Tim Conway, Jr.

Did you hear KFI/LA‘s Tim Conway Jr. on “The Weekend”?  He’s very good. But even this talented guy with a famous dad had to hustle to get into talk radio. Here’s how the LA Times tells it:

Conway’s new gig is a far cry from “Late Net,” the online talk show he began hosting in 1996 from a storefront studio in Santa Monica, as an early pioneer in Internet programming.

“We told people it was being listened to by 400,000 people worldwide every night,” Conway said — a figure he and his cohorts simply made up. More likely, he admits now, “there were two people listening every night, and their audio dropped out every eight seconds.”

But in those days, when the Internet was still a novelty to many and such claims were hard to verify, a few credulous media outlets came calling to check out the new venture. That attention, and Conway’s ploy to tap radio-station executives as guests on the show, eventually led to an invitation to go on-air at KLSX in 1997.

Talent, technology and smart self-promotion — it’s a potent combination.  If you’ve got the talent, TFM can help with the rest of that equation.