Friday, May 9, 2008

Barry Michaels-Radio is my life!

© by: Dieter Martin

In thirty years of broadcast veteran Barry Michaels, ( 'Michaels In The Morning "), which has some stories to tell! His early life is an idyllic, more and more on picturesque farmland in the southern USA, with Mom and Dad to admire and a support group of aunts and uncles that many do not today. Barry has become interested in radio at a younger age, become a "gopher" for a radio personality Local and quickly learning where the emphasis is on the term "show business". Barry's career began in earnest after college, when he finally screwed his courage to apply a small radio station near in his hometown, where he spoke mostly to cows. Little did management know he would have paid to be on the air! To have the honor to be recognized by his peers for applications, the main market of Air Personality of the year to work as a towel boy in a swanky country club between radio jobs, you'll share Barry's summit of the mountain and down outweighs the valley lows. You will meet some of the most talented professionals in the company and encourage you heroes and clinch your teeth at the wicked! Barry also honors those who entertained and inspired an entire generation of radio personalities-the voice on the fifty thousand watt am radio stations with legendary call letters like WLS, WCFL, WABC and more.

From sleeping in his Volkswagen 'bug' to traveling across the USA five times in search of the perfect on air radio job, Barry stories are poignant and laugh out loud funny. Learn how Barry was almost gunned down by a psychotic listener at a radio station in Orlando, Florida before his boss intervened. See radio through his eyes when he started working at a rock and roll station that employs a Catholic priest as a "DJ", and dodges flying beer bottles in one of many bars, he makes appearances for his radio station.

The 'Radio Road' is fraught with many bumps on the road May and you see yourself as Barry attempts to raise three young son as a single father and tries to return after a bitter divorce and child custody battle. You May not want to enter the thirty-five dollars a week almost condemned house Barry was living while awaiting the court's decision. You do not want to wake up in his room during a thunderstorm as rats prepare to feast on his toes! Meet his new landlord, who on his luck too, and it has a secret past with the U.S. army. Barry's adventures have taken him from the beautiful stillness of his blue Virginia mountains to the Pacific Ocean gold - all seen through the window of his beloved Volkswagen Beetle, which he still owns. This is the radio, that's life, and it is real. Go for the ride, and discover the true history of these "hidden runners-wave radio." With photo and audio collection.

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