Living in the Past Two
By Norm Seeley | July 1, 2009
The promotion department at KOOL AM?FM and TV was great. The newspapers in Phoenix at least once a month had great ads promoting the radio stations. The promo above is for the time I was on the FM.
The studios had all RCA Equipment from the Microphone, turntables (16 inch models), to the Tape Decks. The only equipment not RCA was the Cart Machines, they were ATC. (Really important information)
If my memory service me correctly, I had been doing afternoons on the AM and something bothered me, and I wanted to leave. Don’t remember what it was, but I asked to be relieved of all the duties that went with doing the AM afternoon drive and being the Music Director and Assistant PD.
I think I wanted just to return to the 7-12 midnight shift on the AM, as well as doing traffic in the afternoon from a news vehicle which I had started out doing. At least that what I think I wanted as I think back to those days.
The radio management was just taking the FM from an automated background station to a contemporary music station with live jocks and they asked me to work afternoons.
I agreed to move to the FM because for the first time in my radio career, I only had to work Monday through Friday.
With a young family, it gave me more time to be with them.
Overall my experience with KOOL was positive.
I learned a lot.
Became a top notch interviewer, learning to listen rather than interject my thoughts into an interview. got to report traffic from the field live and got to be the Music Director and Assistant PD as well as move from evenings to afternoons on the AM then afternoons on the FM.
I remember that I enjoyed being on the air at KOOL AM as well as the FM. My skills as an announcer (jock) reached their peak and my God given talents and my voice were put to very good use.
People always ask if I miss being on the air.
How do you think I would respond?
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Looking for HEAT?
By Norm Seeley | June 30, 2009
This is not the official temperature in Scottsdale, Arizona but it gives you an idea as to what it has been like here the past two week.
In a word.
H O T !!!!!!!!!
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Living in my Past.
By Norm Seeley | June 30, 2009
Today, since I don’t have wheels, it was a stay at home day, so I thought why not clean the closet in my office.
My Past I guess has been crying out: “Find us again, Look at us…we miss you !”
Right off the bat I found over 40 some letters from listeners up in Las Vegas, where I was the News Director for KENO. The letters were thanking me for this or that, telling me that I did a good job on reporting this situation or had I not included them on a Public Service program, their even would have failed. Even one from the head of the FBI office on his retirement, thanking me for the outstanding job I had done when covering stories that involved his office.
I have to tell you, I remember getting that letter, and it meant a great deal then, and it’s nice to relive that moment. I was not expecting his letter at all.
I found instructions that I had put together on how to operate the news room equipment, and how to put together a news cast. Back in those days, my memory was good enough that I didn’t need such instructions, but I do remember that there were times when other people filled in when I was out of town or on vacation. I must have written them then.
I also found a lot of stuff from my days at KRUX here in metro Phoenix….including a picture with Leslie Gore at the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.
Lesley Gore, Frank Lefler Mercury Records, and KRUX Good Guy Norm Seeley September 1966
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Are American Taxpayers being paid back?
By Norm Seeley | June 30, 2009
I think we as American Taxpayers need to know just where the money that was to be returned to us is going. Don’t you?
(Click above and read more.)
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This is only a test.
By Norm Seeley | June 28, 2009
I think it’s about time that you take a test. I want to see just how smart my viewers are.
Please tell me in the comment section, what the following words or letters stand for. I am going to keep it short and to the point. Just ten questions. Each one will contain a word or letters and it’s your job to tell me in the comment section what they stand for or what they are. You don’t have to be wordy, to the point, but make sure that you tell me what they are or stand for. Now that’s really not that difficult is it? Below you will find ten things and I want to know what they are. Tell me what are the following, HD, Digital, Analog, M O S Imagers, PIN attenuator, RFI, Coca Cola, ephedra , Backfield, Caregiver. There they are, what are they?
As I have been putting together this list for today’s test, I have also been thinking should I have a prize of some sort should some one out there be able to tell me what each word, letter combo stands for? Good Question.
But even though I have the answer to all ten, I haven’t come up with the answer for that one.
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Electric Ranges.
By Norm Seeley | June 28, 2009
To me I have always like houses that had Electric Ranges in the Kitchens.
Oh yes I have lived in a couple over the years that had gas stoves, but if it were up to me, it would be an electric stove. I have to admit that I am not a great cook. I am aware that cooking with gas is preferred by many “cooks”, but I just like the way an electric stove top looks. I like that fact that there is no flame licking at the bottom of the pots and pans.
To the true sense of the word, with a gas flame, you would have fat burners right there in the kitchen. With an electric burner, you would not be able to see it.
Must be the looks that the rings of an electric stove top has that is pleasing to me. I can’t think of anything else.
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Norm on a Sunday Afternoon.
By Norm Seeley | June 28, 2009
This is the next to the last day of June for this year.
So far it’s been nice, have enjoyed spending it with my wife doing the things that we normally do on Sunday.
Now that I’m back in the house I have been working as I normally do on Sunday burning and printing a CD for a church in California. I do this almost every Sunday of the year. Keeps me out of trouble Sunday afternoon. At least that’s a plus for me.
I’m so do at doing this, and have been doing it so long, the “work” part of it comes like second nature to me and my mind really doesn’t have to concentrate on the actual work that I’m doing. It can wonder. Today it’s been thinking about the articles that I saw back in the early 50s. in Popular Science about trucks that were to be built with sleeping quarters, kitchens, bathrooms and the like to be used for “camping on the open road”. I think this was even before they were called RV.
Even as I finish the work on producing the master CD, I can remember in my minds eye, the picture of the vehicle with the driver and passenger sitting way up off the ground in the front. Looking almost like the front of a 747, a few years before it was even thought of on a drawing board.
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Birthday Approaching.
By Norm Seeley | June 28, 2009
Just think in a couple of days, 7 to be exact, the US will be celebrating a birthday.
July 4th, 1776 to July 4th, 2009.
Two Hundred, thirty-three years of freedom and growth. Unprecedented in the history of the world. No other country has done so much in such a short period of time.
With the history of our country in mind, makes one want to get up and do something.
Build something, start a business, help someone.
Even just do something around the house.
Source of supplies might be found at wholesale liquidators . No harm in at least looking.
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Fun Day.
By Norm Seeley | June 27, 2009
My wife and I had a fun day today. Actually we have a lot of fun days one right after another. There are weeks that it’s much the same stuff, but others it’s something new every single day. I sometimes liken myself to being a Diamond Miner, surrounded by loose diamonds .
Why? Cause I just consider myself and my wife to have a great life.
Today? Different? Yes and No. While part of what we did was more or less the same, part was different.
A typical day is getting up, working around the house, then out to lunch then back to the house. Some days, after lunch will will go shopping for this or that, food, items for the house, you name it we’ll do it. Just really depends on what is needed. If we need food, that’s what we go shopping for. If it’s something for the house, then that is what we go looking, shopping for.
Once back in the house we go our separate ways, she has things she does and I have stuff to do myself.
What makes today different? We went off to lunch but this time it was out in Gilbert. A good 35 to 40 minutes away, at least the way I drove today. We had been invited to go to Red Robin during, a “Training Day”, as they get ready to open a new restaurant here in the valley. Now we go to RR a lot, nice place, nice food, nice people. But today, we invited some new friends and that made it even more fun.
I think we got a long well with our new friends and the Red Robin food sure helped out. As did our server Ryan. Very Nice and he had done his home work and knew just how to treat our table.
Considering all else that is going on these days, it was nice to have a fun day to fill my mind for a couple more.
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Higher Energy Bills
By Norm Seeley | June 26, 2009
Those in the White House and those on the left in Washington, do not care a bit about the American Taxpayer. To them you and I are only “Cash Cows” to be milked and milked and milked until we go dry.
HR 2454 is a good example of that. You and I will see high energy bills and higher taxes and little or nothing will be done to “Save the Planet”.
Yesterday, I emailed my representative and also called his office. I expressed my hope that he would stand up for those who elected him and vote against this measure .
Without my knowledge, my wife did the same.
This is something that we all need to do, daily if we have to, to let those, and especially on the left know that we have had enough of the waste full, down right stupid spending of the Obama Administration.
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