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WTAW Interview
Dick Bolin |
Tom Turbiville | WTAW Radio Host
Laura Quezada | Transcriber
00:00:00 Dick Bolin (DB)
Here's the latest news from the Associated Press. Anytime now, the big…
[Unintelligible news broadcaster speaking]
00:00:07 Speaker 2
Aggies win 74-72! Here's your…
00:00:12 Speaker 3
…1620 WTAW.
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00:00:17 Tom Turbiville (TT)
This is WTAW, the First 100 Years, I'm Tom Turbiville. Of my nearly 20 years with WTAW, one
of the most memorable days was when I was invited to Navasota to join in a reunion of WTAW
on-air alums from the 1940s. I spent the day with Dick Bolin, Tom Jurnee, Conrad Behring, and
John Holman. They are all gone now, but they each left such a lasting memory. Back then,
WTAW folks were students and doubled as writers for the A&M student paper, The Battalion.
They had left the YMCA building by then and now worked out of the administration building,
and they still, though, were rivals in news gathering, says Dick Bolin.
00:01:03 (DB)
But there wasn't particularly any cooperation or interaction between the two. The only real
connection was those of us who happened to work for both. The best memories I have of the
newspaper, doing feature stories, and, uh, we had a chance to go after we, uh, got the stories and
everything together, we had to go down to the basement to the print shop, and we could work
with the linotype man down there and put the paper together.
00:01:31 (TT)
As a matter of fact, it was a battalion article written by Tom Jurnee in 1942 that was titled ,
“WTAW, Despite Humble Start, Now Plays Important Part in Southwest Radio”. Well, that
article still stands today as one of our main sources of history here at WTAW. The First 100
Years.