As we approach our 70th Anniversary at 1230 WBVP and 1460 WMBA, Beaver County Radio presents a series of live interviews with past and present staff to recollect the great history and memorable moments on WBVP and WMBA. On Tuesday May 22, 2018 during Teleforum with Frank Sparks he will have the following guests on air………

Before taking the Pittsburgh morning market by storm for three decades, Jim Merkel had his radio start at WMBA in the mid-1970s. He returns to his roots on May 22 at 9:10 as he sits down with Frank Sparks to discuss the beginnings of his long and distinguished career.

 

Current owner and station manager Mark Peterson joins program director and Teleforum host Frank Sparks for an on-air business meeting. Just kidding, of course…Mark has seen over 30 years of history on Beaver County Radio through his own eyes, and has studied all 70 years of WBVP and WMBA. He has compiled the histories into his new book “Behind The Microphone: The History of Radio In Beaver County, PA”, which will be the subject of the 10:00 hour of Teleforum on May 22.

and finally Frank will be joined by  Chris Shovlin whose voice has been heard on Beaver County Radio for over 40 years. He started as a sports announcer in the mid-1970s at WMBA, before becoming sports director and general manager during his long tenure at WBVP. He can still be heard every Saturday at Noon, as the host of “Frontiers In Learning” presented by Lincoln Learning Solutions.

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Tune in from 9 a.m. this morning to 12 noon to Telefourm with Frank Sparks. We will be celebrating all week in conjunction with our 70 th Anniversary when WBVP first went Live on the air on May 25, 1948. Each Day this week and next we will feature voices of the past that made Beaver County Radio what it is today. Today we will kick it all of with former WMBA program director and sports announcer Bill Fontana from 9:10 to 10:00 AM live in the Beaver County Radio studio! Bill worked at WMBA in the 70s, representing the station on some of the nation’s biggest stages, and made a surprise return to Beaver County Radio in 2017 as part of our high school sports coverage team!

Then at 10:10 a.m.  current Sports Director Bob Barrickman will be welcomed into the Beaver County Radio studios to look back at some of the greatest sports moments of the last 70 years from 10:10 to 11:00 AM. Bob has been with WBVP since 1980, and his career landed him in the Beaver County Sports Hall of Fame in 2008.

Then in hour number three we will be joined at 11:10 a.m. via phone by 1990s WBVP show host Dmitri Vassilaros joins to discuss the high-paced talk format of the decade on Beaver County Radio.

And to finish up day number on we will have Frank Greenlee, “The Big G”, worked at WMBA in the 1970s and 1980s on the show via telephone and he’ll reminisce with Frank Sparks on Teleforum on May 21 at 11:20.

“Radio Rewind” is brought to you by Ba’Runi Bar & Grille, the John Pournaras Agency, the Ambridge Italian Villa, Bowser Hyundai of Chippewa, McGee Heating & Cooling, and the Pennsylvania Hot Rod Company.