Quick Announcements: Our Email List, Award Nomination, and Upcoming Guests

Quick Announcements: Our Email List, Award Nomination, and Upcoming Guests

Author: WJPZ April 14, 2023 Duration: 2:23

Hey, it's Jag.  Thanks as always for listening to the WJPZ at 50 podcast.  Couple quick notes for you.  As I mentioned, we are releasing new episodes every Monday.  Hopefully by now you've subscribed in Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice.  But if you'd like a quick email when we release new episodes, we can do that for you (and no, we won't spam you).  Just sign up at JAGinDetroit.com/WJPZat50 - or just click the link in today's show notes.

 

Quick shoutout to podcast guest Stacey Simms, who nominated us for a Quill podcast award.  If you wouldn't mind taking a moment to nominate WJPZ at 50 for best new podcast, there's also a link in our show notes for that.  And while you're there, if you want to help out a WJPZ family member, feel free to nominate Stacey's show, Diabetes Connections, under Health and Wellness.  You don't have to fill out every category, just the ones you want: https://www.quillpodcasting.com/qpa/quill-podcast-awards

 

 I'm really excited about our next few episodes.   THIS Monday, April 18th, we've got the current GM and PD of WJPZ - Grace Denton and Maddie Doolittle from the Class of 2024.  Hopefully you got to meet them in person at this year's Banquet and be as impressed by them as I was.   If not, you'll love hearing what great hands the station is in.   

 

Monday April 25th, ahead of the NFL Draft, we've got fantasy guru Matthew Berry, formerly of ESPN and now NBC Sports.  And Monday May 1st, we've got Rich Davis from the Class of 2001.  Between all the music stations he's on with SiriusXM, and his new gig at Fox Sports Radio, chances are you'll recognize his voice very quickly.

 

Finally, I want to talk about who qualifies for a guest on this show.  Because we are, as a group, so modest, I've had folks do a double-take when I've asked them to come on.  This isn't the top 50 or top 100 alumni of the radio station.  You don't have to have worked in radio professionally, or even media at all.   The goal of WJPZ at 50 is to chronicle the history of the world's greatest media classroom.  They only prerequisite for guests it that they worked at WJPZ.  If you know someone who'd like to be on the show, please have them reach out to me.  JAG@JAGinDetroit.com.

 

Thank you, once again, for your tremendous support of this project - whether you've streamed a couple episodes, or shared some kind words.  We are now over 6,200 downloads and still going strong.   

Want to be on the show? Email JAG at jag@jagpodcastproductions.com

Connect with the WJPZ Alumni Association: https://wjpzalumniassociation.org/


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For fifty years, the student-run airwaves of Syracuse University's WJPZ at 50 have been more than a radio station; they've been a launchpad. This oral history project captures that legacy not through dry facts, but through the voices that built it. Each episode is a conversation with a different alumnus, from the pioneers of the 1970s to recent graduates, tracing how their hands-on experience in what's called the "world's greatest media classroom" shaped careers in broadcasting and far beyond. You'll hear personal stories of late-night broadcasts, technical mishaps turned into triumphs, and the forging of lifelong bonds that created a unique professional family spanning generations. This podcast digs into the real, often messy, work of learning by doing, revealing how a campus station became an enduring institution. Tune in for a collection of fifty interviews that together form a living archive, celebrating the people, not just the programming, behind five decades of student-led radio.
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Tony Renda, Class of 1995 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

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Tracey Turner ('00), Lisa Phillips ('03), and Sarah Fox ('02) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 48:29
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"Kid" Michael Rock, Class of 1995 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 24:56
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Play-By-Play Man David Resnick, Class of 2010 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 32:38
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Final Program Update from Jag [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:13
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T-Bone! Programmer Mike Tierney, Class of '91 and '93 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:29
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Ethan Charlip, General Manager and Class of 2020 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:47
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