Radio
Article written about me in The Golden Gate xPress
(San Francisco State Newspaper)
http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/arts/003024.html
Radio Resume
Radio Resume – Word Document
On Air Demo Tape
MOViN 997 On Air Demo
I’ve been working in radio since 2001 when I started interning with Channel 933 KHTS in San Diego. I was totally fired over a nipple incident and losing of the Crack Head Ball. So after I got the “we’re not going to need you next semester for our internship program” phone call, I drove to the station and my key card still worked and I had papers all ready for my next semester so I just crossed out one and filled in the info for 101KGB. I was given the second chance because I had stepped up and did work for the “rock” station while I was a pop star. I also think it was because my new boss wanted to stick it to my old boss. I my radio career continues and I started working for KGB.
After working for KGB for a while I still wasn’t making any money so I got a job scrubbing floors and cutting bagels near Grossmont College in La Mesa. Since I had a big mouth and always was talking to people they shoved me in the back and I had to clean everything. My Manager was cool about it and told me I would be something some day but today I was cleaning toilets.
The day I got hired, actually paid real money to work in radio and not just survive of what the sales people left in the conference room, was one of the best days of my life. I was paid $7 to drive a van around and give away DVDs, how awesome is that. I was also working for Rock 105.3 since Clear Channel was cutting back and merging departments, which was actually cool since I got to work at another station. We would do the same type of event just at different strip clubs.
Life was good but I needed more of an education … so I packed up my car and drove back to San Francisco where I started at San Francisco State. I interviewed at the local Clear Channel stations up here and since I was part of the “family” i got an interview for 106 KMEL. Yeah, I was conference room with your average Oakland police line up and I was the invisible one. The funny part about it was that I was really into Hip Hop & Rap, I had a hip hop show on KSFS called The Rush Hour once a week. But yeah, didn’t get the internship.
Yes, I was willing to work for free again to pay my dues and work my way back up in the same company I spent 3 years at.
Didn’t get the job, so I applied for a job as a van drive for 910AM KNEW, I even had a buddy who worked there and totally gave me the “you got this man, i talked to him, no worries” speech.
Yeah, I wasn’t the right fit.
Really?
OK, So then I did what everyone else does in the Entertainment Industry, I pulled some strings to get a sit down with the SVP of Programming West Coast Ed Krampf. After about an hour of nervous babbling about my love of radio and media and whatever else fell out of my mouth … I got a job.
Thanks Mom.
So I was doing college radio and working for 910 KNEW and 960 The Quake,which I never understood why that was a station name in the Bay Area?!?…but they say we’ve got the best weed in North America. I was the Program Director at KSFS which was fun expect it was college radio and everyone hated on “commercial radio” expect a handful of people who are all actually working in the industry now, and also working all the time at 340 Townsend.
Then all hell broke loose which happens all the time in radio, people get fired, quit, move on to real jobs with stability. That was happening and I was a casualty of the “taking the station in a new direction” which didn’t make much sense since I drove a van and pressed buttons.
So a new station was starting across the street at CBS called Free FM. I was hired as a board-op and being a board-op on a all talk FM radio station means you sometimes get to talk on the air. Which was great since I had moved on from a hip hop show to a 4 hour talk show on KSFS, talking on the radio was just like college, expect the hundred thousand people tuned in.
I would work Friday over nights, then Saturday afternoon, then Sunday morning moving up the chain like you do at every job. Sunday was great because they had a lot of live shows, so I would get a lot of random air time on shows about Mortages and Home Brewing.
I was then moved into running the board for Darian O’toole who had the mid-day show 10a to 2p. This was a huge step up from running a weekend board show for an hour and it was a great time. I was on air, pulling TV clips, booking guests, getting coffee and having a great time. Then Darian was replaced by Turi Ryder who didn’t really do bits of stuff like that but liked call in topics. We had a fun time on the radio talking to the Bay Area. During that time my friend from KNEW Drew Bader and I turned our podcast talk show at KSFS into a real show Saturday over nights. CBS gave the station to a bunch of college kids on the weekend and we had a great time. I’m going to upload the shows later here at iLoveChunk.Com
On The Couch w/Drew and Marcus was on the air until 106.9 Free FM ended and flipped back to KFRC.
I also just graduated days before the flip, but was able to keep my job and work with CBS until finally being hired as the Executive Producer for Baltazar & Maria on MOViN 99.7 KVMQ. I was hired at MOViN just after Labor Day 2007 and have been working mornings since then. MOViN was a format aimed at women so it was weird at first because working CHR, Rock, Political Talk then Male Talk seemed like a stretch.
then I realized that broads have a better sense of humor then dudes…and the rest is history.
…like they say.
Stay Tuned.
-Chunk
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