An eclectic approach will be good for radio, says Kroeger

by Myron LoveLASALLE, Man. - A friend's 40th birthday party eight years ago was the trigger for Howard Kroeger’s epiphany, an epiphany that has led the former director of operations for CHUM’s Winnipeg radio stations to become the go-to guy for ’80s music for radio stations throughout the United States.“When I arrived at the party, my friends were listening to a competing radio station,” Kroeger recalls. “They were apologetic. They said they just wanted to listen to the music that we grew up with. While some of the songs were from the ‘80s, others were from the ‘60s. We were...