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WTAW Interview
Keith Kane | WTAW and Bryan Broadcasting Member
Tom Turbiville | WTAW Radio Host
Laura Quezada | Transcriber
00:00:00 Dick Bolin (DB)
[Music] College Station, Texas, April 24th, 1947, Dick Bolin talking. Here's the latest news from
the Associated Press…
00:00:07 Associated Press (AP)
He got a touchdown! Oh, doctor!
00:00:10 Speaker 3
…News and Talk, WTAW.
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00:00:13 Tom Turbiville (TT)
This is WTAW, the First 100 Years, I'm Tom Turbiville. Keith Kane has been with Bryan
Broadcasting for 17 consecutive years now, working mainly with WTAW's many, many partner
stations. But rewind to his first exposure to WTAW, he was actually working for a competing
station.
00:00:35 Keith Kane (KK)
I will say that they were very big into local sports, and we had two sports broadcasts , uh, booked
at the same time, one on the AM, one on the FM. Well, we only had the one remote van. I think
that Bill Watkins still owned the station, and our station owner called him and asked, “we have a
two out of three-baseball series being played at A&M Consolidated. If we shoot a remote signal
from the baseball field over there to the WTAW studios, can we have somebody over there with a
receiver to feed it down the phone line so we can broadcast it”? Bill Watkins said, “Well, sure,
we'd be glad to help out”. The problem is he didn't tell anybody else. I lost the coin flip; I was the
one that had to go to WTAW. It was over on Mobile Avenue at that time. I walk in and no one
knows anything. So, I drop Bill Watkins name, and they go find him somewhere back in the back
of the station, and he comes out and goes, “Oh, oh, yes, yes, yes, he's going to be here for a
while. Let's let you use the desk here and the phone at the receptionist desk”. I had a steady
stream of people coming by that desk asking me what I was doing there, who I was, giving me
some really suspicious sideways glances.
00:01:53 (TT)
Well, for 17 years now, Keith Kane has been, well, part of the family at WTAW, the First 100
Years.