Radio is in my blood. My mother played the radio for me while I laid in my cradle as a baby. When she put on the “beautiful music” station, I would cry. But, when she switched on the R&B station, I smiled and let it lull me to sleep. I loved radio so much, I built my own illegal station when I was 11 years old. When I turned 18, I got my FCC license. At age 19, I had a job building a new radio station from the ground up in suburban Cleveland, Ohio. I ended up doing the evening shift on that station. I spent the next dozen years moving back and forth from disc jockey to engineer. In 1983, I wrote a music scheduling system, MusicMaster, that is now used by tens of thousands of stations all over the world.