WTRN-AM Online Display of My Grandfather's Radio Career
This has nothing to do with running, but it does have a lot to do with me!
The two individuals that have had the most to do with me having the media and public relations knowledge that I do are my father, Will Walk, III and my grandfather, Will Walk, Jr.
My grandfather turned 83 years old this past April and at the beginning of August, he will extend his media career to 67 years when he mans the airwaves of WTRN-AM in Tyrone, Pennsylvania for Tyrone's Community Day at Delgrosso's Amusement Park.
Before he went off to fight in World War II, my grandfather was involved in both radio and photography. At the end of the War, he spent six months in then-Czechoslovakia (Pilsan) on the Armed Forces Radio Network before helping build four (4) radio stations in central Pennsylvania. On WTRN in the early 50's, he was the "Rush Limbaugh" of his day in that part of the state.
If you'll point your browser to http://www.wtrn.net/, you'll see a display that has been put together by the Tyrone Historical Society. One is for all of the employees over the past 51 years and the other is completely on my grandfather.
At the end of the 2000 football season, I did two (2) Internet-only broadcasts of TAPPS state championship football games at Baylor's Floyd Casey Stadium in Waco. One of the games my father did the color commentary while I handled the play-by-play duties. But for both games, I had my Dad, my grandfather and my daughter in the press box with me.
The two individuals that have had the most to do with me having the media and public relations knowledge that I do are my father, Will Walk, III and my grandfather, Will Walk, Jr.
My grandfather turned 83 years old this past April and at the beginning of August, he will extend his media career to 67 years when he mans the airwaves of WTRN-AM in Tyrone, Pennsylvania for Tyrone's Community Day at Delgrosso's Amusement Park.
Before he went off to fight in World War II, my grandfather was involved in both radio and photography. At the end of the War, he spent six months in then-Czechoslovakia (Pilsan) on the Armed Forces Radio Network before helping build four (4) radio stations in central Pennsylvania. On WTRN in the early 50's, he was the "Rush Limbaugh" of his day in that part of the state.
If you'll point your browser to http://www.wtrn.net/, you'll see a display that has been put together by the Tyrone Historical Society. One is for all of the employees over the past 51 years and the other is completely on my grandfather.
At the end of the 2000 football season, I did two (2) Internet-only broadcasts of TAPPS state championship football games at Baylor's Floyd Casey Stadium in Waco. One of the games my father did the color commentary while I handled the play-by-play duties. But for both games, I had my Dad, my grandfather and my daughter in the press box with me.
posted by WalkSports.com | 3:42 AM
3 Comments:
cool!
Just out of curiosity (and part of an ongoing sociological experiment), is there a "Quad" or "Ivey" Walk? Will Walk IV?
Well, I would have been the IV but my mother asked the question, "What would we call him?"
She had her own mind made up with Jon and wasn't going to be deterred.
And sociologically and physically, I don't think that there's going to be a IV offspring here. At an earlier point in time, there was some desire to but that has passed by -- sadly, to some extent.
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