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WTAW Interview
Mary Hatcher | WTAW Senior Sales Rep
Tom Turbiville | WTAW Radio Host
Daniel Hayes | Transcriber
Transcript
00:00:00 Dick Bolin (DB)
Here's the latest news from the Associated Press. Anytime now, the big-
00:00:03 Speaker 2
WTAW will join new businesses from across the Brazos Valley.
00:00:07 Speaker 3
Aggies win 74-72. Here's your ride.
00:00:12 Speaker 4
16.20 WTAW.
00:00:15 Tom Turbiville (TT)
This is WTAW The First 100 Years. I'm Tom Turbiville. Mary Mike Hatcher is a senior sales rep
for WTAW, but her career started in both sales and on the air with Joe Monroe. Yeah, she was
Meyer of Muck and Meyer in the mornings and has been coming to work at WTAW for 45 years,
the most continuous years of anyone. But she tells how then owner Papa John Hicks almost cut
that short.
00:00:44 Mary Hatcher (MH)
You know, I-I guess I wasn't moving along as rapidly as he wanted me to in my sales journey. So,
I was only here about, oh, two months, and the word came down from Papa Hicks. Get rid of her.
Fire her. So, Joe Monroe had the distinct pleasure of having the talk with me. So, he asked me to
meet him. at the Ptarmigan Club about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. He bought me my very first
scotch and water. This is Joe Monroe. And he said, well, you know, they just they want they just
want you to move, a-a you know, just they have these high expectations for you and your billing
is not just where it needs to be. I said, Joe, give me a chance. And he said, I believe in you. And
he went back and told the powers that be I believe in her. So, he stood behind me. And within six
months, I was probably the number two producer still in my first year of radio sales.
00:01:50 TT
Well, it has worked out pretty good for Mary Mike Hatcher, 45 years later at WTAW, the first
100 years.