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Last night WCAX-TV Channel 3 in Burlington, Vt., aired a segment on “Floydian Slip.”

The focus of the piece was our evolution from college radio show to syndication on our 30th anniversary.

Thanks to reporter Ike Bendavid for coming out to our secret basement broadcasting lab for the chat.

“Floydian Slip” turns 30 years old this month.

Though the exact date is lost to time, it was January 1989 when I returned from holiday break senior year as a Television-Radio major at Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y., and took over what had been called “The Pink Floyd Hour” on the school’s carrier current radio station “Solid Rock 106-VIC.”

Renaming it “Floydian Slip,” I aired† the show Sunday nights for only one semester, until my graduation in May that year.

I’ve spun this story ad nauseam during the lead-up to Show #1,000 in June 2015, so I’ll stop here. (You can catch up by browsing my series of posts “Floydian Slip’s Bizarre Collection of Antiques & Curios.” Start here.)

Regardless, milestones that end with zeroes always give one reason to pause and reflect. What I started on little more than a whim as a fresh vicenarian is now something I still continue to focus on as a less-than-fresh quinquagenarian — Google it — without regret.

So as 2018 becomes 2019, thanks for listening, and shine on.

†Strictly speaking, 106-VIC didn’t put out anything “over the air.” The station reached the IC campus over an AM frequency pumped through the campus electrical system; and at 105.9 FM on the county’s cable television system, for anyone motivated enough to split their cable and run a line to their stereo. The station is now know as “VIC Radio,” and streams online.