Fried Bagels is Aaron Read, Owner, Managing Director and Senior Engineer. He operates out of the Finger Lakes region of New York, and is readily available for on-site consultation in the upstate New York region. He has over ten years of experience working with non-commercial radio stations (public radio/NPR and college radio) and has worked in the streaming media industry since 1999.
For the full skinny, check out Aaron's Resume 
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Frequently Asked Questions:
1. What da heck does "Fried Bagels" mean??
So while it really has no meaning besides being stupid domain name...it's a very memorably stupid domain name; everyone remembers it!
2. What is your rate?
For radio production/talent work the rate varies with the package.
3. You do on-site work? How far do you travel?
4. What's your availability?
5. Where are you located?
6. What was the deal with that show "RadioLINK"?
7. What's the meaning of life?
8. Why do you listen to more NPR than is healthy?
Everyone always asks me this...technically it doesn't mean anything. Originally an old roommate challenged me to come up with an original domain name. We're both Eagle Scouts so "Fried Beans" was the original idea, an inside joke to our many campouts we'd done in our respective Troops. However "Fried Beans" kinda carries a negative connotation with it. But, I absolutely love bagels...hence "Fried Bagels". Strawberry cream cheese from Einstein Brothers Bagels is the stuff of life; very tasty!
$100/hr for hourly work. On-site work is typically a $800/day flat rate, plus expenses.
Depending on the job, I am available for on-site consultation. There may be additional charges involved.
Extremely limited. My full-time job does not leave much time for outside consulting these days. Never hurts to ask, though. Email me and I'll usually reply within a few hours on a weekday.
The Finger Lakes region of New York, which is between central New York (Syracuse) and western New York (Buffalo and Rochester). It's quite beautiful in the summer, and has a zillion excellent wineries. Less beautiful in the winter, though.
Back in 2001, I produced (and engineered, and hosted) a six-week series called "RadioLINK". It was a 30 minute NPR-style weekly newsmagazine that aired on WMFO 91.5FM in Medford/Boston. The show was about tech news and issues, and was targeted at the high percentage of dot-com people in the Cambridge and Somerville areas, as well as Boston itself. After six weeks I learned why most NPR weekly newsmagazines have five or six people working on them, and not just one! Still, it was a lot of fun and I learned a lot. There's a archived site for the show at www.radiolink.org
Forty-two.
Isn't it obvious?