Sept. 17, 2006
 
WV Media Elite Rub Shoulders With Current, Former Co-Workers and Guests at WV Broadcasting Hall of Fame Grand Opening and Induction Ceremony
 
By Tony Seaton
Huntington News Network Contributing Writer
 
Huntington, WV (HNN) -- Nearly 150 people turned out to the new facility in Harveytown that calls itself the biggest and best museum of radios, televisions and electronic equipment in the US. They were there on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2006 to fete 60-plus inductees in the inaugural Hall of Fame class.
 
We're talking WV media elite. NPR's Noah Adams, Bob "Gilligan" Denver, Jule "Mr. Cartoon" Huffman, Sleepy Jeffers, Bos Johnson, Don Knotts, Peter Marshall, Gene Morehouse, Charles Ryan, Ed Rabel of CBS and NBC news, DJ Shroeder, Soupy Sales, Dean Sturm, and Chuck Woolery are just a few of the litterati and glitterati with West Virginia ties who either spoke or designated a speaker on their behalf, for their induction into the WV Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
 
Along with the on-air personalities, there were news directors, engineers, cameramen and dozens of otherwise unsung heroes of West Virginia's proud broadcasting tradition. WSAZ television alone had half dozen inductees, including the man responsible for the groundbreaking Charleston-Huntington two-city newscast that NBC copied for a little show they had called The Huntley Brinkley report. (More on them and their achievements and the event in Monday’s posting.)