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Thank you for that glorious introduction Keith. Hello all and thank you for allowing me this opportunity to express my opinions thru the glorious web institution that is Prod Ninja. Allow me to give you a small history of myself as well as what im doing today.

I was born a poor black child. No just playing, but i’ve always wanted to start a monologue like that. After graduating from Calhoun Community College i pursued a career in radio, this landed me in the metropolis of Athens working for Athens Broadcasting, AB was run by Bill “Bill D” Dunnavant and his wife Mary. Bill, as Keith has already said, made his claim to fame by being the first man to give a fledgling broadcaster by the name of Sean Hannity a job…we can all see how well that worked out! Bill stuck me in the newsroom of Huntsville AM powerhouse News Talk 770 AM WVNN. The home of such names as Peter Thiele, Darla Jaye and many other titans of loacl radio that myself and Keith are privledged to know. While Keith focused more on the production side of the business i was a news anchor under the instruction of one of my mentor’s: Marty Broman. It was there that i met some of the people who would shape my belief’s, ideals and views on things for the rest of my life. People that you’ve never heard of but if you had the privledge to meet would surely like. People like Mike Brown, Rich Herl, Sven Anderson, Zack Bennett and others.

My end at WVNN came swiftly and was marred with scandal! More on that later….we don’t know each other well enough for that topic yet!

I landed a job next at Clear Channel Radio in Huntsville. Home of FM Powerhouse and heritage country station WDRM. I was hired on as a board-op for the Toni and Gary show. From there i was promoted to Promotions Director. Taking charge of all events, giveaways, etc that our 4 station cluster had. Our cluster was a very dominant one, we have the number 1,3 and 4 stations in the market in the crucual 25-54 category according to Arbitron. I’ve always had a penchant for Web design, etc so when our Online Content Director left us i took his role upon me. So im a promotions/web geek now. So i spend my days organizing remotes, scheduling giveaways and making sure our websites are up to date. Its a fun job and i love the people i work with. I’ve never once thought about doing anything but radio. And that catches you up to today.

Now i love taking politics as much as the next guy (we used to do it quite frequently at VNN, i mean come on it was a news/talk station) so i’ll be doing that a little, but that is what Keith is here for, im going to be providing you, the viewer, with an inside look at the world of radio from my perspective along with a few other topics. Hope you enjoy!