The Cart Before the Horse

 The Cart Before the Horse

Yes, I am new to some elements of social media. I jumped in with a medical story without even introducing myself. I assumed becaUse my of my television and radio experience you would know me. OK here are the highlights and then I will on to Storytelling. I started my TV career with a little show Sound Off for Orange Seminole Cable, This is where I began interviewing, my passion. I say "practice" few people didn't have cable, the only way to see the show. The taped show ean every Thursday; I made the boys watch it.

 watch with me. The my story res up. I hosted and produced and hosted produced a show Florida Highway which lasted 4 months until the station went belly up. I was a cub reporter for WDBO.That was where I learned the basics of radio and television news. In 1976 I made a big jump into TV news.I was hired by channel nine todo Good Morning Florida a nd theroke some viewing  noon news. The noon news became very popular and broke a record for viewership at noon. It was a combination of My good friend Danny Treaor doing the weather,me and the chemistry the Danny and I had that made it

popular. January 1978 that I was named c0-anchor of the six o'clock news with Bob Jordan.I will highlight some of the rest of My career but I will go into some of these in future blogs. In 1981 I switched to channel six Newswatch. I anchored the noon and six o'clock. When channel six moved into a new building that I had a studio for the noon show . We had a hundred viewers a day in the studio audience. In 1987 Channel offered me a six figure income to return to Channel 9. I also had a three hour daily radio talk show. Channel 9 broke my conract. I got canned and the radio job went down the tube six months later. I was unemployed, broke and depressed. I decided to move to Seattle where I knew no one The six years I spent there as a radio talk show host and professor at The Art Institute were some of the most exciting of my life.I returned to Central Florida in 1998. In the years since I have hosted and produced a program Transitions, taught  as an adjunct for  The university of Central Flrida, Daytona State and Seminole State. I retired after hosting two radio stations. My last radio show in 2008 was broadcast from a 50 thousand watt in Cocoa Beach. I was interviewing anchors, I had come fu ll circle from my little talk show in Sanfor 1973.When I retired, I married Sonny Pond and we have lived in Deltona since then.My current home at Majestic Oaks you will read more about as I build this blog.