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Published May 21, 2013
When I first started in Milwaukee radio I worked the overnight shift at Lazer 103. On the drive to my midnight gig, I would attempt to loosen up my voice by talking to myself in the car or even reading street signs out loud.
Published May 15, 2013
My name is Brian Kramp. Here's the real story. This is first installment of The Kramp Cast. Listen each week as I bring quality broadcasting back to your ears in a weekly podcast.
Published May 7, 2013
Here is a list of Milwaukee and other Wisconsin winners in the 2012 Wisconsin Broadcasters Association awards.
Published April 4, 2013
Michelle Rutkowski is the person you can thank (or blame) for the music you hear on FM 102.1. As music director, she's constantly scouting out new music and working with record labels to pick the station's lineup. And, because FM102.1 isn't affiliated with other alternative stations around the country, Rutkowski selects songs tailored for Milwaukee listeners. But Rutkowski is also a mid-day DJ. We caught up with her in this latest Milwaukee Talks.
Published March 18, 2013
In November, OnMilwaukee.com reported that 88Nine Radio Milwaukee (88.9 FM) would most likely move to a new location in the Fifth Ward and it was officially announced today that it will happen. A new Stone Creek Cafe will open on the ground floor.
Published Jan. 30, 2013
Mitch Teich, the executive producer of WUWM's "Lake Effect," isn't a native Milwaukeean. In fact, he's traveled around the country building his radio resume, but for the past seven years, he's called Wisconsin his home. And it shows. The 43-year-old host of the local interview show has taken the time to become an expert in the issues he covers on "Lake Effect." Teich says his job is like taking a midterm exam on a different topic every day.
Published Nov. 20, 2012
WYMS-FM 88.9, known as "RadioMilwaukee," hopes to be in a new space by the end of the summer or early fall of 2013.
Published Nov. 20, 2012
Just like what you get on the days after the Thanksgiving meal, I offer this grouping of TV and radio leftovers.
Published Sept. 24, 2012
I don't know what to make of Billie Joe Armstrong's latest meltdown. Is it just another rock n' roll moment, par for the course at a concert like this? The tantrum of a spoiled artist? Is a talented musician entitled or even expected to act like this? And if he didn't, what would we all talk about?
Published Sept. 6, 2012
If you follow the local arts community, listen to Dave and Carole on WKLH-FM 96.5 or watch Milwaukee and Wisconsin Public Television, then chances are you know who John McGivern is. His latest venture has him traversing across the state, profiling communities in a half-hour program called "Around the Corner with John McGivern."
Published Aug. 16, 2012
For those of us with children in our lives, your kids or someone else's, you know how incredibly stressful this time of year can be. The summer winds down and it is time to get the little ones ready to go back to school.
Published Aug. 15, 2012
My iPod adapter is busted, and I'm listening to too much radio. Here are four songs that I'm hating on right now.
Published July 9, 2012
I'm a firm believer that even in a lean period (sure, that's an Orange Juice reference, why not?), there's always great music to be found. Sometimes you just have to look a little harder for it. Thanks to my go-to record shops - Zig-Zag, Bleecker Bob's and others in my old town and Atomic, Earwaves and Rush-Mor in my current one - I was able to easily get the best of the best in the 1980s. I'll play some of the music I mined in those places Wednesday night on WMSE.
Published July 4, 2012
For 620 WTMJ news reporter Dan O'Donnell, his job affords the opportunity and chore of covering a wide range of stories. O'Donnell a national nod for his work telling a story that involved the charity work of the Brewers, and of a family dealing with a devastating loss.
Published June 28, 2012
It's the world's largest music festival, it brings out hundreds of thousands of people, and it's located on the lakefront - Summerfest is a promotions dream for area radio and TV stations and all media outlets.
