About Me

Name:Norm Seeley Jr.

Location: Scottsdale, Arizona

Background: 30 years as a Broadcaster in Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, then back to Arizona.

In radio I did almost everything you could at a station, short of engineering. DJ, News Person, News Director, Music Director, Program Director.

Started in the Denver metro area in the early 60s.  I spent time on the air as a Disc Jockey, but I also worked in the news room where I  also was assigned to report from the field in one of the station’s two-way equipped vehicles.

I was a reporter for almost a year on a feature called “Police Beat” at another Denver Radio Station.  Each evening, from 6 till after midnight, I would report from the streets of Denver about what was going on. It was a good place to learn how to report the news. My reports were done live over a two-way radio several times an hour.  I would report on what ever was going on.  The vehicle had a two-way to the station, and a police monitor so I could hear the police traffic. I would hear a call and I would go to the scene and file a live report. I learned how to report from notes that I would take after arriving on the scene. I many times, I would hear a call, and actually arrive before the squad cars.

One time a woman was knifed right in front of my car and I was the one who stopped the bleeding and radioed for medical assistance.   Had I not been there, had I not known what to do, she might have bleed to death.

I always had very high ratings in the time periods I was the DJ.

In 1965, I sent a tape to the top rock station in Phoenix and landed a job doing the 7 to Midnight shift.  I later moved to the 9 to Noon shift and became the station’s Assistant Program Director and Music Director.   That ended about 2 years later with new management, I then went to the CBS affiliate for almost 10 years. before going up to Las Vegas.

When I started, I did every shift there was and is.

You name it, I did it.

Worked all nights, mornings, afternoons, evenings, and weekends.

In the markets where they rated stations, I always did well in the different time periods

I find it interesting when the time period that I was on the air is brought up for here in Phoenix in local publications, several who were rated lower than I was, are mentioned, my name is never brought up, even though I had higher ratings and more listeners.

Fame is so fleeting!

Also helped the Red Cross as their Public Information person, as well as the County Civil Defense Agency there in Las Vegas.

What I did in Television?

Worked as a news reporter for a TV station in Las Vegas.  I also did the station breaks. That took all of maybe 30 minutes a day. I received over a Grand a week in addition to what I earned as a News reporter just for doing the breaks.   Sorry that ended.

Fed almost monthly clips to the network. The “reports” were maybe 1-1/2 minutes long, the checks of $500.00 were always nice. Did share it with my cameraman, he did the work, I was just the pretty face and voice.

After 6 to 8 months, I was promoted to Station News Anchor.

I would always rewrite the news from the wire as well as the intros provided by the reporters so it would sound like the way I spoke and would not just repeat the first few sentences of the story.

Although I am not an engineer, I set up the automation system for a station here in Arizona. It’s easy if you can read and follow instructions in a manual.

More than 20 years as a Small Business owner.

In addition to the broadcasting ran different businesses, Two-way radio sales and service, Rental of wheelchair vans, and Video production company. Each very different.

Have a Amateur Radio license.

I also am a reporter and every once in awhile am the Anchor for Amateur Radio Newsline.  You can find a link on my blog page.  It’s an online service that features news about Amateur Radio each week on the internet.

I have always been a Christian.

I”m retired now,  and live very happily with my wife and two cats.