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May 26, 2020
10 Questions with ... Billy DonnellyBRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS:
Former college radio DJ/personality - 90.5 WVUM - University of Miami; Former traffic anchor/producer - 610 WIOD and 940 WINZ - Miami/Ft. Lauderdale; Former writer/critic/columnist - InfamousKidd.com, Ain't It Cool News, This Is Infamous, JoBlo.com; Former podcast host - This Is Infamous Radio, Intelligent Wrestling Conversation; Former A/V manager/staff - Alamo Drafthouse; Current podcast host/executive producer - Getting Old Quickly
1. You've gone from radio to movie reviewing to podcasting. First, the radio part: Way back to the U or even earlier, what prompted you to go into radio? Why radio?
Growing up in the 80s and into the 90s, there was an easy connection with both radio and TV. Remember... those were the days when MTV actually played music videos. And so between the radio stations (having grown up in the NY/NJ area, you had everything) and TV, that's where you got to check out what was new, what was cool, what was next for you. However, radio was always more accessible. You could call up a radio station and request a song and actually get to talk to the person you were hearing on the air. How cool was that?! There was a personal connection between the audience and the broadcaster that was immediate, that didn't exist in any other form of media that I just loved. That aspect always drew me in. And then, of course, Howard Stern. The power he had in compelling an audience to listen to everything he had to say and hang on every word was incredible to me. He transformed radio. If you had any sort of interest in radio, you wanted to be the "next" Howard Stern, which was an impossible endeavor. There could only ever be one of him. That didn't stop many imitators from trying though.
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