Texas Radio Hall Of Fame Changes Hands

Texas Radio Hall of Fame

After announcing over the summer that he would be relinquishing control of the TEXAS RADIO HALL OF FAME (NET NEWS 7/1), owner/Operations Manager JOSH “ROWDY YATES” HOLSTEAD revealed his successor during the show’s virtual celebration of its 2020 honorees on SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7th. He has transferred control of the organization to new Executive Dir. DOUG HARRIS, a broadcast marketing/promotions specialist and owner/Chief Creative Officer of HOUSTON-based NOISEMAKER COMMUNICATIONS and CREATIVE ANIMAL INTERNATIONAL. HARRIS is also a HALL OF FAME MEMBER, having been inducted in 2011.

HOLSTEAD has operated the organization since 2012, but been involved since its beginning in 2001.

“We’ve been watching DOUG HARRIS work for some time,” said HOLSTEAD. “DOUG’s service to arts and professional organizations like THE HOUSTONB FiLM CRITICS SOCIETY and ARTISTS FOR ARTISTS has helped these groups and others reach new levels, and that’s what we want our future to look like. In advance of our 20th anniversary, we’re ready to kick up some dust and he will be our Dust Kicker-In-Chief.”

“JOSH and his advisory board have done an amazing job keeping the power of great radio top of mind with TEXAS listeners and advertisers,” said HARRIS. “Our job now is to reconfirm radio’s critical role in American life and recruit the next generation of Hall of Famers.”

The TEXAS RADIO HALL OF FAME recognizes career professionals in virtually all aspects of the radio industry who have achieved excellence at stations licensed in the state. It also promotes interest in broadcasting as a career path, and generates awareness of the TEXAS MUSEUM OF BROADCASTING AND COMMUNICATIONS in KILGORE, TX.

SATURDAY’s ceremony honored 20 new inductees: SHOW DOG NASHVILLE Dir./SOUTHWEST Regional Promotion (and former broadcaster) GREG SAX; WACO/WACO, TX morning co-host ZACK OWEN; BILL GARDNER (KVIL/KLLS/KNUS); CHRIS ARNOLD (KKDA/KRLD/KTCK); JIMMY STEWART (WBAP/KSCS); FRED PEAVY (KKBQ); HAL MCCLAIN (KENR/KULF/KMCO); MIKE CANNON (KENR/KIKR/ASTROS RADIO NETWORK); NEAL TALMADGE (KTRH/KILT/TEXANS RADIO NETWORK); PAM KEHOE (KTRH/KILT/KKBQ); RALPH COOPER (KCOH); BAMA BROWN (KVET/KPEZ); RICK UPTON (KONO/KITY/KTFM); GIL GARCIA (KEYI/KERV/KZFM); BILL LEGRAND (KLDE/KRMX/KULF); BLANQUITA CULLUM (KTSA/KITE/KSJL); PAUL BEANE (KSEL/KFYO/KRBL); STEVE “STEVE-O” DONOHOE (KOLE); J.C. STALLINGS (KEEE/KJCS); and JIM GIBBS (KIVY/WFAA).

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