The Alison Steele Method For Creating a Hit Late-Night Radio Show

How do you make a successful radio show, far from the prime-time hours? Follow these five steps Alison Steele took when she became a deejay for the first time.

by Rich Watson 

Alison Steele (no connection to The Real Don Steele) deejayed late at night, removed from the more popular early morning breakfast hours or the afternoon commute home from work. 

Yet during the seventies she amassed a substantial and loyal audience despite having no experience at the job.

She had to learn as she went.

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BRW: Behind the Blind

New feature. 

Every now and then I’ll let you in on what I’m doing and how I do it. If I have a piece of writing I’m not going to shop, I’ll show it off. I’ll let you know what I’m reading or watching, too, that sort of thing.

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The Real Don Steele Went Hollywood in “Death Race 2000,” Co-Starring a Young Sylvester Stallone

This popular deejay found a new audience with his film roles, such as this outrageous b-movie, co-starring a future Hollywood legend.

by Rich Watson 

This post is part of the Favorite Stars in B-Movies Blogathon, a blog event. At the end I’ll tell you where to find more posts like this.

After a tour of duty up and down the radio stations of the Pacific Northwest and the Bay Area during the fifties and sixties, Don Steele found a home in Los Angeles, at KHJ. Their new “Boss Radio” format, the same one Tom Donahue forsook in San Francisco, turned Steele into a star on TV as well as radio.

In 1975, he appeared in the first of a handful of films, albeit a B-movie. He shared the screen with an up-and-coming actor who was one year away from superstardom.

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