College Radio - Tumblr Posts

"It's not radio. It's college radio. There's nobody listening. Nobody. Maybe, like, three guys in a dorm somewhere."  After a then-senior at Boston University Howard Stern crafted "the single worst moment in radio history" after toppling over a pile of carts (long-lost cousins of the long-lost eight-track), halting a spin of Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" in his hit 1997 box office biopic "Private Parts," the eventual "King of All Media" was convinced that his radio career had ended after mere rotations of a 33 on campus radio station WTBU.  In the film, a friend incredulously listens to Stern's drama over the gaffe. "It's not radio. It's college radio," he counters, seemingly more as fact than an attempt to ease the budding air talent's horror.

Continue Reading

yeah, why not? Mad Dad Hour sounds great. kudos to the Dutch man, and to you for your transcription of the conversation; i hear the pfffHAHAHAAH and it is a joy

I ever tell you guys about my ethically dubious radio show back in college? The Mad Dad Hour?