I STILL Love Radio

The late, great radio feature Record Bin Roulette has been off the air for awhile, but stalwart producer/hosts John Kessler and John Maynard are still digging in the vinyl trenches and turning...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2014/05/record-bin-roulette.html

This piece about the amazing SPARK Museum in Bellingham, WA will premiere on PBS affiliate KCTS 9 in Seattle on Monday, April 28 at 10 pm. Special thanks to John Jenkins and Tana Granack for al...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2014/04/spark-museum-in-bellingham-wa.html

It was my distinct pleasure to work with Steve Scher of Seattle's NPR affiliate KUOW-FM to produce this "essay" for the KCTS arts and culture program PIE . The vision, voice and narration ...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2014/03/kuow-fms-steve-scher-on-kcts-9-seattle.html

Here's a profile of Stuart McLean of CBC Radio's The Vinyl Cafe , produced by me for Seattle PBS affiliate KCTS 9 .

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2014/01/stuart-mclean-of-cbcs-vinyl-cafe.html

For those of us who write for (or who have written for) both television and radio, the following short chapter ('NOTE ON TELEVISION') from the 1938 book, Practical Radio Writing by Seymour & Ma...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2014/01/note-on-television-from-1938.html

Now that the holidays have come and gone, I'm finally getting around to posting online audio of the December 13, 2013 live broadcast of Seattle Radio Theatre's production of It's A Wonderful Lif...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2014/01/seattle-radio-theatre-on-kiro-radio-973.html

The I STILL Love Radio cubicles were all abuzz this week as editor Feliks Banel (who loves writing about himself in the third person!) appeared on the second episode of the new inside-the-indus...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2013/05/radio-stuff-podcast.html

Here's a short audio piece prepared in honor of the 75th anniversary of the ground-breaking CBS broadcast of live reaction from European capitals to the Nazi invasion of Austria:

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2013/03/75th-anniversary-of-radio-round-up.html

Here (below) is a short video piece I produced last month for the SEATTLE CHANNEL , profiling Frank P. Barrow, onetime program director and on-air personality for Seattle soul radio station KYAC....

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2013/03/late-great-seattle-soul-station-kyac.html

National Broadcasting Company President Niles Trammell gave the Commencement Address at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana on May 31, 1942. Mr. Trammell's address was entitled "Broa...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2013/02/broadcasting-for-victory-and-peace-nbcs.html

A recent addition to the ISLR Library is the 1943 United Press Radio News Style Book by Phil Newsom (dust sleeve pictured). This short little tome is a relic from World War II, the early day...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2013/01/radio-feature-writing-circa-1943-u-p.html

We've been cleaning off the I STILL LOVE RADIO bookshelves over the summer, kicking up clouds of dust and coming up with a few more titles worthy of having their dustjackets put on display. D...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-few-more-radio-remainders.html

In honor of the 2012 London Olympics and all those behind-the-scenes stories about the preparations required to properly cover the Games on TV and the web, we present this humble essay, called...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2012/08/broadcasting-london-olympic-games-in.html

How many millions of times each day does a writer somewhere begin a blog post with some variation of, "it's been too long since I've written anything here"? For everyone's sake (mostly mine), I...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2012/07/july-2012-round-up.html

In sorting through some old possessions a few weeks ago, I came across the baseball card for Los Angeles Dodgers' pitcher Clem Labine (pictured at left). I bought this card (actually, my dad b...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2012/03/clem-labine-vs-clem-labine.html

I made this aircheck almost 23 years ago. I was living in Boston, and was amazed to hear a 90-minute show devoted to my hometown of Seattle's burgeoning music scene. I pressed "record" on my boom...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2012/01/can-you-identify-mystery-dj-from-wmbr.html

The New York Times yesterday published a Carpetbagger blog post about the lengths to which filmmakers went to create specialized World War I sound effects for the recently released movie War...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2012/01/sound-effects-for-war-horse.html

There's no other way to describe this audio-only YouTube clip. It is truly a Radio Geek New Year's Eve Delight (and received via shortwave, no less). I recorded it myself in the early morning hou...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2011/12/radio-geek-new-years-eve-delight.html

It's been a busy autumn, but here's a quick round-up of recent radio and radio history-related happenings: 1. Norman Corwin RIP. I wrote a short post for the Aircheck Blog of the Western Stat...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2011/11/november-radio-round-up.html

Here's a short post linking to a New York Times piece from over the weekend about Yankees' radio man John Sterling (photo from NYT). Stories about radio personalities are so rare in the old-s...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2011/10/profile-of-yankees-radio-man-john.html

Here are four quick items: 1. For fascinating live and local coverage of the impending arrival of Hurricane Irene, I'm particularly enjoying the live stream of WCBS 880 AM from New York Cit...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2011/08/late-summer-radio-round-up.html

Hi, radio. Feliks Banel, editor of I STILL LOVE RADIO here. I wanted to let you know, before you hear it from someone else, that I do still love you, but just not in the same way. The truth is, I...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-still-love-radio-but-i-now-love-other.html

I've written about 1944 West Coast D-Day radio coverage a few times in the past in these I STILL LOVE RADIO posts: Bob Hope Sat Up All Night By The Radio (JULY 2009) NBC Radio Coverage of D-D...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2011/06/west-coast-d-day-radio-round-up.html

Here's a very short post with links to three recent pieces for other sites: 1. How the 2001 Nisqually Quake rocked LIVE RADIO in Seattle (for the SeattlePI.com), including in-studio video re-en...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2011/03/radio-earthquakes-rural-basketball-less.html

This is a short post to commend the BBC for putting radio to work doing what it does best in its coverage of the developing situation in Egypt: live reports from journalists on the scene, exper...

http://istillloveradio.blogspot.com/2011/02/bbc-world-service-coverage-of-egypt.html