1-4-24 Nicole Sandler Show – 101 Ways to Rock Life with Dayna Steele

  https://media.zencastr.com/audio-files/5e0cc41aa9798f001400ff98/12b68cd3-d2e6-4cca-91d7-d1180ae82590.mp3     Dayna Steele is one of my heroes. She moved on from a very successful career in rock radio to basically take on the world. If nothing else, hearing from Dayna today should give you some new inspiration that you can do anything you set your mind to. From rocking the Houston TX airwaves to authoring over a dozen books, running for Congress (now for a second time), to writing and mounting a dark comedy play about navigating her mother's battle with Alzheimer's (running in Palm Springs this March) to spending a year on the road with [...]

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11-24-23 Nicole Sandler Show – Day After Thankgiving with Dave Matthews – Los Angeles 1994 & 1999)

    https://media.zencastr.com/audio-files/5e0cc41aa9798f001400ff98/1bfa47c9-7a4a-4948-80df-9c129e0d2e6e.mp3   Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel.net) usually hangs with us Friday, but is celebrating Thanksgiving in Ireland and will be back with us next Friday. So I'll be back live on Monday. Today, we'll enjoy a musical journey with Dave Matthews. I hosted him for his very first Los Angeles radio appearance on Dec 5, 1994. KSCA was the first - then the only station in LA playing "What Would You Say" Five years later at Channel 103.1 in Los Angeles he joined me again. That time we brought in a group of listeners for a really special live [...]

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11-13-23 Nicole Sandler Show — Saturday was Veterans Day

  View on Zencastr   Veterans Day this year fell on a Saturday. It always falls one week after my birthday, and 8 days before my father's. My dad never talked about his time in the Army. I always thought he was in the Korean War, but it turns out he was in WWII. I don't think he ever saw battle though. He was the emcee of the variety shows. Think Bob Hope one liners, but cornier. (I found binders of his material after he died). Anyway, I've been thinking about my dad recently, and what soldiers were fighting for [...]

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7-28-23 Nicole Sandler Show – What Happened to the Radio and Record Industry with Joel Denver

  View on Zencastr   Last week we took a deep dive into the world of TV and Movies with three of the SAG-AFTRA Executive Committee and Negotiating Committee members. Today we turn to the Radio and Record industries, where I spent the better part of my career. The average person knows that radio has changed... they likely listen less than they used to and noticed that radio has gotten more generic over the years. They also know that the record industry has evolved. From buying vinyl records to CDs to downloads, and does anyone buy full albums any more? [...]

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2-4-22 Nicole Sandler Show – Special KSCA Retrospective

Download here or click below to play, (or watch the video at the bottom of the page!) Today marks the 25th anniversary of the end of the best chapter of my professional life. KSCA fm 101.9 was sold - a victim of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (thanks Clinton) and the consolidation it begat. To acknowledge the date, I invited a bunch of former KSCA staffers and friends of the station to join in. Following the live show, I went into audio only mode, and shared the final two hours of the station too. I couldn't do that on YouTube, [...]

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10-6-21 Nicole Sandler Show – Yes, Right Wing Propaganda Media is Destroying Minds with Jen Senko

Download here or click below to play, (or watch the video at the bottom of the page!)   That's not hyperbole, it's a fact and something must be done about it. Our guest today is Jen Senko, writer/director of the film, The Brainwashing of My Dad that was released in 2016. Yesterday, the book, The Brainwashing of My Dad: How the Rise of Right-Wing Media Changed a Father and Divided Our Nation-- And How We Can Fight Back was officially released, and the timing is perfect because things are getting worse. I hope you'll listen to this interview, read the [...]

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7-30-21 Nicole Sandler Show – 40 Years After MTV’s Launch with Mark Goodman

Download here or click below to play, (or watch the video at the bottom of the page!)   Today, after a jam packed news update at the start of the show, we'll forego the politics and remember the cultural shift that occurred 40 years ago this Sunday. On Aug 1, 1981, MTV premiered. I remember it clearly. So does Mark Goodman. Mark Goodman was one of the original five VJs on the first ever Music Television channel.These days he co- hosts a talk show about music, "Debatable" on Sirius XM- Volume Channel 106. He joins me to talk about that [...]

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6-11-21 Nicole Sandler Show – Radio Daze– Reconnecting with Mark Thompson

Download here or click below to play, (or watch the video at the bottom of the page!)     As usual, we begin the show with a look at the latest news with a bit of snark and some outrage. Then we're going to change direction. In 1990, I joined KLOS in Los Angeles as producer of the Mark & Brian Show. For the next four years, I worked with Mark Thompson and Brian Phelps as their producer, helping propel the show to #1 in Los Angeles. It was the most fun I've had in a job, and also the [...]

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2-19-21 Nicole Sandler Show – Thank Dog It’s Friday

Download here or click below to play, (or watch the video at the bottom of the page!)   If I didn't have a guest booked for today's show, I would have taken the day off. American society is irredeemably broken and I fear we long ago passed the point of no return. I mourn the medium I fell in love with decades ago and devoted my adult life to. It's gone. An anachronism. So, I'll try to move on, and celebrate the fact that I had some wonderful years in radio before the powers that be destroyed it. At least [...]

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2-17-21 Nicole Sandler Show – Radio’s Day of Reckoning and About that Student Loan Debt

Download here or click below to play, (or watch the video at the bottom of the page!)   I'm a radio veteran. My first radio job was in college at the University of South Florida in 1978. I never looked back, but I did take some detours in my chosen profession. Many of those detours could be traced back to one ugly, despicable excuse for a human being. Rush Limbaugh died today. I have a few things to say about the cretin and his legacy. It wasn't about politics. One of my first radio jobs was Producer of the Bob [...]

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