RIP Chicago Zecom Radio founder Marty Zivin.

http://www.robertfeder.com/2017/01/10/m ... 1956-2017/


A self-styled “audio visionary,” Zivin headed Zecom Radio, a pioneering Internet radio operation, software development company and broadcast consultancy, which he founded in 1982. From studios in Hoffman Estates, he programmed two full-time streaming stations, one playing oldies and another a mix of progressive and classic rock.

Young Marty had just turned 8 years old in 1964 when he built his first radio station — dubbed WQFM — equipped with a Remco Caravelle transmitter and a small record player. “The first broadcast day began at 10 a.m. and ended at 10 p.m. and featured any and every album I could get my hands on,” he recalled. As his talents and ambitions grew, many more stations would follow.

A graduate of Niles West High School and Northern Illinois University, Zivin held a wide variety of broadcast operations jobs over four decades in Chicago at WSBC AM 1240 and WXRT FM 93.1, and in the northwest suburbs at WRMN AM 1410 and WJKL FM 94.3, and the former WCBR.

Not a bad word said about him in the industry. God bless.

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To say nothing of everything he did as a historian of Chicago radio, he fought brain and lung cancer for like two and a half years after being told he had weeks to live.

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