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Add to My Lists more Claim Embed. Web Site. Wtop Morning Traffic. Add Milestone No milestones has been recorded for Lisa Baden. Lisa Baden Wtop Bio Source: pulsitemeter. Sun, Nov 25, by Anonymous user Share. Lisa Baden Source: www. Source: www. About Us - Lisa Baden Source: lisabaden. Lisa Baden LinkedIn Source: www. Lisa, so happy to have you here. Janice Iacona Ockershausen: I love that, that is your signature line as far as in my memory, that is a wonderful character of WTOP what their slogan and Promo was and really that you were instrumental in my mind for the changing of the whole radio market and the shift from WMAL superiority to really the growth of the new WTOP.

Andy Ockershausen: Well, absolutely. However, one of the things that happened over the years was commercials, which we believed in and you believed in as a commercial broadcaster that we would remember the radio station, which they have commercial free hours. Yeah, commercial free days. We did a time free.

We did nothing but commercials for two hours one day. Got cited by the FCC had a big boo ha about it, but we just played commercials back to back to back to back to back.

We were needling our fellow station Q Janice Iacona Ockershausen: They went commercial free. Janice Iacona Ockershausen: We went, we went the opposite. Andy Ockershausen: Commercial all the way. Lisa Baden: Yeah it was fun. Andy Ockershausen: They were great for two hours on a weekend. But Lisa, you have lived through a lot in this broadcast business, in the city of Washington, and some of your stories, you must be fabulous about them. What you did, you fly.

Did you ever fly with Captain Dan? Andy Ockershausen: Yeah. Lisa Baden: Just to get a different perspective of it. Are you in the helicopter? And my answer is no. I get to go to the bathroom. Those people never get to go to the bathroom. Andy Ockershausen: Tell me about it. Lisa Baden: Oh yes. He was from Baltimore originally. David Saperstein.

Andy Ockershausen: David son of a gun. Honey, David Saperstein was a friend of ours. We — I made a deal with him so many years ago and to get him started in the march, because he started in Baltimore during this traffic where information and that was after we had given and we were giving up when a helicopter became very expensive.

You know that. Lisa Baden: Absolutely. Those days are gone. So we got to do something about it. Lisa Baden: Oh yes it is. Lisa Baden: Well, thank you. Did you go to broadcast school at Maryland? Andy Ockershausen: Work with the station. I worked full time. Lisa Baden: Correct. Andy Ockershausen: I had faced that for my years in broadcasting.

My advice was not to say go west. I said go anywhere out of Washington. You got to work your way from the bottom. Get a job in a little radio station somewhere where you can do everything and get out of town. But like Charlie Gibson. Charlie Gibson came to us and we worked with him and sent him down to our station in Lynchburg. We owned a station down there. I can give you some more names like that, but they all went everywhere and learned the business then came back.

Some of the names are unbelievable. Male and female. If you want to get in broadcasting, get into bottom and work your way up. Lisa Baden: It is. Andy Ockershausen: I recall with Katie Couric and her opportunity to get there, she originally left. She was at WMAL as an intern. Can you believe that? Katie and her husband, I mean her father was a friend of mine named John Couric and if she wanted to really be on the air, be a performer, you know, do somewhere that works you all the time.

I think she went to CNN first, like a street reporter. Lisa Baden: Hmm. Lisa Baden: Yes, absolutely hard work will do that. Andy Ockershausen: Tell me some your stories Lisa about…. Lisa Baden: Dealt with the sniper for so long and we would get phone calls. It was ringing off the hook. We had to hire people to help us answer the phones because at first everyone was looking for a white van.

They thought the sniper was in van. Andy Ockershausen: The white van story, I remember that vividly. Lisa Baden: Yes, absolutely. Andy Ockershausen: What years was that or was that the early nineties the white van? Janice Iacona Ockershausen: It was a box truck. Yeah, white box truck. Lisa Baden: And people were calling us from all over the Washington area. Like I just saw a white van. I saw a white box truck, you know, and I mean, and everyone was afraid to go to the gas station and… Janice Iacona Ockershausen: Good reason, right?

It was a frightening time. Everyone was on edge. They wanted the latest information. And then we went through I remember being at work in the morning and somebody called and said, I see a plane flying low at the Pentagon. And then the next thing you know, I heard the person screaming on the phone.

And that was when the signal dropped and Ooh, I get the goosebumps just thinking about it. And we have televisions on all around in the studio. Andy Ockershausen: Absolutely, you got to have proof. Lisa Baden: I refuse to be first, just to be first. I want to be accurate. Andy Ockershausen: God Bless you. Lisa Baden: So I had to confirm it and I was like chomping at the bit.

This, that and the other. Well finally we got confirmation. A tar truck just turned over and that was hours of cleanup. I mean hours but so although I would love to be first, I desire accuracy more so, you know? Lisa Baden: Yes, it does. Andy Ockershausen: We went through that with the Florida crash and Florida air and unfortunately for us, Captain Dan was there when that airplane went into Potomac.

But some of the stories of our traffic reports are unbelievable. We knew that young lady that hit the, she was the WWDC call letters where they hit the a power transmission. What was her name? Andy Ockershausen: In the helicopter, it hit a power line somewhere in the area and they lost her and lost them.

I think the pilots survived, it was a strange, strange story, but that was in, it had to be in the Sixties. Lisa Baden: Oh. Andy Ockershausen: Long, long time ago. You were probably just a kid in grammar school. Lisa Baden: Of course, look how young I am. Andy Ockershausen: Both of you ladies. Lisa Baden: Why are you laughing? What happened in PG county as it did everywhere.

So Lisa, do you regret never having been a pilot with the flying? Lisa Baden: No, I think everyone. Andy Ockershausen: Saperstein loved you. Lisa Baden: Oh, thank you. Andy Ockershausen: Right. And this is Andy Ockershausen. This is Andy O. Hi, this is Eric Stewart of Long and Foster. You can get it at EricStewartGroup.

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Brought to you by Best Bark Communications. Andy Ockershausen: This Our Town this is Andy Ockershausen having a wonderful conversation with, with one of my idols. I happen to be a lot older than she is, but I remember her beginning… Lisa Baden: A lot.

Andy Ockershausen: I remember now. Lisa Baden: Just saying. Nobody did it. We were the first one WMAL with a cop and we even got him promoted, he went to Lieutenant from um, and he was the head of the patrol and we had the whole city helping us with this traffic reporter cause he was a policeman. But that was it wore out and wore out its welcome. Janice Iacona Ockershausen: Yeah. That became a big thing and that really helped. I think that the technology with the cameras was number one. Number two, I think the helicopters were, were so slow compared to… Andy Ockershausen: Expensive too.

Janice Iacona Ockershausen: Expensive compared to, because you had a larger area to cover and then the fixed wing as Andy was talking about with the Captain Dan, that was another, a transition. She should represent everything that any American would be proud of. Parents are the new electoral power players Corey DeAngelis.

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