Jim Nayder, a former program director at Chicago NPR station WBEZ, voice-tracked weekend station breaks at that station in exchange for them airing his documentary series about 12-steppers "Magnificent Obsession" and one day played during a long break WIlliam Shatner's version of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds." That began "The Annoying Music Show," a weekly celebration of kitsch and inappropriate music for public radio that, thanks to many appearances on longtime friend Scott Simon's "Weekend Edition Saturday" on NPR, became nationally syndicated and was even heard on the BBC--ironically, the creator of a series about overcoming addictions had a long history of alcoholism (the cause of death has yet to be revealed):
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-06-28/entertainment/chi-jim-nayder-host-of-the-annoying-music-show-dead-20130628_1_johanna-zorn-jim-nayder-annoying-music-show -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
