Forty-three years
in radio.
I have been doing this since I was twelve, on a midnight shift in Mississippi I got by lying about my age. Now I own Power88.FM, host Shannon.Show weekday mornings on it, and build the software the rest of the industry's small stations run when they can't afford a staff to run it for them.
- Air
- Weekdays · 6–10 AM Pacific
- Station
- Power88.FM
- Format
- Greatest hits of the '70s, '80s and '90s
- Market
- Solano County and the I-80 corridor
Most people in radio software have never had to make a log at four in the afternoon. I have. Every day.
Power88.FM is mine. I own it, I program it, I host the morning show, and when the codec drops at six in the morning I am the person standing at the rack, because there is nobody else.
That is not a hardship story — it is the entire qualification. Everything on this site was built to fix something that was wrong with my own station first. The traffic system exists because ours never delivered a log. The compliance kit exists because the FCC handed a rule to stations with no engineer. The show prep exists because I was opening a Word document at 5am like everybody else.
Small-market radio is not a smaller version of big radio. It is a different job. The tools should know that.
Cartwright
The traffic system a small station can actually run, because it was built inside one.
Read onShowPrepPro
Daily show prep that is sourced, searchable, and readable on the air.
Read onStation Compliance
The FCC's new program chain rule, turned into a weekend of work instead of a consulting bill.
Read onPower88.FM
A digital station that proves "digital" does not have to mean "distant".
Read onAir work, voice work, consulting, or a station that needs one of these things built.
The fastest way to reach me is email. I answer it myself — there is no support form and no front desk.