This Is My Prayer

Dear God,

Please make it possible for me to cross paths (at least ONCE) with Robin Bertolucci or Corny Koehl. I am confident that they would be able to see past a 2:30 minute aircheck and would give me an opportunity to do great radio once again. Just when I thought that there were no intelligent, progressive thinking radio professionals left, I read the following quotes from the R&R Talk Radio Seminar:

“PDs are chicken shits about trying new things. Not always, but generally.”

-Robin Bertolucci

"Radio management generally has no vision, which puts programmers in a bad position because they are not given the time to develop a show and the talent. Programmers ought to have a minimum of three years to develop top flight talent. I've worked with both Suzy Orman and the Satellite Sisters, and neither were given enough time to develop their radio programs. Orman went on to become a huge hit on cable news television and a bestselling author and is now fielding offers to do more radio. Terrestrial radio is toxic."

-Corny Koehl
Executive Producer for Harpo Productions Oprah Radio

"What we are doing on weekends, that’s toxic. It’s fundamentally destructive. If we can get management to not make us focus on crunching numbers or why there are so many part-time board ops working on Tuesdays. We’ve just got to get on good programming and people will listen, it’s as simple as that.”
-Robin Bertolucci

“The most wasted thing on this planet is talent,” Salley observed in his criticism of programmers and management who rush to pigeonhole a performer. Do what Paul Harvey said: ’Close your eyes and listen. Managers need to look beyond the obvious and find a performer’s hidden talent and exploit it."

-John Salley

So in closing Lord, I really need a job and I'm confident that Robin or Corny would hire me. Can you make that happen? Please?

Amen.