commercial time and wrote script.

When the show was on, I monitored for quality, e.g., if a mistake was made, I'd IM the host and he'd correct it on the air. I'd also scour online for late-breaking news to broadcast.

While there were three other talk shows on the air as we were, there were times we beat them with breaking news. For example, we were the first to broadcast that SC Governor Mark Sanford was missing and provided updates during that broadcast.

And we were one of the few radio shows that had former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman (several times) to give him air time for the corruption that put him in prison.

No other job can ever give me the satisfaction I got from this experience.

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