Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Tag: radio

Connecting through the ether

I miss live, local radio, and the feeling of intimate connectedness it brought.

10 January 2023
Goodbye to 1070 AM in Indianapolis

For many years, one of the most popular radio stations in central Indiana broadcast over 1070 AM. WIBC was what used to be called a “full service” station, playing “middle of the road” music with big personality disk jockeys and news every hour on the hour. In central Indiana, everybody listened to WIBC at least…

4 August 2021
Sometimes wrong things just happen to people who don’t deserve it

The story of how one man’s criminal sexual behavior wreaked havoc in lives beyond just his victims.

17 August 2020
Interviewed on the radio about the Michigan Road

Hear my interview about the Michigan Road from radio station WKVI.

29 July 2020
Briefly back on the “radio”

I got to help relaunch WMHD, the (now online) radio station of my alma mater.

25 May 2020
A lifetime of hobbies

Looking back at the hobbies I’ve had in my lifetime.

21 February 2020
Playing by radio’s rules

When I was in my 20s, I worked part-time for a radio station. Read how the full-time staff put me firmly in my place, live on the air.

9 March 2018
Everybody wants to know where Jimmy has gone

I was a radio disk jockey half my life ago, in the early 1990s, when radio still mattered. My last shift was 23 years ago and this is its story.

4 September 2017
Knowing when to quit

I think our bodies and minds just know when it’s time to quit something we’re doing. But often it’s hard to honor that.

3 March 2017
The Electric Breakfast

I was the morning DJ on WMHD in the early 90s, and that experience was much like blogging is for me now.

17 February 2017
Breaking the news of Space Shuttle Challenger

It was my generation’s “I remember where I was when I heard the news” moment: the day Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in the air after launch. It happened 30 years ago today. My “where was I” story is a little unusual — I was on the radio, and I broke the news to our listeners. That makes…

28 January 2016
Connecting through the ether

I miss radio, the kind where I could put on a pot of coffee on a rainy and quiet Sunday afternoon and be kept company by some pleasant music and a live disk jockey. Time was, most towns had such a station. It played a variety of middle-of-the-road soft pop and standards. You could imagine the DJ…

23 November 2015