Scott Ericson has been involved in music production and broadcasting since the seventh grade when he built his first radio station, which eventually made it onto the FM band using a 1/4-watt transmitter from Radio Shack (and a big antenna!).  That station, with a staff of four, broadcast week-endly from 1967 through 1970.    Scott later worked in production roles at various college radio stations in the late 70's, but didn't hit the airwaves again until joining a public radio station in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in 1987.  After additional training under Kimberly Haas (who is now executive producer of the public radio program ECHOES* )  he hosted the program "First Light" every Sunday morning from 1987 thru the end of 1991, featuring an extremely wide range of music from New Age and Folk to Folk Rock, Celtic and even Alternative.  Highlights include hosting an in-studio interview with Ric Sanders and Dave Pegg of Fairport Convention in 1989, introducing artists like Clannad (including a 4-hour special program in 1988), Capercaillie, Altan, and many more, and being the first to play Enya in the Pittsburgh radio market on January 22, 1989 - not because of any prior exposure or PR, but because of finding a promotional copy of Watermark in a used record store with "from Clannad" written on the plastic cover sleeve, and just giving it a try!  Another "Nightshades" DJ quickly located a copy of Enya's first CD, and between the "First Light" and "Nightshades" programs, Enya quickly became the most requested artist for quite some time.

Scott Ericson has been involved in more than just radio work.  In addition to a 20 year career ("day job") in Computer Applications Development, Marketing and Management, he has over 15 years of live recording experience, and served as the Recording Engineer and Publicity Director for the Allegheny Brass Band in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, from 1986 to 1997.  He recorded the North American Brass Band Championships Competition in Pittsburgh's Carnegie Music Hall in 1990, and England's touring Desford Colliery Caterpillar Band (as they were named at the time) also in 1990.  He has also recorded numerous other types of groups including Barbershop, Classical, Choral, and Rock.

Scott started the CoolStreams website in early 1998, first "webcasting" through "AudioNet" (which became Broadcast.com and was later sold to Yahoo by owner Mark Cuban.  It's nice to know that those program hosting payments that the early Music Sojourn made to AudioNet back then, in some miniscule way, helped Mark Cuban eventually buy the Dallas Mavericks :). 

Scott's interest was to produce "programs" or "streams" by genres or themes in a way that was (is) not practical in a single stream broadcast radio setting.  Scott's biggest problem (after not selling the Music Sojourn web site for $5 Billion back then) is that he likes too much music in too many different genres -- all of those mentioned above, and then some -- and has about 4,000 CDs and 5,000 LPs to prove it.

Over the years, Scott has invited several other producers who share similar interests in diverse, quality music and programming, to contribute to the CoolStreams programming concept.  Some programs, like the Echoes and Saturday Light Brigade public radio series', got their online start on Music Sojourn's web site and are now available on their own web sites, and other series' are still available on the updated Coolstreams site.

* [the Echoes program series was also hosted online at the original Music Sojourn site from 1999-2002]

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By the way, this is NOT the same Scott Ericson profiled above! (I have nothing against wrestlers, its just not me! - Nor am I a baseball player - though the spelling is different).