Gary Reid, a radio and broadcasting legend in Michigan, built the country’s most successful college radio station. He sat down with us to talk the future of radio, the trouble with millennials and seismic shifts in the way we consume music.

Also this week: Chris knocks the universe off kilter by going on TWO dates and gets a can’t-miss lesson in dating.

Starting as a professional rock drummer and disc jockey in the 60s, Gary Reid began teaching radio production at Michigan State University in 1977 and was eventually handed the reigns of the entire TV and radio broadcasting operation. He’s seen broadcasting grow from the black and white, personality-dominated days of Walter Cronkite to the banning of George Carlin’s 7 Dirty Words to the explosive growth of services like Spotify and Pandora. Today, he is Director Emeritus of Broadcasting and General Manager of WKAR-TV, WKAR AM/FM, affiliates of PBS and NPR and WDBM-FM. He is an inductee in the Michigan Broadcast Hall of Fame and received their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.

Listen to WDBM, Impact 89 at http://impact89fm.org/

WKAR at www.wkar.org

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