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"Okemos Brewing Company" serves up classic rock online

Kevin Lavery/WKAR

Radio has many attractive qualities: its immediacy, its scope, its personal touch. Others in our profession feel that way, too, and some have even made that passion their hobby. Dan Kelley, technology manager with the Michigan Association of Broadcasters, is one of those people.Current State’s Kevin Lavery talks with Dan Kelley about his six-year-old online classic rock radio project called Okemos Brewing Company.

Kevin Lavery served as a general assignment reporter and occasional local host for Morning Edition and All Things Considered before retiring in 2023.
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