She’s been a familiar face on radio conference platforms around the World for decades, commanding attentive audiences as she shares the secrets of ‘powerful radio’.
In this hour of #radiomoments ‘Conversations’, Valerie Geller, who counsels authentic self-revelation from broadcasters, opens up about her own life.
She tells of her early experiences as a welcome young caller on a phone-in on her local Los Angeles station, earning her own on-air shifts before moving around the US, speeding through the ranks as a journalist, news director - and then programme director at New York’s famous WABC.
Now, as an accomplished international broadcast consultant, her lessons and principles are adopted by numerous leading talk presenters here in the UK and across the planet; and her books are required reading (available here - or a free Audible trial here).
In her own words - this is the Valerie Geller story.
The full Conversations series may be heard here. Theme music thanks toLarry Bryant.
115: Gary Burgess - Wave, Wire, Q96, UTV, BBC Guernsey, ITV, Channel 103
114: Howard Hughes - City, Wyvern, Capital, LBC, BBC local
113: Graham Torrington - BRMB, Buzz, Kix 96, GWR group, BBC local
112: Clive Dickens - Chiltern, BRMB, Capital, ARI, Absolute, Austereo, Seven West, Optus
111: Louisa Compton - BBC Three Counties, 5 Live, Newsbeat, Channel 4
110: Cornelius Lysaght - Severn Sound, Southern, BBC Racing Correspondent
109: David Lloyd - Trent, Leic Sound, Lincs FM, Radio Authority, Century, Galaxy, LBC, Virgin, Orion
108: Ken Bruce - BBC Radio Scotland, Radio 2
107: Rob Jones - City, Luxembourg, the Super Station, USP
106: Colin Mason - Executive, Swansea Sound, Chiltern and BBC local
105: Lisa Kerr - Executive, Radiocentre, Local Radio Company; and Classic FM
104: Pete Price - Presenter, Radio City, City Talk, Radio Merseyside
103: Graham Dene - Presenter, UBN, City, Capital, Virgin, Magic, Smooth, BBC Local
102: David Symonds - Presenter, BBC Light, Home, Radio 1,2, Capital, Victory
101: Simon Mayo - Presenter, Radio 1, 2, 5 Live, Nottingham & Brighton
100: Don Thomson - Commercial Director, Piccadilly, Chrysalis, COO Global
99: Steve Collins - Programmer, presenter, Voice of Peace, Capital, Smooth, County Sound, Top Shop, Red Rose
98: Diana Luke - Presenter, Viking, Jazz, Superstation, County Sound, BBC local
97: Steve Orchard - Programmer, executive, GWR, GCap, Quidem, Prison Radio
96: John Inverdale - Presenter and sport, BBC local, BBC Radio 4, 2, 5, 5 Live
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