The story of disc jockey Scott Shannon and the spectacular, against-all-odds rise of New York’s Z100 radio station in the 1980s was so compelling that it needed to be told, according to Indian River Shores resident John McConnell.
“People need to know what happened, how it happened and appreciate this special chapter in radio history,” McConnell said from his Sea Forest home, “because what Scott did at Z100 was unprecedented.”
In fact, it was McConnell – a former New York radio executive and now radio-TV talent agent – who along with Shannon’s wife, Trish, came up with the idea of making a documentary about the overnight transformation of a nobody-cares stop on the FM dial to one of the most listened-to radio stations in America.
One of the film’s executive directors, he also got the project off the ground, which meant convincing Shannon to do it.
“Scott was not…
