How a radio should sound these days?

I got really bored when listening the romanian radio stations in the past months... Except one voice that I would listen to, no matter what radio will host and whatever the show... Which is, of course, that of Denis Ciulinaru, currently hosting the morning show on National FM. Even if the station is somehow one from the crowd, even if the shows sounds common and are...
Besides that, I somehow started listening the stations from US and I have one station that is worth listening to no matter the difference of time zone and the difference of culture. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is B96 – CBS radio station from Chicago. Whenever I hear “B96- WBBMFM radio” I am just happy... It is true that somehow I am bonded to this radio station in particular from a visit payed to the US, but no matter the spiritual bonding, these guys are something.
Just listen to them on b96.com .It’s worth it!

I miss the radio...

It was the beginning of September when I got a call from a friend, asking me if I want to spend my winter vacation at his place. Besides going there and enjoy a truly different atmosphere, he also said he would like to have me in his radio show. That’s because the show he was putting on air was on a concept we did together some years ago... At first I yelled, since I haven’t done that in the last years. After a few moments of giving it some thought, I started saying it wasn’t such a bad idea after all.
Got there, found my favorite radio mixer in the world, a Mackie, found the liberty of playing whatever I want without concerning about the money spent on royalties.
Still, something wasn’t feeling right... After a few sound checks, I wasn’t able to recognize my own voice. I was aware that after so many years my voice is different, but it didn’t sound like I was expecting. It was a Shure SM7B microphone and I was used to the standard SM58. There was two solutions: trying to accommodate my voice and put some inflexion into it in a way that would sound like it should or getting instantly a SM58, which I did. Ha-ha. SM58 being in place, everything sounded like it should.
I shouldn’t have done on air time. Doing it for some days made me realize but once you get to do it you always want to do it. Now I miss all that stuff, being on air and everything, the fever you’re experiencing when talking, playing music, having listeners on air and so on.
I mostly feel that what’s missing is the morning air show. God, I want it back...