Dallas is a long way from New York City – just under 1,400 miles – but it’s even farther for Frank Reed, the Christian radio veteran who once called WNBC Radio and 30 Rockefeller Plaza home back in the 1970s and 1980s.
Semi-retired from his daily morning gig on Salem’s KLTY-FM in Dallas, Frank still hosts a program called “Keep the Faith”, customized specifically for KLTY. It’s a nationally syndicated show filled with guests, stories and songs designed to make ‘encouragement contagious!’ He also inspires and coaches others in Christian music radio. On this day, he’s preparing to head into the station to do some voice work, but he was willing to talk with me to discuss some memories of his early days in radio – some of which was before he became a Christian.
“I got into radio right out of high school. I was terribly insecure. But I really threw myself…
