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Radio And TELEVISION Reports Hack Andy Potter, Sportscaster George Commo And Vermont Public TV President And CEO John King Will Be Inducted During The Annual VAB Awards Party November Nineteen In Burlington.
Burlington, VT A news correspondent, a sportscaster, a station executive and a mythical crooner have been named to the Vermont Association of Broadcasters Hall-Of-Fame.
Radio and TV reports correspondent Andy Potter, sportscaster George Commo and Vermont Public TV President and GENERAL MANAGER John King will be inducted during the annual VAB Awards Banquet Nov 19 in Burlington. Radio and movie star Rudy Vallee will be inducted posthumously.
Vallee was born in 1901 in Island Pond. A teenage bandleader, he drew attention with the band he started at Yale College, "Rudy Vallee and the Connecticut Yankees." In 1929, Vallee began hosting "The Fleischmann's Yeast hour" on NBC, later "The Royal Gelatin Hour." The show was one of the 2 most well liked programs in the country for the following a decade (the other being "Amos 'n' Andy"). His programme was first to present acts like Burns and Allen, Milton Berle, Kate Smith, the Mills Bros and Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.
His radio, stage and film career was lengthy. He worked into the early 1980's, when he occasionally served as the opening act for the Village Folk. Vallee passed away in 1986. His wife, Eleanor Vallee, said that she was excited with the VAB honor. "I'm so pleased and appreciative of this respect for my late hubby, my 'vagabond lover,'" she revealed from her home in Los Angeles "Vagabond Lover" was the name of Vallee's first film, in 1929. She said she is planning on attending the event.
The recently-retired Andy Potter is a legend among news reporters in Vermont. He started his radio career while attending Middlebury College in the mid-1960's. After serving in Vietnam, he came back to Vermont, where he brought his reporting talents to a range of radio stations, including WJOY, WDOT and WKDR among others . He carved a second career on The television, where he used to be a longtime senior journalist for WCAX in Burlington.
George Commo is a six-time winner of the Vermont Sportscaster of the Year award and is also a member of the Vermont Press Association Hall-Of-Fame. George has been a radio and TV sportscaster since the early 1970's and was the longtime voice of UVM Hockey and Vermont minor league baseball. Since 1998, he's been covering Norwich Varsity Hockey for WDEV.Among his fans and peers, George is considered one of the greatest hockey play-by-play sportscasters to ever climb behind a mic.
John King joined VPT in 1987 and has served as President and MANAGER since 1998. He also serves on the PBS Board of Directors and has served as Chairperson of the Vermont TV Broadcasters Co-location Association. He is credited with helping to form a robust bond between public and private broadcasting in Vermont.
WDEV Radio in Waterbury has been named the "Broadcaster of the Year" for 2011. The station did an incredible job of keeping the general public informed during and following Tropical Storm Irene. Their around-the-clock coverage of the disaster is credited with saving lives and keeping people informed.
John Likakis, Director Of WBTN-AM in Bennington is also being famed for outstanding coverage of Tropical Typhoon Irene. Likakis is one of 2 winners of the VAB's Distinguished Service Award. Likakisand station volunteers at WBTN provided vital information to their community before, during and following the tempest. For days, they were the only link between local emergency officials and stranded voters.
The other Distinguished Service Award will be presented to Ginny McGehee of WJOY radio in Burlington. Ginny is the longest-serving female radio character in Vermont history, having started at WJOY in 1983. Her radio family wouldn't think of beginning the day without her good humour and upbeat approach. She's served her community in alternative routes as a board member of Champlain Valley Crimestoppers and the Vermont and New Hampshire Valley chapter of the North American Red Cross.
The Alan Noyes Community Service Award is going to WJJR-FM in Rutland for their superb yearly Gift-of-life blood drive. WJJR personalities Terry Jaye and Nanci Gordon helped collect 1,400 pints of blood in one day last December, breaking a New England record set in Boston. The yearly drive has been a focal point of community involvement in Rutland. The regional and national record has after that been eclipsed by Manchester, New Hampshire. This year's drive is lined up for December 20.
Two other Community Service Awards will be presented to WOKO-FM and ABC22 / FOX44-TV.
WOKO radio in Burlington has been conducting their "Big Change Round-up for Kids" for seven years. Last year, the station raised an astounding $206,000 for the Vermont Children's Surgery at Fletcher Allen. The annual campaign terminates in a four-day radiothon.
ABC22 / FOX44 is being honored for organising a telethon for June eight that raised more than $45,000 for the local Red Cross. The stations took action when columnist Natalie Paterson came back from covering damage from Vermont's spring floods and asked General Manager Vic Vetters what the stations could do to help their neighbors. The telethon helped replace the local Red Cross coffers at a critical time.
The Vermont Association of Broadcasters has been representing the interests of radio and television broadcasters in Vermont since 1956. For full info about the VAB, including ticket information for the November nineteen event, feel free to visit the website at www.vab.org., writes tagza.com.
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