259:, speaking to a national conference of public radio program directors, cited the Colin McEnroe Show as his example of a local program using humor and innovation effectively. A subsequent conversation between the two men became an episode of The Pub, a national podcast about public radio. In February 2011, McEnroe and his radio staff were featured on the cover of
51:. He graduated from Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford, Connecticut and his near-perfect SAT scores (796 Verbal & 793 Math) earned him a scholarship to Yale University. While a student at Yale College in 1974, he was a test subject in a controlled study on the addictive nature of computer games, which at that time were text-based. His father,
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