Z-100 New York, KIISFM Los Angeles & KBIG/MYFM Los Angeles
After spending only a year broadcasting in his hometown, Hamilton decided to hit the road hoping to achieve the big time one day. After three years of traveling and working for a couple small market radio stations, he ended up in a small town in central New Jersey called Long Branch. In 1983 while broadcasting one night, his big break came when a then famous radio executive Scott Shannon was flying commercially over Long Branch and heard Sean on the air. Upon Shannon's arrival at his destination Sean was immediately offered a job to be part of creating and premiering what is now the largest and most influential radio station in the world today, New York’s WHTZ/Z-100. At just 20 years old and only four years after building his small pirate radio station in Reno, Nevada, he was now on the air at Z-100 in New York City. After Z-100s premiere on August 2, 1983 with its legendary campaign "Worst to First", the station went #1 in the ratings in just 74 days. During those four years working in New York he helped launch and introduce such new artists as Madonna, Duran Duran, U2, Cyndi Lauper and Prince, just to name a few. Hamilton remained at Z-100 from 1983-1987.
In 1987, Hamilton was asked to head out west to join Rick Dees and 102.7 KIIS-FM where he spent a total of seven years on the air. During his seven years at KIISFM he headed up a very popular concert series called “Rad Pack.” This was a concert series where many of the biggest music and teen celebrities at the time would come together to raise money for the newly found D.A.R.E. foundation (Drug Abuse Resistance Education). The attention of this series caught the eye of then President George H. Bush where Hamilton was asked to join the President for several youth anti-drug appearances.
During the late eighties through the mid-nineties while at KIIS-FM, Hamilton made many other notable high profile appearances such as participating in the Toyota Celebrity Grand Prix of Long Beach and being part of the Los Angeles Air Show where he trained and flew with the United States Blue Angels. Hamilton remained at KIIS-FM from 1987-1994.
In April 2009, Clear Channel hand picked Hamilton to become the new afternoon drive host on KBIG-FM, known as 104.3 MYfm in Los Angeles. He was Clear Channel's only "music" radio personality to have an afternoon show broadcasting simultaneously in both New York and Los Angeles, Monday through Friday. Although Hamilton was live on WKTU on the east coast, his show was prerecorded three hours prior to airing at three PM on the west coast. This method of pre-recording a broadcast shift is called "tracking" and has been much criticized within the industry. In January 2011 Hamilton resigned his west coast "tracking" duties for MYfm because of personal fatigue and time restraints.
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