Our Town With Host Andy Ockershausen - Homegrown History

Showing up is the secret to success and Our Town guest Cary Hatch does just that - shows up - and has consistently for over 30 years. If there is a meaningful networking event in our town you can expect to see her there. After all communications, both domestic and international, is her business. She moves deftly within the advertising and marketing space, and as such achievements are, and have been, many. We thought it only made sense that Cary be in the top three in our podcast roll out. Cary shares her secrets with host Andy Ockershausen on how she got to the top and how she stays there. Interestingly, Cary joined MDB Communications in 1981 as an account executive, promoted to management in 1983, and purchased the company in 1987. Under her guidance, MDB was recognized as an Inc. 500 company in 1998. Included within the spectrum of her client experience are National Geographic, Fannie Mae, Destination DC, International Spy Museum, Sprint, and Heros, Inc. Most recently Cary was called upon to work wi

Tony Cibel is one of Washington’s Leading Restaurateurs. Tony shares the story of his career from it’s beginnings as a dance studio manager to owner of a liquor store on 14th Street in the battleground of DC after the riots in the early 1970s to proprietor of one of the biggest Redskins hangouts around, the Malt Shop at the Dancing Crab. Now his family owns two of the hottest waterfront properties on the Washington waterfront, Tony and Joe’s and Nick’s Riverside Grill. Find out what happened in April 2011 that almost ruined his business and how he got it back. Listen in at the media player above to Andy O with Tony Cibel on "Our Town." You can listen in to each episode of Our Town as they roll out over the next several months by subscribing on iTunes, Google Play, or by completing the subscription form in the sidebar to the right with your email address. Andy and his guests get personal as they share their deep understanding and knowledge of Washington, DC during the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90’s. We think you w

No doubt, we all remember where we were on 9/11, and hearing the sounds replayed after 15 years bring back the vivid memories of the horror we all felt brought on by the events of that day. Our lives were forever changed. "Our Town" host Andy Ockershausen sat down with 34-year news veteran WMAL News Director John Matthews to relive one of the most horrific days in our town’s history. Listen now at the media player above. Andy had a tennis game that morning at Army-Navy Country Club and had just finished it. He saw smoke billowing from The Pentagon and immediately called the station to report it, and gave his eyewitness report on air. John tells us that Andy “very well may have been THE first reporter on hand” to call into any broadcast station. Andy’s one and one-half minute report – which you will hear at the beginning of the podcast - reveals his initial impressions of the terror. The information he reported to WMAL in the first minute of his report became vital to those who were first responders a

“We have come full circle” ~Andy and Janice Ockershausen - Our Town DC Our Town DC Andy and Janice Ockershausen Here we are - Andy and I - sitting in WMAL studios on Jenifer Street recording our new podcast series called "Our Town". We have come full circle. Both Andy and I worked together at WMAL radio station many years ago in the very building we are recording “Our Town”. Andy managed the station for 11 of his 36 years and I worked in programming and sales for 32 years. Needless to say, WMAL is near and dear to our hearts. We are here because we have an affinity for this station. It was our home – between the two of us for over 7 decades. Bill Hess, the current program director for Cumulus Stations nationwide has graciously allowed us to use this studio as our home base to record “Our Town.” We so appreciate his generosity, and feel fortunate to call Bill our friend. Back in the day, between the early 1960s and mid-1990s, everyone who worked at the radio station or in broadcasting believed there was