IT ALL BEGAN AT A LITTLE 1,000 WATT RADIO STATION IN WESTERN NEW YORK

And in a way, it did. While at SUNY Geneseo working on my Communications degree, I began working the 4:30 pm to sign-off shift at WCJW in Warsaw, NY. A daytime station, "The Heart of Western New York" went dark for the day when the sun went down. In the summer, this could be 8:45 pm. In the winter, I just got there and went back home. Biggest challenge: creating a 15-minute newscast in just 30 minutes in the days of teletypes, cart machines, and razor-blade editing.

After college, I worked in advertising and radio at various agencies and stations, including ICE Communications, Roberts Communications, WCMF and "The New WSAY." In the ad biz, I was a writer and eventually creative supervisor and agency owner. Radio-wise, I hosted the morning show at WCMF (pre-Wease) and was mid-day host, along with being program director at both stations.

WCMF and WSAY Airchecks

On Sunday nights at 9 pm (ET) on Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY USA, I host the Soul Jazz Spectrum. It's one hour where the groove survives and thrives, featuring Grant Green to Greyboy, Soulive to Jimmy Smith. As Dick Clark used to say, if it has a good groove and you can dance to it, I'll play it.

Click the button below to listen to 10 recent Soul Jazz Spectrum shows and podcasts that you can play on demand.

WCMF Rochester DJs back in the day. Suzanne King, Paulus, Chuck Ingersoll, Bernie Kimble (L to R)

The Soul Jazz Spectrum

A couple recordings from my radio years. The rock of WCMF and the MOR of WSAY.

Chuck Ingersoll aircheck on WCMF, Rochester.

Chuck on "The New WSAY"