Newsman Blaine Schwartz, Bimp the Wonder Panda, and Chuck at WCMF.
Chuck Ingersoll at WCMF, Rochester.
Chuck Ingersoll
RADIO AIR CHECKS
Thanks to cassettes saved from back in the day, airchecks from WCMF and WSAY plus a complete Soul Jazz Spectrum on Jazz 90.1.
PARENT’S ROLE
CHUCK INGERSOLL | BIO
Stuff my Relatives (Well, A Couple of them) Find FascinatinG
RADIO THEN
Announcer, voice actor and voice talent experience: seven years in commercial radio as morning host and Program Director at WCMF in Rochester, and mid-days and PD at WSAY, Rochester. 20+ years writing and experience as a male voice talent for hundreds of radio and TV commercials, narrations, eLearning, videos, trailers, audio, animation, video games, cartoons, books, podcasts, interactive presentations, phone messaging, training, station imaging, and other voice acting projects. Original music creations, sound sweetening, and other miscellaneous audio projects for video, TV, radio, and commercials. I have some great memories of WCMF and WSAY posted on my chuckingersoll.com and also on the WCMF/WSAY page of this site.
RADIO NOW
Current radio and all that jazz: Host of the Soul Jazz Spectrum, a program where the groove survives and thrives. Sunday nights from 9 'til 10 pm, ET, on Jazz 90.1 in Rochester (where you can also listen to the live stream.) To listen live, go to the
Jazz 90.1 site.
ADVERTISING EXPERIENCE
The ad biz: For 10 years, I was owner/president/ and Panamanian strongman (funnier when Manuel Noriega ruled the Canal Zone) of Ingersoll et al Communications. Clients included Kodak, Xerox, Bausch & Lomb and LaserMax. Today I continue to do copywriting, branding, tagline and slogan writing – all part of the advertising mix.
VOICE TALENT AND WRITER
Why all this ad stuff matters. As a copywriter, I can assist you in concepting, writing, and creating radio and TV commercials and other projects, as well as voiceovers for them. I've written for radio, TV, DVDs, videos, Websites, brochures, podcasts, interactive media, etc.
BRANDING, TAGLINES, NAMING
Along with voice talent, I also provide naming and branding services to some of the country's best branding firms: BrandPlay, Rivkin Associates, 800 Degrees and others, creating memorable brand and company names, as well as meaningful taglines, catchy slogans, and ideal positioning for products, services and organizations. As a namer, brand strategist, slogan writer and tagline creator, I can develop the perfect branding for you, your company, product or service. Recently I created the brand name AHA, via BrandPlay, for a new sparkling water from Coca-Cola. In the past, among many others, I developed the name and tagline for Bausch & Lomb's Predator sunglasses: Stalk the Sun.
PREVIOUS LIVES
1) Journalist and writer for jazz and music pubs, including downbeat, Different Drummer, and Fusion ; co-founder of Rochester's Freetime magazine. 2) Three summers at the Erie Co. Water Control Center, Dist. #2... a.k.a. the sewage plant. It was an education. You wanna talk about "keepin' it real," this was totes real.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
For a completely different and more visually dazzling look at Chuck Ingersoll: Go to chuckingersoll.com. This option is recommended only for those with way too much time on their hands.
THE REAL VOICE TALENT: real CLEAR. real FRIENDLY. real VERSATILE.
If there were radio jobs, and I wanted a radio job, and it was an oldies format or perhaps personality, adult hits or Jack / Bob, thie WTOC "aircheck" would be my demo for a DJ / on air host / radio personality gig.
Now there was an interview! Root Boy Slim, of Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band fame, visiting WCMF, latish '70s. Root Boy told me, "I used to be in urban planning. Now I can't even play my lunch." The band did a live downstairs concert. Before going on, Root Boy "shot" a 6-pack of beer, then careened off the stage at one point and landed his large self on midday woman Dia Stein, but she survived. His back-up singers, the Rootettes, also took a liking to one of the weekend jocks and within 5 minutes of meeting him, took him into a back room for a quick getting-to-know-you sexual favor.
Pictured l-to-r: Ted Edwards, Jim Hooley, Chuck Ingersoll, Gary Whipple, with the estimable Root Boy seated in front.