Allie Gold, Class of 2015, joins us today.  She's a former general manager of WJPZ, and is currently the digital content manager for Elvis Duran and the Morning Show at Z100 New York. 

Allie, like many of us, talks about her obsession with the radio growing up.  Given how far out on Long Island she was, she was more of a WBLI P1 than Z100.  But BLI is what made her fall in love with radio.

She got to Syracuse, however, thinking she wanted to get into television.  But it was a chance meeting with Craig Hoffman at accepted students day in the Dome that brought her to WJPZ.  After training on-air, she quickly became a part of the Z Morning Zoo with Jeff Cucinell and Luke Walsh.

Allie had aspirations of being General Manager, but after spending a semester in Florence, she didn't think it would work out.  But it did, and she ended up choosing Z89 over a second semester in Italy.    Back stateside, she had to re-establish the community of the station after a remodel.  The station had been voice tracked out of Newhouse for a semester during construction, and it was on Allie and her team to rebuild the social fabric of WJPZ.  She did this with by establishing a kickball rivalry with Citrus TV, social events like "HallowZeen," and more.

The lessons Allie learned at WJPZ, and the relationships she built, eventually landed her at Z100 in New York.  We close the podcast by talking about what Allie sees as radio's future in a post-pandemic world.  She talks about the importance of positivity and rebuilding communities.

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