Augusta's Wgac Radio: The Voice of the Garden City for Seventy Years - Softcover

WGAC has been the voice of Augusta for over seven decades. The station was founded in 1940 by renowned television pioneer J. B. Fuqua, who soon built his single broadcast building into a media empire. From helping to build the career of pop star James Brown, who once shined shoes outside the studio, to building the Masters Golf Tournament into an international tradition, WGAC has brought the best of Augusta to the world. It has weathered the transition in American radio from local stations with hometown programming to corporately owned stations that feature syndicated segments, all without giving up its Augusta character. Join local writers Debra van Tuyll and Scott Hudson as they trace the history of this community landmark from its infancy to its number-one status today. --From cover.

Debra Reddin van Tuyll is professor of communications at Augusta State University, where she teaches journalism and public relations. She is the author or editor of three other books: The Civil War and the Press, The Southern Press in the Civil War and Knights of the Quill: Confederate Correspondents and Their Civil War Reporting. Knights of the Quill was a finalist for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications' 2011 Tankard Award for the best book in mass communications. Her fourth book, The Third Stripe: A Cultural History of the Confederate Press, will be published in 2012. Van Tuyll is married to Dr. Hubert van Tuyll, chair of the ASU Department of History, Anthropology and Philosophy, and they have one daughter, Laura. Scott Hudson is WGAC's award-winning investigative reporter. He is an honors graduate from Augusta State with a degree in political science and history. He studied media law and ethics with Dr. Van Tuyll at Augusta State. Scott's style of reporting has been noted as being different from others in that not only does Scott consider himself an activist journalist, he also tends to add humor to his reports. In his own words, I think I am the illegitimate child of Ida Tarbell and Jon Stewart!"? Most importantly of all, he is Emerson's daddy."