Conference noted::sf

148.0. "Science Fiction radio" by FELIX::JANZEN () Fri Oct 19 1984 15:49

ANNOUNCER:	Listener-sponsored Pacifica radio for all of southern
		California, this is KPFK, Los Angeles, ninety-point 
		seven on your FM dial, Dolby-B encoded, twenty-four
		hours a day.  
		(beat)
		It's ten o'clock on a Friday night, and time for
		science fact, science fantasy, and science fiction
		on Hour twenty-five, with your hosts Mike Hodel,
		Mel Gilden, and Terry Hodel with the Science-
		Fiction Calendar.  It's the first Friday of the
		month, and as always Linda Strawn will be here
		with Future Watch at ten thirty.

Then a groovy intro where the "Group Mind" is engaged like a NASA launch.
Then Mike and Mel goof off for a couple minutes, then tell what the next
five shows will be about, then read a couple quick articles from the
magazines and newspapers about sf, then by 10:20 or 10:40 Terry Hodel
(the ex mrs. mike) does five or so minutes of science-fiction etc.
events for the week, then about 10:45 the guest of the evening comes on
and Mike and Mel interview them.  The guest is usually a biggie in
the field.  harlan ellison is on a lot because he lives nearby, or he
calls in with something.  David Gerald, whose secretary I tried to
date without knowing she was his secretary, lives a little further
and is on sometimes.  Bradbury is one every so often, and he once told
me I tell a good ghost story, which I did over the phone last halloween
(Twain's Golden Arm from how to tell a story).  They talk about
the writing field (both hosts are pro writers), getting started, about
movies and that field.  They open the phones and the listeners
(the Group Mind, or G.M.) ask tough questions and give information.
the engineer for the show is Burt Handlesman, Crack Engineer (or just
C.E.).  This goes on for two hours solid, except the first friday
when the incredible brilliant and attractive Linda is on, talking
to "people that watch the future".

Don't you wish you were in L.A. tonight?
Tom