{"id":2547,"date":"2017-07-15T23:51:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T03:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/?page_id=2547"},"modified":"2022-08-21T19:28:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T23:28:20","slug":"jerry-halasz-thursday-10-am-to-2-pm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/?page_id=2547","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Halasz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Some say I was vaccinated with phonograph needle.\u00a0 As far back as I can remember,\u00a0 I always wanted to be on the radio.\u00a0 When I was a little kid, my grandparents had a big console radio in their living room and I used to listen to our local announcers on that radio.\u00a0 I vowed, “someday my voice is going to come out of that thing” \u00a0and sure enough it did as I was an announcer at the high school FM station.\u00a0 Later on I was an announcer and DJ at one of the commercial stations in South Bend, Indiana where I grew up.\u00a0 ( some say I never grew up )\u00a0 from there I worked at some of the Chicago suburban stations where I Emceed lots of record hops & concerts in Joliet, Illinois.\u00a0 Jim Sohns of the “Shadows of Knight” was a regular visitor to my show.\u00a0 His big hit was “Gloria” which is on the oldies 97.3 playlist.\u00a0 I also Emceed a hugh show with “Sam the Sham” in Joliet.\u00a0 From there I worked in Dekalb, Illinois and did remotes from the dorms and fraternities and sororities on the campus of Northern Illinois University.\u00a0 In 1972 I left radio for the waste hauling and recycling business.\u00a0 I was transferred to Dayton to become sales manager of one of the huge national waste hauling firms.\u00a0 I called on WING to secure their business and the program director heard me speaking with the chief engineer and said, “my you have a pleasant voice…are you available weekends?” \u00a0I finally retired and now…here I am at oldies 97.3 each Thursday from 10am to 2pm playing the hits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some say I was vaccinated with phonograph needle.\u00a0 As far back as I can remember,\u00a0 I always wanted to be on the radio.\u00a0 When I was a little kid, my grandparents had a big console radio in their living room and I used to listen to our local announcers on that radio.\u00a0 I vowed, “someday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2547","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3729,"href":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2547\/revisions\/3729"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daytonoldies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}