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WTAW Interview
Bill Hicks |WTAW Owner
Tom Turbiville | WTAW Radio Host
Daniel Hayes | Transcriber
Transcript
00:00:00 Dick Bolin (DB)
College Station, Texas, April 24th, 1947. Dick Bolin talking. Here's the latest news from the
Associated Press. Now, the big-
00:00:07 Speaker 2
WTAW joined with businesses from across the Brazos Valley.
00:00:11 Speaker 3
Aggies win 74-72! Here's your ride!
00:00:16 Speaker 4
16.20 WTAW.
00:00:19 Tom Turbiville (TT)
This is WTAW, the first 100 years. I'm Tom Turbiville. Most of you don't recall, but your
parents or grandparents may have told you about the popular TV shows that started on radio.
Shows like The Lone Ranger, Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, Red Skelton, Ozzie and Harriet.
When those shows left radio, well, radio had to fill that time. Our owner, Bill Hicks, knows
about that history and how it led to stations like WTAW to change 50 years ago to news
intensive.
00:00:51 Bill Hicks (BH)
Your news department had to be at every city council meeting, every county commissioner
meeting, at every event going on in the community, what they would do is a red rover, some sort
of red painted vehicle, red station wagon, later van, and the news director would be out with his
recording microphone, recording the event and trying to get that information to the public. That
would be interspersed with music commercials. Radio evolved into that in the 60s. Prior to that,
it was more of a block programming until television came along. That's where all the-the-the
comedy programs, the drama programs, they were all on radio. They were national radio
products. Well, once television c-came into being, those programs all went to television. And
then radio became a different product. Radio became music, information type of product.
WTAW was its strongest in the 60s and 70s.
00:01:52 TT
And still the news leader, WTAW, the first 100 years.