Ken Zurski on Radio Technology and Steamboat Disasters

Welcome Ken Zurski as our first interview guest.

Ken is Operations Manager, Traffic One Traffic Center, JMP Radio Group (Peoira IL).

Ken and I will discuss the evolving role of technology in metropolitan traffic reporting and radio broadcasting. He recently got some new equipment and his command center looks pretty cool.

Ken is also the author of  The Wreck of the Columbia, a book about the Titanic disaster event of the Peoria and Pekin IL area, when, in 1918, the steamboat Columbia sank in the Illinois river.

The technology of the old steamboats and why so many of them caught fire and sank is make a fascinating and tragic  topic.