Skeery JonesExecutive Producer, Elvis Duran and the Morning Show/On-Air Talent/Co-Host, The Brooklyn Boys and Speaking Volumes podcastsStation:
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March 19, 2019
10 Questions with ... Skeery JonesBRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS:
Started my career at WBCR, Brooklyn College Radio in 1992 and interned for 101.1 WCBS-FM in NYC in 1994. Got hired as a phone operator for Elvis Duran while he was doing afternoons on Z100 in 1995. Moved to Elvis, Elliot & the Z Morning Zoo at its inception as assistant producer in 1996. Got promoted to producer, then executive producer as Elvis Duran & The Morning Show rolled out nationally over the course of the next 23 years.
1. The standard question: How and why did you get into radio? What was it about radio that attracted you to it as a career?
I was always enamored with radio’s ability to connect 1:1 with its listeners. It’s a relationship you can’t get anywhere else. I enjoyed its local focus, entertaining people, putting smiles on faces, and giving them something to reflect on. Radio also has the power to help and heal, and the intimate feedback loop of communication between hosts and the listener is unique. You say something; You get INSTANT phone calls, email, tweets, etc as a reaction to what you just said. You don’t get that with TV, film, or prerecorded content. Radio can be raw, real, honest and unrehearsed -- and that’s what originally lured me in.
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