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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.

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 ...

Influential Detroit media mentor Dick Kernen dies at 82 Kernen estimated to have helped shape the lives, careers of thousands Tags:  Dick Kernen, alongside colleague Specs Howard. (WDIV) Kernen, a Michigan Broadcasting Hall of Fame inductee, helped shape broadcast through his work with CBS Sports Radio 1270 when it was known as WXYZ-AM, WRIF 101.1 and his work with the Specs Howard School of Media Arts. Kernen is estimated to have helped shape the lives of thousands of broadcast workers across the state, including many at WDIV, Local 4. His family confirmed Friday he passed away from natural...

Dick Kernen, a giant of Michigan broadcasting who boosted the careers of countless familiar on-air voices and faces, died of natural causes Friday at home in Dearborn, his family confirmed. He was 82. Kernen, who started with WXYZ-AM in the '50s and helped form WRIF-FM in the '70s, was vice president of industry relations at the Specs Howard School of Media Arts in Southfield, where he had worked since 1972. A 2003 Michigan Broadcasting Hall of Fame inductee, Kernen was a guiding hand — both inside and outside Specs Howard — to some of the best-known names on the local airwaves in recen...