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Newsman Bill Brady from the 80s

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yugoidar

Does anyone have any idea what happened to Bill Brady, a Rochester radio news guy from the early 80s. As I recall, he had a fairly stylized presentation and was quite a writer.

The reason I ask is that I noticed a William Brady in the credits of the CBS-TV news show "Sunday Morning" this past Sunday and wondered if it was the same guy.

Anybody know?
 
yugoidar said:
Does anyone have any idea what happened to Bill Brady, a Rochester radio news guy from the early 80s. As I recall, he had a fairly stylized presentation and was quite a writer.

The reason I ask is that I noticed a William Brady in the credits of the CBS-TV news show "Sunday Morning" this past Sunday and wondered if it was the same guy.

Anybody know?
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The name Bill Brady doesn't ring a bell with me. What station did he work for?
 
Bill Brady did news on WBBF in its early 1980's news and talk era. (Sally Jessy Raphael/Bruce Williams Talknet among others.) Brady was quite good. I seem to remember him being there right around the time when Matt Rinaldi and Jeff Howlett were doing mornings together there (I think that's right), before Howlett departed for WHAM.

I think Bill Brady must have been gone well before the late 80's; I remember asking Jeff about him when he hired me part-time at WHAM (still over on East Ave.) in mid-1988. He spoke fondly of Bill Brady at that time.

(My time at WHAM ended up being only that summer as I had to rush over there from my day job. When hours got long there, I had to quit the part-time gig as the boss didn't quite like me rushing out the door every day. I'm not sure he ever knew what I was up to or if he recognized me on the air since I was not using my own name. Oh ... and to dredge up an old topic, I'm pretty sure those checks said Lincoln Group on them.)
 
Bill Brady was my news anchor when I did morning drive on WBBF News/Talk 950 in 1985 and 1986. When the station laid off the entire staff and went oldies in early 1986 Bill departed, and IIRC he went to work for his former boss Rand Gottlieb in Minneapolis. I lost track of him after that - I want to say he had landed at WCCO?
 
I heard second-hand that he may be working as sales manager of Clear Channel's Palm Beach/West Palm Beach cluster these days. Can anyone confirm that?

Bill was definitely a class act in Rochester...before getting back into the news/talk radio game myself, I actually had the pleasure of being a guest on a midday talk show he produced and Toby Gold hosted on WBBF, when I was working with the Urban League as author of a report on public school reform in Rochester. (Truth to tell, that appearance started me thinking about leaving the business management world and returning to radio, although I didn't actually do it for another few years.)

Speaking of which, anyone know where Toby Gold is these days?
 
I met Bill Brady, when he worked at WBTA, in Batavia. He was covering Bills games for the station and I got to know him in the press box.

When I did my short-lived stint at WBBF in 1982, Bill did news and a daily lifestyle feature called "Man About Town."

Bill and Jeff Howlett were two of the best things I remember, from those days which I try to forget.

Incidentally, I believe Bill is a North Tonawanda native!
 
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