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WTAW Interview
Ben Downs | WTAW General Manager
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…
[Unintelligible news broadcaster speaking]
00:00:06 Speaker 2
The Aggies win 74-72! Here's your ri…
00:00:12 Speaker 3
…1620 WTAW.
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00:00:15 Tom Turbiville (TT)
This is WTAW, the First 100 Years, I'm Tom Turbiville. From before WTAW became WTAW,
sports broadcasting has been a big deal and still is, especially on Friday nights where our Bryan
Broadcasting family of stations airs live football play -by-play of seven Brazos Valley high
schools. General Manager Ben Downs talks about the history of all that.
00:00:42 Ben Downs (BD)
Little known fact is that we're actually licensed to the City of College Station. And so that was
kind of how we divided things up, the other company-- the other broadcasting company in town
gets the Bryan games, and we got the College Station games, the Consolidated games. As time
went on and we got more stations and we bought more stations and we put more signals on the
air, slowly but surely, we decided to make a really big investment into it. And so, we got them all
now, we have all four of the local high schools, their high school play by play. And, uh, we also
do Navasota and we do, um, St. Joseph's and we do the Buffalo Bison on our station down in-- in
Buffalo. So yeah, yeah, we made a big commitment to high school sports. And in 2006, we made
our move and we became the flagship of Texas A&M Athletics, which I guess is the subject for
another show.
00:01:38 (TT)
Well, yes, a matter of fact, it is, because Bryan Broadcasting now broadcasts 6 varsity sports of
Texas A&M Athletics. So, stay tuned. That is another show on WTAW, the First 100 Years.