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HomeMy WebLinkAboutProject HOLD Sam Jones News ImportantProject HOLD WTAW Interview Sam Jones | WTAW General Air and Sales Manager 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. ------------------------------- 00:00:12 Tom Turbiville (TT) This is WTAW, the First 100 Years, I'm Tom Turbiville. News, it's always been serious business at WTAW, from 100 years ago to today. Throughout the years, especially the war years, both local news and world news was vitally important. Dick Bolin was a student at Texas A&M during the war years. 00:00:37 (DB) College Station, Texas, April 24, 1947, Dick Bolin talking. Any time now, the Big Four diplomats will be shoving off for Moscow. The conference of foreign minister… 00:00:47 (TT) … And to today. 00:00:49 Speaker 4 [Music] WTAW news time is 4 minutes after eight. It is 76 degrees… 00:00:53 (TT) … Well, back in the day, WTAW had a red station wagon that would go out and find the news. It was called Red Rover News. Sam Jones was both on air and sales manager at WTAW. 00:01:07 Sam Jones (SJ) Uh, and of course, WTAW was-- was always strong with news. They always had a local news department, even back in the day when, course, it was uh, a country station, and, you know, getting out and having, uh, having a local news director and local news reporters going out and getting the news. And of, eh, eh, of course, when the station went from country to, uh, to news talk, that, the news department just became that much more vital and grew that much more as people would turn to the station solely for news information and ultimately talk entertainment. 00:01:50 (TT) And that's why, still today we are… 00:01:53 Speaker 5 …for 1620 94.5 WTAW… 00:01:56 (TT) [Music]…the First 100 Years.