Post by John Quincy on Jun 12, 2008 16:29:10 GMT -5
From the CET (Cincinnati Educational Television) Website:
Since 1981 Gary Burbank was a mainstay on 700 WLW, creating memorable characters and bits that are part of Cincinnati Radio legend. Now you can discover more about the man behind Earl Pitts, Gilbert Gnarley and countless other characters.
Days before Gary Burbank retired from WLW Radio in December 2007, CET invited Burbank to sit down with John Kiesewetter, TV/Media writer for The Cincinnati Enquirer and someone who has followed Burbank throughout his career. They spent several hours talking about Burbank's career -- everything from his beginning in radio in his hometown of Memphis, Tenn., to his retirement from the airwaves in December of 2007.
For several of the episodes, Gary is joined by former co-worker Kevin "Doc" Wolfe, in particular for the interview in which he discusses how he came up with some of his on-air personalities as well as the funny phone calls and his daily "Sports or Consequences" trivia show.
Four 28 minute episodes may be watched online here:
www.cetconnect.org/burbank/index.asp
I just watched all four. Very enjoyable!
Since 1981 Gary Burbank was a mainstay on 700 WLW, creating memorable characters and bits that are part of Cincinnati Radio legend. Now you can discover more about the man behind Earl Pitts, Gilbert Gnarley and countless other characters.
Days before Gary Burbank retired from WLW Radio in December 2007, CET invited Burbank to sit down with John Kiesewetter, TV/Media writer for The Cincinnati Enquirer and someone who has followed Burbank throughout his career. They spent several hours talking about Burbank's career -- everything from his beginning in radio in his hometown of Memphis, Tenn., to his retirement from the airwaves in December of 2007.
For several of the episodes, Gary is joined by former co-worker Kevin "Doc" Wolfe, in particular for the interview in which he discusses how he came up with some of his on-air personalities as well as the funny phone calls and his daily "Sports or Consequences" trivia show.
Four 28 minute episodes may be watched online here:
www.cetconnect.org/burbank/index.asp
I just watched all four. Very enjoyable!