We're happy to be here in our new home on the World Wide Web.

Over the coming months, we plan to make this website even more interactive than you see at present. Still to come will be more pictures, audio clips, even video of our inductees.

It's an on-going process...many of these pictures and clips come from private collections and to those who have and will donate them as a means of honoring those now inducted into the Hall of Fame, we thank you.

How does a broadcaster become an inductee? For those on the air after 1960:

1.) Can be a living nominee or postumous.

2.) Have at least 10 years in the broadcast industry.

3.) Lived at least five years in the Dayton area while in broadcasting.

4.) The person nominating must speak and address how the nominee has contributed to the community.

5.) The nominee does not have to be living in Dayton at the time of his/her nomination.

 

For those on the air prior to 1960:

1.) Can be a living nominee or posthumous.

2.) No limitation on tenure in the broadcast industry.

3.) Person nominating must speak and address how the nominee contributed to the community at that time.

4.) The nominee does not have to be living in Dayton at the time of his/her nomination.

Download a nominating form.

Send nominating forms to:

Dayton Area Broadcasters Hall Of Fame
Dayton Cultural & RTA Transit Center
40 S. Edwin C. Moses Boulevard
Dayton, Ohio 45402

Questions? Please contact Jim Johnson, WDAO Radio at
(937) 222-9326

Only members in good standing of the Dayton Broadcaster's Hall of Fame may nominate prospective inductees. Entries for the 2009 induction class must be submitted by December 31, 2008.

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2009 Induction Ceremony News

The Dayton Broadcasters Hall Of Fame will welcome 9 new inductees to its' ranks this September. They are:

WHIO-TV News Photographer Denny Cheatham. He's shot news video for Channel 7 for 46 years.

Arlen "Bucky" Bockhorn - who has spent the last 40 years calling games for the University Of Dayton men's basketball team.

Marsha Bonhart - News Anchor for WDTN-TV, Channel 2. Also a previous anchor for WKEF-TV.

A.J. Brown - former News Director and Reporter for WONE/WTUE Radio.

Deborah Parenti, former General Manager for Clear Channel/Dayton, and General Manager for WWSN-FM. (107.7)

Teresa Weaver, Assignment Editor at WDTN-TV and former parttime anchor at WKEF-TV.

Dr. John C. "Turk" Logan - General Manager of WCSU-FM at Central State University, and former on-air talent and Program Director for WDAO-FM (107.7).

Toula Stamm - A producer for the WHIO-AM radio program "Conversation Piece" and well-known Dayton public relations director.

Gene "By Golly" Barry - Being inducted posthumously, was Dayton's top rock and roll DJ for many years. He came to WING in 1945, and helped to bring WDAO-FM on the air in 1964. He also worked at WAVI, and returned to WING for the last time around 1990. Gene died in a local nursing home in 2001.

 

The 4th Annual Dayton Area Broadcasters Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place:

Saturday, September 12, 2009

At Sinclair Community College, Building 12, Ponitz Center in Downtown Dayton.

The event will be held from 5 to 9 pm, with dinner at 5:15 PM and a dessert reception following the induction ceremony.

A limited number of tickets for the general public are available now.

Tickets are $60.00 and are available by calling (937) 443-0249.

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The Dayton Broadcasters Hall Of Fame thanks Stor-Com of Kettering
(and its founder, the late Dayton broadcast engineer Kurt Farmer) for hosting the Hall Of Fame Website.