Roxy’s Goin’ Fishin’

• After a remarkable (and colorful) 42-year career in the music industry, the last 16 with United Stations Radio Networks, Inc., the lovely and multi-talented Ms. Roxy Myzal announced she would be downshifting into relaxation mode and relinquishing her work duties, effective December 31. The announcement came from USRN EVP of Programming, Andy Denemark, with whom Myzal has worked closely with since early 2001 at the company’s New York offices.

Roxy (pictured here with the elusive Maynard James Keenan of Tool and A Perfect Circle) got her start in 1975 as the Director of the Boston Record Pool. She later achieved notoriety as the Music Director of the late WXLO (99X)/New York, before going on to high-profile promotion gigs at Atlantic and Chrysalis Records, and then to Rolling Stone, where she worked on the syndicated rock radio show, Rolling Stone’s Continuous History of Rock and Roll.

In the mid-’80s, after a stint with DIR Broadcasting, the late Rick Sklar suggested Roxy for a job as Music Director for a burgeoning UHF TV station in Boston, “V66,” owned by a couple of local radio giants, John Garabedian and Arnie “Woo Woo” Ginsburg. In 1987, when V66 was sold to the Home Shopping Network, Myzal moved to Los Angeles and worked with Robert Kardashian at the short-lived MCA Radio Network. In the mid-’90s Roxy created the influential weekend program, hardDrive, hosted by Lou Brutus and expanded the hardDrive brand by creating the nightly five-hour version of the show, hardDrive XL, as well as the annual hardDrive Live rock tour … and the rest.as they say, is rock and roll.

Denemark said, “Everyone in the United Stations family wishes Roxy the best as she embarks on her next chapter with her partner, Dwight Douglas. Life at the New York offices of USRN will not be the same without her.” In 2018 and beyond you can reach Ms. Roxy via email at roxillator@gmail.com.