During my formative years I was incredibly fortunate to work at WLOL in the Twin Cities. The station was a monster and the talent in the halls was ridiculous. And not just on-air but just across the board from Traffic and Production to the Business Office and Engineering.
The General Manager was a bright and charismatic man named Doyle Rose who one day thought, “I wonder if there’s a market for inflatable boomboxes.”
There was. He sold a bunch and was richer than Captain Kangaroo.