{"id":1185,"date":"2009-09-03T00:05:11","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T07:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2009-09-04T00:25:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T07:25:28","slug":"radio-talent-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/radio-talent-coaching\/","title":{"rendered":"RADIO PROGRAM DIRECTORS: THE SECRET TO COACHING AIR TALENT"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is excerpted from Mike McVay’s<\/span> Radio Programming Secrets<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mike McVay<\/p><\/div>\n

I don’t think\u00a0 I was ever a great air talent. I was a disc jockey in Pittsburgh doing nights and afternoons, and then I was a morning man in Wheeling, West Virginia and Charleston, West Virginia.<\/p>\n

Then my programming outgrew my air talent, and I became a PD in larger markets than where I was on the air. I still enjoyed going on the air, and I’ve been on the air in Los Angeles, and I’ve done a lot of interviews, but I didn’t feel that I was the best air talent.<\/p>\n

When I got to Los Angeles I was all of 24 or 25 years old, and my morning man was Charlie Tuna<\/strong><\/span>. The afternoon guy was The Real Don Steele<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

I remember thinking, “How in the world am I going to coach these guys? How do I critique these guys?”\n\t\t