Lisa Baden, Traffic Reporter and Radio Personality, has been reporting traffic in Our Town for 27 years. She is a favorite radio personality of host Andy Ockershausen, as well as many drivers she’s helped navigate traffic over the years. She’s been on mornings, afternoons, and overnights. She worked at University of Maryland’s radio station while working full time and going to school part time to obtain the experience she needed to be hired on radio and the rest is history. She is grateful for the opportunity to provide such a service and even more so to be able to do it a way that is true to her personality and it works! This upbeat interview touches on the following:
• Captain Dan
• Evolution of Traffic Reporting in Our Town
• Evolving as a Traffic Reporter into Radio Personality Who Reports Traffic
• Success: How You Perceive, and Approach, an Opportunity
• Remembering Stacey Binn
• Native Washingtonian Born to be on Radio
• Growing Up in Our Town
• Baden’s Signature and Radio Programming and Commercials
• No Bathrooms on the “Traffic” Plane and Metro Traffic
• Rush Hour Changes Construction Start Time the Same
• University of Maryland Radio Experience Part of the Plan
• Washington DC Sniper
• 911
• Tar Truck and Journalism 101 – Journalistic Integrity
• Loving Her Career
• Traffic Reporting: Evolution of Information Resources Over the Years
• Radio Personality Reporting Traffic
• Reporting Traffic on 911
• Making it Personal to Listeners
• Up at 2:30AM to Avoid Traffic
• Family
• The Amish | Tobacco and Traffic Reports
• A Passion: Always Learning | Can’t Imagine it Ending
The entire transcript for this podcast episode can be found on our website here:
https://ourtowndc.com/lisa-baden-traffic-radio-personality/
A special thanks to Our Town sponsors Attorney Mike Collins, The Eric Stewart Group, Tony & Joe's Seafood Restaurant and Nicks Riverside Grill.