September 9, 2019 • Issue 669
Wilson Wins The Dayton Game
Cox WHKO/Dayton PD/morning host Nancy Wilson celebrated 30 years with the cluster in May. Though it wasn’t her intent to marry the market, or even be in radio, Wilson has become a trusted fixture. Starting as the morning news anchor, she mixed and still mixes her personality with the information her hometown needs, and it has paid off in ratings. Here, Wilson discusses her path to hometown stardom, early career highlights, and why she will never ask Dierks Bentley to marry her. CA: What were your early career goals? NW: I grew up in a small county outside of Dayton, which was the big city to me. I decided Nancy Wilson I wanted to go to the University of Dayton because we grew up watching Dayton Flyers basketball – clearly a very technical and complicated way to pick a college. I went as a Civil Engineering major, because I thought that was where the big bucks were, but I quickly realized it wasn’t for me. Once I ditched engineering, I had to decide what I thought best suited my skills and strengths, and could provide a career path. I was very inquisitive as a child, and my parents would tease me about interviewing – or sometimes interrogating – people. After thinking on it, I decided to give Broadcast Journalism a try. It wasn’t a big radio school – there was a lot of emphasis on television – but I learned a lot from the instructors who took the time to teach us the technical elements of radio. Talking never gave me much trouble! (continued on page 10)
Racecar Spelled Backwards Is Racecar: BMLG Records’ Florida Georgia Line celebrate FGL Fest at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Pictured (l-r) are Big Loud’s Seth England, BMLGR’s Jimmy Harnen, FGL’s Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley, BMLG’s Scott Borchetta, BMLGR’s Matthew Hargis, BMLG’s Mike Rittberg, and Big Loud’s Kevin “Chief” Zaruk.
NSHoF 2019: Sharon Vaughn Spotlighting individual inductees leading up to the Oct. 14 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala continues with singer, songwriter and producer Sharon Vaughn. Discovered in Florida by Mel Tillis, this year’s sole female inductee used her love of Roy Rogers to help define the Outlaw Movement with “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys,” a song that “couldn’t have been written by a woman.” (But more on that later.) Vaughn’s credits also
Sharon Vaughn
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