I
started at "Y-106" (WHLY-FM
106.7) on weekends while still attending UCF (and working at WUCF's
"Stereo 90 FM" back when students actually operated the station
and provided all of the talent) while "Y-106" was still
operating out of Winter Garden. Hired by Rick
Stacey and Jim
Steel right after the station was changed to CHR. I was actually the
first person jock to do their shift from the new office in Altamonte Springs. I
handled a variety of weekend shifts then moved to the 10pm-2am shift as Midnight
Mike right before Greg
Wells came in to do overnights. I worked with Jeff and Bill, and Shadow
Stevens, Shay, Anne
Jeffries, Greg Fox, Bobby
Sharpe. We reached #1 in the market with this all star team. Alan
Rock was the GM. I eventually became News and Public Affairs
Director.
I was at "Y" when it became WCAT,
through the Stacey and Steal firings, the Jim Tillery and
Gerry Cagle
era. Then moved into the Promotions department and eventually left the station
to go to WHOO-AM (990)
to work for Bill Michaels doing the overnight shift.
My next stop was WKIS-AM
740 when Susquehanna (Broadcasting) - then (Guy) Gannett
owned the station. The days of Clive
Thomas, Gene
Burns, Peter
Rocchio, Carole
Nelson and Jim
Phillips and Wayne
Trout doing morning news and John
Anthony on Sports. I did weekend news, filled in for talk hosts and
producers, news and sports during the week, hosted a weekend talk program for a
time. I was there when the calls changed to WWNZ. I also worked a weekend
shift at "I-100" (WNFI-FM
99.9) in Ormond Beach when Bobby
Mitchell was the Program Director in the late 1980's. I left WWNZ
to pursue television in the form of a startup TV venture known as The
Tourist Channel here in Orlando and then in New Orleans.
For the past 5 years I have hosted syndicated programs including, "The Mike
Schiano Show", "InCharge Radio with Mike Schiano",
"America At Night" and "The
Money Minute with Mike". "The Money Minute"
is now syndicated nationally on over 325 radio stations and also broadcast in 40
countries via American Forces Radio Network and Soldiers Radio and TV
Network. Visit www.inchargeradio.com
to learn more. For the past 2 years I have been the primary fill-in for Pat
Campbell and Bud
Hedinger on WFLF-AM
540 here in Orlando.
|