Melloy, Jerry David

Date:
2014-12-10
Length:
88 minutes
Interviewer:
Fox, Jack
Transcription available:
no
Series:
WHAS Radio
Series ID:
2014_163
Interview Number(s):
2014_163_14
Summary:
Jerry Melloy starts the interview by explaining how he got interested in radio, before pivoting over to his joining of the WHAS in 1966 as a staff announcer after he was hired by George Walsh, and Sam Gifford. Melloy spends much of the interview discussing the various different people he worked with, people such as Van Vance, Harold DeArmond, and Jim Walton. Later on in the interview, Melloy discusses the Jeff Douglas' tragic suicide, and its effects on the station. In the final part of the interview, Melloy recounts how the WHAS gained its own identity, separate from the T.V. station, remembering fondly how many called it the, "Sleeping Giant."
Topic(s):
WHAS-Radio (Louisville, Ky.), Radio broadcasting