Powerhouse Radio: Rough Roads, Radiance, and Rebirth

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Powerhouse Radio: Rough Roads, Radiance, and Rebirth; My True AM - FM - Satellite and Streaming Journey is an authentic story about adversity, failure, and ultimate success. Eleven AM & FM outlets are some of the thrilling stops along the author's way toward big city commercial and public broadcasting job opportunities. What approach does it take to plant a flag into tough broadcasting turf How do you really carve out a place for yourself in the 'traditional' digital universe This memoir traces the steps walked along a personal tightrope between Black music radio, general market music radio, and news - talk radio from 1968 through 2017.

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Kingsley H. Smith is an accomplished radio program director and announcer who worked for NPR in Washington, DC and WHYY radio - television in Philadelphia. He graduated from Rutgers University with a B.S. in business and marketing. Kingsley has written blogs about music, history, and the software applications that he's created. Smith was a contributing monthly music writer for TeeBeeDee in San Francisco, CA. His first Black history e-book was published in 2011.