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Texas Radio Hall of Fame

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The second round of voting is now underway for 2010 inductees into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame. The list of nominess & ballot are posted on their website. Membership is required to be eligible vote. A lifetime membership is 15.00.

I'd like to put in a good word for two that I nominated.

Brad Barton (30+yrs at KRLD 1080, now at WBAP 820/96.7) At KRLD he served (at various times as) reporter, news anchor, traffic reporter, assistant news director, acting news director & of course chief meteorologist. At WBAP since 2009. He is their chief meteorologist.

Bud Buschardt (WFAA 570 & KVIL 1150/103.7) 57 Nostalgia Place on WFAA 570 in the mid 1970's , KVIL Oldies Show for 10 years starting in 1981 , program director of ABC's Timeless format 1989 - 2007. Guest on many shows & behind the scenes on many shows.

Ballots must be fax marked or post marked before July 17th.
 
That's because it's the hall of fame, not the hall of little people who did their jobs well and made everyone else a lot of money.
 
Although it's a great compliment to have been nominated, I have to think Tom Allen, Bo and Jim, Don Couser, Crash Collins, George Cooper, Henry Guerra, Ron Houston, Ed Mayberry, Redbeard, Mike Richardson, Jim Ryan, Johnny Shannon, Larry Shannon, Mike Shannon, Mark Watkins, Jim White, Jim White and Jim Rose have a LOT more business being in the hall than I ever will... unless the criteria are the number of times fired and the number of people p***ed off... in that case I'd be a shoo-in. ;D
 
If I had a vote, Willis Johnson and Ralph Cooper would be on my list. Maybe Tom Joyner as well.
 
One behind the scene guy nomated since the Klif days is Craig Slayton, from Klif, Z-97, KVIL, to KLOS and now back at the CBS group.
 
Bud Buschardt DEFINITELY needs to be inducted. He is the consumate radio man. Studied the stuff in college, did radio and TV, teaches it at UNT, and actually retired from ABC with a pension.
 
I believe Bud is in the "Hall of Honor," which is sort of a Honorable Mention category. Even though it's stressed every year that those folks are fully eligible to be inducted as a full-fledged member of the TRHOF, I think some folks overlook them or figure they're in already. That's NOT the case!!

Please consider, too, that there's not much of a "minority" presence in the TRHOF. By that, I mean WOMEN as well. Joe Bagby, Tom Joyner, Willis Johnson...all are longtime contributors to the DFW radio market, and each has gone above and beyond over the years to become part of their community. Each deserves to be in, and should have been years ago. Now to the LADIES...Nancy Johnson posted here a few weeks back that the TRHOF is severely lacking in celebrating the notable female talent in this state, and I wholeheartedly agree. Besides Nancy, Tempie and all the others who provided those soft and sultry voices over the years, I think we should also consider inducting two female broadcast pioneers: Laurel Ornish and Mary Stoddard. Laurel achieved a lot of firsts in this market as a female, especially in radio news, and Mary was the first female FCC-licensed jock in DFW (at KVIL in their earliest days.) Besides, both are classy ladies who, unfortunately, have had their accomplishments largely forgotten over the decades since...but without them paving the way, who knows how the local radio landscape might have turned out? (Remember, we didn't even have a regular female TV news anchor in this town until 1973.)

Others mentioned...Tyler Cox, sure, of course. He'll be in it very soon, if not this year, I'm sure. Craig Slayton, yes, I like to see behind-the-scenes people get in, and Craig's put in plenty of successful years in engineering (although I don't trust his ear when it comes to compressing KLUV!!) As for me, I'll say it again---my contribution to the industry (the knus99.com website) is a compilation of what YOU all did and still do in and for the radio industry. I just report it, and try to honor it and not let others forget about it. I just don't think this little contribution of mine is worthy of an induction...but I feel very honored that someone thought enough of me to put me on the list! (And no, I did NOT vote for myself, thank you.) :)
 
:)Thanks for the nice words Mike. Hope more women are nominated and inducted in the future. Not me, of course, but so many others deserve the honors.
 
MikeShannon914 said:
As for me, I'll say it again---my contribution to the industry (the knus99.com website) is a compilation of what YOU all did and still do in and for the radio industry. I just report it, and try to honor it and not let others forget about it. I just don't think this little contribution of mine is worthy of an induction...
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Maybe for a website hall of fame. But for a radio hall of fame? Wouldn't your accomplishsments have to be in radio to make it in the radio HOF?

Or maybe we can get a parking attendant from the Ballpark elected into the baseball HOF.

Or maybe Jeff K can get elected to the Hockey HOF because he plays such great ::) music during stars games...

For those that think Mike deserves a vote, tell me why. What has he done, on the radio, that makes him hall-of-fame worthy?
 
little1 said:
Or maybe Jeff K can get elected to the Hockey HOF because he plays such great ::) music during stars games...

For those that think Mike deserves a vote, tell me why. What has he done, on the radio, that makes him hall-of-fame worthy?
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No, don't waste your breath. You won't convince little1 regardless of what you say.
 
Nah, I'm just the Parking Attendant of Radio. Leave it to L1 to find a way to strip someone of any ounce of pride. No amount of self-deprecation is ever enough, right? There's always a cheap place to hit, right below the belt. If anyone knows who Little1 is, please vote for him/her for the TRHOF. If I managed to get in before him/her, we'd see a lifelong berating of the whole TRHOF process and how it must be rigged or how I must have friends on the inside.

If I didn't make the point clearly enough earlier, I would feel pretty bad if I was voted in before plenty of others more deserving were (and I can count about a hundred of those offhand, just in this market.)
 
MikeShannon914 said:
Nah, I'm just the Parking Attendant of Radio. Leave it to L1 to find a way to strip someone of any ounce of pride. No amount of self-deprecation is ever enough, right? There's always a cheap place to hit, right below the belt. If anyone knows who Little1 is, please vote for him/her for the TRHOF. If I managed to get in before him/her, we'd see a lifelong berating of the whole TRHOF process and how it must be rigged or how I must have friends on the inside.

If I didn't make the point clearly enough earlier, I would feel pretty bad if I was voted in before plenty of others more deserving were (and I can count about a hundred of those offhand, just in this market.)
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Don't know who little one is, but, Mike, you are deserving of all the Compliments, Commendations, etc, that you receive on this Disscussion Board.
 
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