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Home My WebLink AboutProject HOLD Bill OliverProject HOLD WTAW Radio Bill Oliver | WTAW News Director Tom Turbiville | WTAW Radio Host Laura Quezada | Transcriber 00:00:00 Dick Bolin (DB) [Music] College Station, Texas, April 24, 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. For more than 100 years, news has been the cornerstone of WTAW. At our birth, it was pretty much all Texas A&M news ; they owned the station after all. But by the 1940s, it was local news, war news; Red Rover news, we called it. Today, Bill Oliver is in his 13th year covering news, 10 as the news director, and he brought with him a lot of experience that serves our listeners well. 00:00:42 Bill Oliver (BO) Bryan Broadcasting, in the cities that I cover, get the benefit of the experiences that I had before I came here, covering communities in four other states; learning from people who I still visit with even today, decades after working with or for them, and that combination of experiences matches the philosophy that those who brought me here and have kept me here, been a wonderful relationship because of that. 00:01:12 (TT) Certainly, COVID has been the big story of the last couple of years, but the big picture has brought plenty of changes. 00:01:18 (BO) The immediacy of what COVID did, but I go back to the last 12 years, seeing what, three Texas A&M presidents and an almost complete turnover of the College Station City Council, a complete turnover of the Bryan City Council, an almost complete turnover of Branson County Commission, an almost complete turnover to A&M System Board of Regents and multiple administrators. I guess there's still one public information officer that I've dealt with since the beginning, but everybody else in that group has changed. 00:01:53 (TT) Local news, the one constant of WTAW, the First 100 Years.