Return To New Orleans
If you have problems with any of my links, please bear with me. I am currently
rebuilding several pages. My return to New Orleans was in more ways than one the "Second Time Around". (I'll be adding details to these "headlines" shortly) I decided NOT to resume relations with my first
wife; married Jean; filled in as Emile DeBeque in South Pacific; Filled in as Nick Arnstein in Funny Girl; left broadcasting to go into
sales endeavor; worked as D.J. at WWIW;
Charlie Matkin
returned to broadcasting at WNPS/WYES-TV; Started dating Jean; moved to
WWL Radio;
broke news to CBS about theGarrison JFK probe;
Summer Pops audition winner;
returned to WNPS as Chief Announcer/News Director;
Played Cervantes/Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha;
other jobs in sales (District Manager for World Book);
hired at WEZB-FM as announcer/salesman; when they changed to Disco format, moved to WBYU-FM. Performed in An Evening of Victor Hebert (sic) and The Sound of Music;
Recorded album of Show Tunes with
Ronnie Kole Trio;
First President and soloist with New Orleans Symphony Chorus;
(performed 5 solos/duets in An Evening of Rodgers & Hammerstein)
Resigned from radio and bought small hotel.
Proprietor of Old World Inn for 21 years.
Gave a recital of sacred, operatic and broadway selections; Had role of the Captain in HMS Pinafore; Sang Elijah in Birmingham; Bought a sailboat.
Sold hotel and retired.
Several years ago, a group of professional actors and/or
broadcasters got together to re-create old time radio scripts as a fund-raiser
for WRBH-FM, Radio for the Blind in New Orleans. This led to the creation
of a non-profit organization, New Orleans Radio Theatre, Inc., of which
I was a co-founder and am now President and Executive Producer. We have
recently been involved in a project to create a Radio & TV Museum in
New Orleans. However, that appears to be an idea whose time has NOT come.
We have closed down the project. Very sad not to have gotten any funding
or enough interest to continue.
We have a new web page, however. Go to the link for the virtual museum after
clicking www.neworleansradiotheatre.org
Email me at: cmatkin@gmail.com
New Orleans Radio Theatre,
Inc. 
