Kiwanis to Host the Golden Days of Broadcasting
By Editor at July 21, 2024 | 10:00 am | Print
The public and radio-TV broadcasters are invited by co-Emcees Bill Hennessey and Steve Parker and guest speaker Brad Davis (WDRC AM 1360) to share memories with them of The Golden Days of Broadcasting on July 30 at 7 PM in the Great Room of the Paradise Pizza Restaurant, 10 East St., New Britain.
Those who wish to dine should come earlier and may order from the restaurant’s regular menu. Admission is free and walk-ins are welcome.
It will be a nostalgic stroll down Broadcast Memory Lane. Invited are the “Bunch of Old Broadcasters” of the Arch Street Tavern. Invited also are contemporary TV and radio people whether air persons, editors, reporters, engineers, office or sales people, also the WDRC, WPOP & WTIC Reunioners who may wish to add their “two cents,” perhaps to reveal a current “behind the scenes” hush-hush tidbit or one from broadcasting’s “Golden Years.” Folks from other media are welcome as well.
Steve Parker and Bill Hennessey will invite the audience to add their own personal memories of the years when local greats like Mitch Betters, Bob Steele, Bob Ellsworth, Ben Hawthorne, Sereno Gammell, Una King, Joe Girand, Ivor Hugh, Dick Bertel, Arnold Dean, Charlie Parker and other talented stars shone brightly on Connecticut’s radio airways.
Co-emcee Bill Hennessey is a former Channel 30 news anchor and was a WTIC staffer for many years. He is more recently known as Connecticut’s “Ambassador of the Lottery.” and the “Voice of the Crowley Motor Group.”
Steve Parker, now the co-host of CT style on News 8 WTNH at 12:30, was at WDRC for many years and later a talk-show host on WPOP. He also volunteers at Newington’s NCTV and is frequently an MC at community events. He is the son of the late Charlie Parker, legendary Program Director of WDRC in Hartford.
This event is another of the Kiwanis Club’s free Public Forum Nights, which started in 1986 and is presented monthly in the public interest. Those who wish to dine may want to come earlier. Information, call 860-667-2864 Kiwanis Program Chairman Al Cohen.
