On Saturday (Nov. 16), WRCT-FM will pre-empt our show for “Anatomy of the Ear,” and I’m using that as an excuse to take a rare week off.
Instead of a new show, I’m dipping into my archive of old “Radio 9” broadcasts going back 20 years to bring you a rerun from November 2004. I haven’t heard this show myself since it originally aired, so it will be interesting to find out just how bad I was — and to compare it to more recent shows to see if I’ve ever gotten any better.
I think the show’s gotten a lot better; in 2004, I hadn’t yet worked in commercial radio and gotten a lot of additional training from the late Clarke Ingram. So this could be a painful thing to listen to.
Anyway, tune into Tube City Online Radio from 12 to 3 p.m. (Eastern U.S. time) Saturday and hear for yourself. Again: Don’t look for us on WRCT.
Next Saturday (Nov. 23), we’ll be live in Downtown McKeesport at a pop-up holiday market at the corner of Fifth and Walnut streets. McKeesport’s annual Salute to Santa parade will be from 11 a.m. to 12 noon, and we’ll be going live from the pop-up market right after that. That show, good Lord willing, will air both on Tube City Online Radio and WRCT.