National Radio Day: Jim Monaghan

I tell people all the time that my career in radio was an accident, but looking back, I see that it really wasn't.  Growing up, radio was magical to me.  On family trips to New York, it was the various AM transmitter towers sitting "somewhere in the swamps of Jersey" (to quote that Springsteen guy) that always fascinated me.  And I was the stereotypical kid with the transistor radio under the pillow at night listening with an earplug, trying to find the farthest radio station I could get (answer - it was in St. Louis and it was a Cardinals game).  Radio immediately transported to a completely different world via theater-of-the-mind.   Yet even with some sports experience in high school at our sister station WMTR, it wasn't until my junior year in college that I actually started thinking of radio as a career path.

What has followed since then was the great fortune to work at two heritage rock radio stations over the course of my career, including nearly 22 years here at WDHA.  It never ceases to amaze me that my voice might be the first one you hear in the morning when the alarm goes off.  The challenge each day to  make a connection with you as a listener is something I wouldn't trade for anything in the world.  Happy National Radio Day! -Jim