Aubrey Morris did a lot of good things during his thirty-plus career as news director at WSB radio. But when a reader urged me to commemorate his passing last week at age 88, he recounted a story that any modern-day local-news broadcast type will recognize. This passage comes from Gene Asher’s book, Legends: Georgians who [...]
Archive for the ‘WSB-AM’ Category
14 Jan
Wonky WABE
I left local news in 2007 and returned in 2009. When I began covering stories again, I noticed one eye-opening change in the news market. Radio news is different. WSB radio was the most relevant radio game in town in 2007. Nowadays, that relevance seems to belong to WABE. I used to run into WSB [...]
7 Dec
Mourning Mike Kavanagh
Longtime WSB radio reporter and “Money Matters” host Mike Kavanagh died at his suburban Atlanta home Saturday. He was 57. The AJC reports that Kavanagh was decorating his home for the holidays when he suffered a fatal heart attack. WSB radio’s web site has a nice tribute to Kavanagh, a 40 year veteran of radio [...]
27 Oct
WSB radio woes
WSB radio showed the door to a couple of experienced Atlanta news guys last week. Jeff Dantre and Kerry Browning were laid off. Browning had been at WSB radio since Jimmy Carter’s presidency. Cox Radio also laid off some FM DJs. It wasn’t that long ago that Atlanta had two vigorously competitive radio news organizations. [...]
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