Losing the Specs Howard Southfield location is the end of a long 51 year story, but the beginning of a new chapter, which I hope will continue to bring in young, hungry talent to keep this industry strong and bring further help and support to the local communities that keep radio important.
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The Specs Howard School of Media Arts, which has nurtured the careers of thousands of radio and TV professionals in Detroit and beyond, is poised for a major transition, the Free Press has learned.
The 51-year-old broadcasting school is in talks with another highly regarded school to absorb the Specs Howard name and curriculum, the daughter of the school s founder said Friday. Specs the brand, the institution, will continue, said Alisa Zee, a veteran broadcaster who is closely involved with school operations.
The news comes one day after the 95th birthday of the disc jockey and educator born Jerry Liebman, who took the on-air name Specs Howard and started the Southfield school in 1970.
The Red Wings honored him at a recent home game.
The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved.
By Eric Starkman The passing of Richard Curbelo, who died two weeks ago undergoing a routine colonoscopy at Beaumont Health’s flagship Royal Oak hospital, reaffirmed a belief I know anecdotally to be true: Very bad things disproportionally happen to really good people. When I first got word of the horrific tragedy – colonoscopies are statistically very safe procedures that can prevent colon cancer – my immediate instinct was, “I’ll bet the victim turns out to be a selfless individual with a loving spouse, took care of an ailing parent, and who friends and colleagues insist was among the nicest people they’d ever met.