Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: The WeatherJazz® Podcast
Episode: Episode #340: College Air Check From 1980
Description: I attended college in northeastern Vermont from 1977-1981. One of the things I enjoyed was being a part of the college's radio station, WWLR-FM, then only ten watts (now it's broadcasting at 3,000 watts, an increase that happened shortly after I graduated).
I was not new to the world of radio, however. My radio "career" started at age 15 when I started providing weekend weather forecasts on my hometown station in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1420-AM, WBSM, something I did faithfully until I started college in September of 1977.
One of my dearest "lifer friends," Bob Gilmore, is also...