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I've Always Wondered...

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Sometime ago I remember reading a website about a religious station in the Altoona area. In the part about the history of the station, it listed the "late Sherwood Hawley" as a former owner. My mind went back to the early seventies when I met some of the people at WBFD in Bedford and I've always wondered...

I met two of the guys on the air who made quite a decent impression on me because they got along so well and were quite humorous in their interplay. One was Sherwood Hawley but the guy I met was young, trim and fit. Is this the guy they made reference to or was it a Sherwood Hawley, Sr.? If it was the guy I met, he seemed to be very physically fit. Anybody know what happened? The other guy was someone with a last name of Ingram. Anybody know about him? Is he still in the market? While there I met another guy who I thought I remembered as the owner of the station. He was a much older guy, maybe in his 60's at least. I think his last name was Ritchey. Is this the same guy I remember as an announcer on WFBG Channel 10 many years ago?

NO BAMA
 
I think you have a lot of parts floating around in your head that are not connected. Charlie RITCHEY worked for WFBG Television in the 50's and played Captain Sy Seaweed. Hap RITCHEY worked for WVAM FM and then WVAM AM in the 1970's then ended up at the Martinsburg Christian station. Ed SHERLOCK is a story too long for this post. Hap is still around and round, Charlie Ritchey is dead and not to be confused with Charlie Flynn who was a booth announcer for TV 10 when Captian Seaweed was on the air. He is also deceased. Sherlock might be better off if he were dead but he is not. Don't come on this site throwing random names around if you don't know what you're talking about.
 
Last I checked this was not FRYMAN-INFO.COM. Who made you the policeman of this site Fryman? The previous poster seems to want to use this site as it was designed to be, to provide information and discussion about our industry and the people in our industry from the region. I personally don't think you should be telling anyone what they should or should not be doing. I hope someone else on this site can answer that persons questions.
 
fryman info-com might not be a bad idea. I might seek some input from Jeff Speck on the matter. And no, if you don't know who the great Jeff Speck is by now, I am not about to tell you. Let me put it this way, the man was "King of Morning Radio News and all around funny guy". Just ask the underexercised women at Nutri System once they stop crying.
 
Dear Fryman:

I know who Hap Ritchey is and if I thought he and the older gentleman also named "Ritchie" were the same person, then I wouldn't have asked the question! Now Charlie Ritchie from WFBG, that's who I was thinking of, but is he the same guy at WBFD?

Ed Sherlock? Who mentioned Ed Sherlock??? He isn't involved in this discussion! Again. I know who Ed Sherlock is and if I thought he was aka "Sherwood Hawley" then I wouldn't have asked that question either!

I enjoy your comments generally, but I suspect you were having a bad day when you posted.
 
I was NOT having a bad day. I do believe that Sherwood Hawley and Ed Sherlock could be the same person. Nothing Sherlock could do would surprise me. SHERWOOD and SHERLOCK are very similiar names.
 
NOTHING, well here's a surprise, Ed Sherlock was and is the greatest broadcaster to have ever graced your ears FryWAAA, and if you can't accept that well then I have nothing more to type. Why it was Sherlock that brought us the,,,and we would never have heard,,,if it wasn't for Sherlock. He smokes you and Denny Pompa too!

SHERLOCK RULES
 
If not Fryman, then who? Who will be person enough to stand up and keep everyone straight. I like the idea of a cop here on the site. Even more exciting is the thought of a fryman-Info site. I find all this radio stuff very interesting. If I ever give up the satellite biz I might try my hand at being a radio broadcaster. Is anyone hiring part-time help.

Fryman, will you being doing the traditional deep fried Turkey at the Turkey Bowl
Wednesday evening at Mansion Park?
 
Indeed I will. Hopefully Skip "who in the hell dumped this shale in my yard" Dry will be on hand as usual. Last year he nearly blew out the PA system at the park. It might be interesting to find out who actually came up with the idea of the Turkey Bowl. This bowl actually goes back to the days of Tony "can the Jewish eat turkey" Booth.
 
Sherwood Hawley and Ed Sherlock are not the same person. I knew both of them and Sherwood Hawley was a very good friend . I also worked for him part time. He was co-owner of WJSM when it was SherWalt media. He sold his interest in WJSM and bought WAYC on 1600 When Cessna bought WBFD on 1310. The studios were all located in the Cessna complex. Sherwood died of an aneurism wile working at the station. Sherwood was also the voice of Bedford Village. He was a terrific person and also a real radio master. He is always remembered by us who knew him.
 
You may be right and it sounds like you know what you're talking about. I believe at one time Sherlock was using the name Sherwood Holley when he would hang out at the hot spots like Zach's. Apparently he felt the name was a "chick magnet". Thanks for keeping us straight on this danged board.
 
I see this is an old post, but many of the names match ones my grandmother has told me about. My grandfather was a radio and newsman in the 60's and I'm trying to find some footage. His name was Jim Gates and he worked with both Sherwood Hawley and Charlie Ritchie at WFBG broadcast from Wopsy Mountain. My mom was actually on the Sy Seaweed show. I would do anything to get that footage. Any idea on how to track this kind of thing down? Any leads would be greatly appreciated!
 
Old thread, I know, but a few things I can add . . . I believe that the only Ritchey that worked at WBFD in Bedford was Glenn B. Ritchey. He was the Station and Sales Manager at about that time. The Imgrund mentioned was probably Paul Imgrund who later bought the station after the Inquirer Printing Company had sold it. (If I remember correctly he bought it from the Rock family that bought it from Inquirer.) Other than Paul and Sherwood Hawley other people floating around WBFD-AM and her sister station WAKM-FM in the late '60's and early '70's would have been George Hull, John Cessna, Jay Cessna and a number of part-timers. (Can't remember the name of the gentleman that did the Saturday morning country show, and there were probably others I can't remember at the moment . . . )

Sherwood Hawley actually started at the station around the time it went on the air in 1955. He was at the Chambersburg station prior to that if I'm remembering what he told me correctly (it's been a LONG time). He was a great guy in addition to having the best set of pipes in the business in any market. The only vice I knew of was his addiction to cigarettes, very common for air talent back then, and that probably contributed to his untimely death. Someone mentioned that he might have been at WFBG but I don't believe so. (I left that area in the early '80's so it's possible that he did so after then?)
 
BigRed said:
Old thread, I know, but a few things I can add . . . I believe that the only Ritchey that worked at WBFD in Bedford was Glenn B. Ritchey. He was the Station and Sales Manager at about that time. The Imgrund mentioned was probably Paul Imgrund who later bought the station after the Inquirer Printing Company had sold it. (If I remember correctly he bought it from the Rock family that bought it from Inquirer.) Other than Paul and Sherwood Hawley other people floating around WBFD-AM and her sister station WAKM-FM in the late '60's and early '70's would have been George Hull, John Cessna, Jay Cessna and a number of part-timers. (Can't remember the name of the gentleman that did the Saturday morning country show, and there were probably others I can't remember at the moment . . . )

Sherwood Hawley actually started at the station around the time it went on the air in 1955. He was at the Chambersburg station prior to that if I'm remembering what he told me correctly (it's been a LONG time). He was a great guy in addition to having the best set of pipes in the business in any market. The only vice I knew of was his addiction to cigarettes, very common for air talent back then, and that probably contributed to his untimely death. Someone mentioned that he might have been at WFBG but I don't believe so. (I left that area in the early '80's so it's possible that he did so after then?)
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And I just remembered that the name of the Saturday morning country DJ at WBFD was Virgil Feight.
 
Speaking of Blair Broadcasting's Best

And what will we remember most about DiAndrea?
 
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