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"Once you get into radio, you never really get out."

A common mantra according to people in the business, but no truer words were ever spoken.

	Jason Smith

Almost like the mafia, once you get in, you're in. I began doing radio at Syracuse University as a freshman, and as a sophomore I hosted the morning show on the campus radio station. Getting up at 5:30 a.m. five days a week as a 17-year old wasn't the greatest thing in the world, but it was just so much fun I couldn't ever think of doing anything else. After I graduated I spent the summer applying for every radio job I saw, hired a headhunting agency and . . .

Nothing.

I couldn't get a job in Syracuse, Binghamton, Springfield, anywhere. So I interned in the marketing department of ESPN in New York City (my hometown) the summer after I graduated. When my internship was over, I was allowed to interview in Bristol, Conn. for a job as a production assistant for the TV network. Suffice it to say, I wasn't prepared for the in-depth sports grilling I got in my interview. ("Who was the best high school basketball player in the country last year?" "Who are your top five goalies in the NHL?" "Who is your least favorite ESPN SportsCenter anchor?") I mean, I was a huge sports fan but how was I supposed to know any of that? I spent the last four years without cable!

So suffice it to say they didn't call me for awhile.

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