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I had never worked with such a talented staff. The station was filled with magic when our new team of talent arrived in 1974.

This is a continuation of my audio book memoirs on how I was able to muster double digit ratings year after year for nearly 5 decade.

My year at WFBL in Syracuse introduced me to a stable of the nations top talent. What I learned from them has stayed with me til this day 51 years later.

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Episode one is a 34 minute look at my very earliest days as a morning show host. My friends and family have encouraged me for years to write a
book about my morning show adventures. I would rather do it in the form that I know best, an audiobook as a podcast. There will be six episodes in the series
This is the first one and it dates back to the early 70s in Binghamton, New York. I really didn’t want to do a morning show. But it was a blessing.

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There was plenty of opportunity to find myself in awkward, creepy and sometimes life threatening situations during my decade of being a foreign correspondent for Stoner Broadcasting System. Bizarre events seemed to be my constant companion while on my assignment behind the iron curtain in the former USSR. This is part two of my adventures in Siberia and Armenia. You will enjoy this 34 minute narrative of my life and times as a foreign correspondent.

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Being a foreign correspondent on the other side of the world brings with it excitement, danger and intrigue, specially if you had never done it before. This is 20 minute episode is part one of a multi part special edition of Talking About Radio with John Leslie. This assignment took me as far away from home as one can possibly get.

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For the first time, the entire story of this historic radio broadcast event is told in Audio Book fashion. Production of this epic retrospective required 39 separate creative sessions, 39 separate editing sessions, 39 separate rehearsal sessions, 45 separate recording sessions and 39 separate productions sessions.

No other radio broadcaster on the planet owns this story. It is one of a kind.

This special edition podcast of Talking About Radio is 1 hour and 52 minutes in length. It is a must listen all the way through to the end. Wether you listen in one sitting or break it up into several sessions, it is a remarkable story that can be told by only one person, John Leslie, host of the podcast. It is a must listen all the way through to the end.

This story is now told in its entirety, with every detail, to be archived for present and future communicators and interested citizens, to hear and learn.

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This radio promotion is so complicated, there is only one way to tell the story in its entirety. None of the original sound exists so now I tell this story in a 57 minute mini audio book style so that all of the twists and turns can be described in detail. It is chronicled in this podcast to be saved for all of history.

All of us in the radio industry have had great "on air" promotions from time to time, but never before or since have I heard of a more protracted morning show escapade in the name of ratings.

Please take time to listen to my mini audio book story of the great abominable snowman hunt on Mount Everest in Katmandu, Nepal.

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Any broadcasting job you can imagine, Doug Clark, known professionally as Jack Scott, has done it. From early radio and television, morning show host on both coasts, program management, general management and ownership, Doug is a thru broadcast professional.

He joins us on this edition of Talking About Radio to talk about his transition from banking to broadcasting and what it has meant to him. Speaking from Gloversville, New York where is is an integral part of the community, Doug has tons of interesting stories and insights into today's state of radio broadcasting.

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This podcast episode is Talking About Radio with, yours truly, John Leslie…with guest host Elizabeth Grattan.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Elizabeth on a previous episode about her career in the industry and we decided it might be interesting to flip the script and the result is an entertaining and insightful look into my very own journey.

Elizabeth is known all across the country for her outstanding imaging, voice tracking and voice-over work. Now, she has shown herself to be an accomplished interviewer.

Elizabeth stepped into my role and executed it flawlessly. She is witty, charming, intellectual, probing and able to pull emotions to the forefront as she interviews her guests. I know, because it happened to me!

Please be sure to listen to this ever entertaining episode of Talking About Radio With Elizabeth Grattan. It really was fun.

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