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HomeMy WebLinkAboutScott DeLucia Chooses Radio Transcript, WTAW First 100 Years Project HOLD WTAW Interview Scott DeLucia | Former WTAW Program Director 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. WTAW Scott DeLucia is by far the longest serving voice at WTAW and it was in the late 60s that young Scott made the choice between a newspaper career and a radio career while he was a part-timer at the Eagle newspaper. 00:00:35 Scott DeLucia (SD) And so accidentally after I'd been working there for a few months, I opened the drawer and there was the check stub for my sports editor and I saw what he was making a week and I said, I ain't going to do this for the rest of my life, that's for sure. So, I decided to go starve in radio rather than starve in newspaper. 00:00:51 TT So on to radio and his first early morning shift. 00:00:55 SD And then I grew up to the point where I could do sunrise. I could do 6 A.m. to 12 noon on WTAW. Which was really great. I got 6 hours, but I didn't have to work much. If I thought about it, I probably could remember exactly what the format was, but we had 30-minute transcriptions. We had church services. We had tapes to play. And so out of that 6 hours, and then we had Central Baptist Church, it would start at 11 o'clock. And so, as a result, I was only talking about an hour and a half out of that 6 hours. So that was a sweet gig as far as I was concerned. 00:01:27 TT Oh, and for Scott, that included Sunday mornings. 00:01:30 SD I was playing country music, right? We would have the preacher talking, and then we would have Merle Haggard about being drunk right after that. So that was, that was perfect as far as I was concerned. 00:01:38 TT Scott DeLucia was first hired at WTAW Radio in 1968 when he was a junior at A&M Consolidated doing color for Console football. And now he is the senior statesman of local radio in Bryan-College Station and still on WTAW. This is the first 100 years.