>> I would walk every day during my lunch break to a telephone booth
which doesn't exist anymore, and I would make calls
to radio stations and I would send tapes out.
And my first job was at a radio station in Trenton, New Jersey.
They paid me to read the news and it was called rip and read where the news would come
up on a Teleprompter paper almost like a typewriter if anyone knows what that is
and you would literally rip it off if you read it.
And the station was very poorly maintained.
He was off the air frequently.
After two, three, four weeks I wasn't getting paid.
From the got paid and again, when I got that paycheck,
and it was for $110 minus whatever the taxes were then.
It was something that was imprinted on my brain forever.
So a key moment for me in my career was I was a newscaster
at a radio station in Princeton, New Jersey.
And the broadcaster for the Princeton football and basketball teams--
Princeton University football and basketball was let go.
So because I had taken a job that allowed me to be in the right place the right time,
is able to go to the station manager and say hey, I can do this.
And he said okay.
Go ahead and do it because we need somebody.
The next game is coming up in a matter of a few days.
And that's how I made my transition into sports broadcasting and then
through a mutual friend I got a job doing indoor soccer at a TV channel
that also had 76ers broadcasts and that's how they got to know me
and eventually I made the transition there.
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