Howard @ WRNW

1977 Howard started his first professional job at radio station WRNW Briarcliff Manor, New York. The studio was extremely tiny, it has been described as a small bedroom. Howard said it was difficult because he said he was not a good straight announcer. His coworker described him as very quiet in the beginning towards the staff. Howard describes his first day as a disaster, he said he hit the board and it fell apart, he had to call the engineer who came in and yelled at him, Howard said he almost got fired that first day because he also called the program director and woke him up on New Year’s morning, his only day off! The music director said she used to get everyone a copy of new albums like the Ramones and Elvis Costello. She remembers when the song Alison came out she thought Howard would love it since he was so in love with his girl Alison, however when she played it for him he said “Oh no I can’t play that”.