Radio Fun

My week of nostagia continues. I was listening to my lifetime favorite Christian radio station http://www.wpel.org/ this morning when "RANGER BILL!!!! WARRIOR OF THE WOODLANDS!!!!!" blared from speakers. I loved that show, Ranger Bill. Children's Bible Hour was my absolute favorite . I got to see "Uncle Charlie and the CBH cousins" when they came to what is now known as Davis College in Johnson City. I used to write CBH every week after the show for quite a while. WPEL still runs Ranger Bill. Children's Bible Hour as I knew it is off the air. It was replaced with "Down Gilliad Lane" a drama. Uncle Charlie though can still be heard on the devotional show "Keys for Kids" http://www.cbhministries.org/ I'm listening to WPEL right now. Many of the announcers are the same when I was listening to it as a child. LaVerne Sollick and Patty and Larry Souder, are just a few names I listened to growing up. The same goes for WNBF radio. http://www.wnbf.com/ I was listening to Roger Neel and Tony Russell yesterday. I remembered Roger broadcasting the what was then the Broome Dusters hockey games when I was little. "HE SCORES!!!!!" still resonates in my mind. He's on the morning show now. Growing up we used to listening to John Leslie in the morning before school. My brother Jeremy and I were named storms on the Accu Weather segment with Joe Sobel. Jeremy as I remember was a pretty bad winter storm. I don't think mine was that bad. Of course, my favorite radio announcer of my childhood was MY DAD :). For 3 years, he was the weekend announcer for WSKG FM, our local public radio station. I know my interest in a broadcasting career started with listening to Dad on the radio and going to visit him while he was working. Dad was a great encourager of my chosen career path. I was just thinking that in December it will be 25 years since I started my 1st internship and my Explorer group. I'll describe some of those experiences another time. Those days were so much fun! OK now that I'm feeling old and sentimental I'll close.

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Still Single After All These Years said…
Such lovely memories--what a blessing!
April 10, 2011 at 11:46 AM
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