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- Some radio stories you just can't make up. They were not funny at the time, but they are now. Here are two of my favorites from six decades of broadcasting
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We all have great stories to tell. If I ever write a book here are two of the stories that will be in it. Listen now to 22 minutes of radio mayhem. One when I was brand new to the business and the other when I was near the peak of my career.
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24 min - CBS Radio news is a thing of the past. 30 year correspondent and space reporter Peter King talks about his time with the world's most respected Radio News Network
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CBS Radio News is no more! It ended abruptly for 700 affiliates in May of 2026. CBS Radio Correspondent Peter King ends a 30 year association with the 99 year old institution of CBS Radio News.
Amonng reporting and anchoring duties, Peter was the space reporter for the network for 3 decades.
Peter joins host John Lelsie in this episode of Talking About Radio to talk about his remarkable Network radio career.
You can reach Peter King by email at pkingnews62@gmail.,com
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59 min - Talking to Ronald McDonald got me into a lot of trouble.
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Five words! That’s all it took for the stuff to hit the fan and collapse one of the biggest media promotional agreements in modern history. And, I was the one poor soul who inadvertently short circuited the whole mega deal. Here is an 18 minute podcast with all of the gruesome details.
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18 min - Who was left standing when the smoke cleared? Taking Kansas City by storm, but was it enough to grab the radio morning show ratings. Here is the story about giving it my best shot and how well it worked.
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The brightest promotional ideas. The best execution. The local, national and international media attention. It's all part of this amazing morning show barrage of spotlight promotions in one of Mid America's largest markets. How did it all work? What was the payoff.
Who was left standing when the smoke cleared?
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44 min - For nearly 47 years Pat Powers has been the voice of radio news on KQWC in Webster City Iowa. He is Talking About Radio with John Leslie
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KQWC in Webster City, Iowa serves the Hamilton Country region of Northern Iowa with full service radio. News, Sports, Weather and community events. News Director Pat Powers has been there to see these services take place for over four decades. He talks about his time with KQWC in this episode of Talking About Radio with John Leslie.
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46 min - I used my secret formula. This is the next installment of getting and keeping ratings. In 1976, I took the Great Country KSO morning ratings from 9 to 27 in my first book. Here's the story in a 43 minute episode
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I was "on the air" at WFBL in Syracuse in 1976 when Stoner Broadcasting System hired me to host the morning show on their flagship station in Des Moines, Great Country KSO.
I arrived one week before the fall sweeps began. The show went fom a 9 share to a 27 share in that book. Here is the continuation of my audio commentary on I managed to get at keep high morning show numbers year after year.
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44 min - Here is the true story about my being banned permanently from Talk of Lake Aston, the community chat forum that I founded. It’s 17 minutes in length and contains the true story.
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Don’t believe the fake stories. Here it the real story how the current administrator of talk of Lake Ashton justified banning me for absolutely no reason.
Don’t believe the fake stories
I only worked about 1000 hours getting that Facebook group up and running for the citizens of Lake Ashton.
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decided18 min - Just like arriving in the "Big Time." At least that’s the way it sounded when we put a top shelf staff together in Syracuse, New York. My podcast, Talking About Radio" continues now.
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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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38 min - For only this time, this podcast is not about radio. It is about a personal issue that I have about being cyber bullied.
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I am telling a story about how I have been totally disrespected for my hundreds of hundred of hours of hard work, creating a wonderful community chat group. It’s 17 minutes long and it is all about me being treated like a nobody by an administrator.
Please spend !7 minutes of your valuable time and listen to my story.
This is not something that your online radio station will likely want to re-broadcast, but then maybe it is.
There is a lesson to be learned by everyone from this 17 minute podcast. Help me shine the international Spotlight on this very local story.
18 min - How did I get a 38 share 12+ in my very first ratings book ever? This is episode one of my six part audio narrative about how I was able to get and maintain double digit ratings for 25 years.
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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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