Alan Cross relates how radio changed his life as a kid and how he ended up working in the #1 market in Canada – a very long way from where he started out in Manitoba.
 
It started with a small transistor radio his grandmother gave him as a gift and progressed to a first job at a college station no one could really hear.
 
He kept moving on up from there. Not that he loved every place he worked, including one at which he just started.
 
“On day 20, I got a phone call from the program director at an oddly progressive rock station called KX-96 in Brandon, Man. I’d unsuccessfully applied for a job back in the spring and had forgotten about that particular rejection. But now he was on the phone offering me full-time work for the princely sum of $845 a month, a big step up from the $825 I was getting in Kenora.
 
I left town so fast and with so little notice that my landlord sent the sheriff after me for non-payment of rent.”
 
It’s an old article from 2021, but still well worth a read.       
 
Alan Cross: Reflecting on 40 years in the radio business