Stu

	A fascination with broadcasting and weather began at an early age while growing up on farms and ranches.  Radio was the main source to the outside world, including  vital weather information.  Tours of radio stations and tinkering with old radio receivers led to an amateur radio license, KØQKM.  Eventually I had to sell the equipment to pay for college tuition and by that time, too, it was giving way to work at broadcast stations.
	Hanging around radio stations finally paid off when KCLO, Leavenworth, KS, hired me at 14 to do weekends.  But, to keep the job, I'd have to get an FCC First-Class radio operator's license because the station was increasing its power.   Although I got it by the deadline, they didn't think I would and hired a replacement.  So, at 16, I went down the road and landed a disc-jockey and newsman job at KBKC in Mission, KS.
	Upon high school graduation, the Kansas City ABC-TV affiliate, KMBC-TV, selected me as paid  studio intern doing everything from pushing an RCA TK-11 camera to directing.  Due to cutbacks, only one camera was used   for Romper Room, with the very pregnant Miss Francis, followed by the one hour Bea Johnson homemaker show.  Judging by the smile, I didn't have to work that gruelling shift the day the picture was taken.
	Television was okay, but, at the time, radio remained my main interest.  Although TV was eroding radio's audience, a  revolution was underway that revived radio broadcasting and I was lucky enough to jump on the bandwagon with the guy who started it all.  The guy was Todd Storz, the creator of the Top-40 format.  Although I didn't really realize it at the time, I was working for a legend at the legendary KOMA in Oklahoma City.
	Still to come, stories about the Beatles and their first U.S. tour.
	And the Beach Boys very first tour.  No big bus, only a station wagon with a trailer.
	Wow, have I been doing TV weather since the days of skinny ties?