Troy McCallum: The Classic Hits Boom

Troy McCallum had it all figured out. He listened to the episode
with Gruff Gushnowski and knew that doing the podcast in the car
would be a fitting place to talk radio. After all, he spends up
to 3 hours a day in the car listening to the radio on the way to
work as program director at Boom 97.3 in Toronto. Troy and I
spent about half of his commute home talking about his early days
in radio, his affinity for the Classic Hits format, programming
said format, and discussing two trips he took last year. One to
Philadelphia where he had his first breath of podcast air at
Podcast Movement 18, and a trip to New York where he got to meet
the legendary Broadway Bill Lee at WCBS-FM.


There's so much to learn about Troy and the roots of his
creativity which stem from performance, to acting and then
directing, to the collaborations of some Boom 97.3 mainstays like
97.3 Seconds and Behind the Vinyl. He also writes a lot of
imaging, and has a good relationship with station voice Joe
Cipriano, a must for any successful radio station.


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