PEORIA, Ill. – Many of us who have been in radio for some period of time remember how we got in to it – and, how people tried to talk us out of it.
For Randy Rundle at our station Mix 106.9, it was that way. He started in radio in LaSalle-Peru 52 years ago, asked as a teenager if he wanted a job.
But, could he do it long-term?
“I was going to go to the University of Illinois and study law,” Rundle told WMBD’s Greg and Dan. “My parents said ‘You’re just messing with this stuff. You can’t possibly make a living out of this. How can you possibly get paid for doing what you do?’ My dad could never understand that.”
Rundle retires Friday after decades at WSWT. He told WMBD’s Greg and Dan it is still, in his words, weird to think about retirement, but he is looking at things he can still do.
“I would like to expand my voiceover business, and I do that. I do a lot of the ‘Brought to you by’s’ and other stuff all over the place, and do commercials, and what have you,” said Rundle. “I have a couple of other, kind of, irons in the fire that I’m thinking about also taking advantage of.”
Rundle’s morning show co-host, Shelli Dankoff, is also departing the station to focus on her day job in media relations with OSF HealthCare.
Thank you, Randy, for all you’ve done for us at Midwest Communications, and all you’ve done to help make radio, and working in it, great.
