Bob Freeman was about the hardest working reporter I ever hired. He was part of a team we assembled in the 1980's that made the station the place for news, and Bob as much as anyone made it that way.
I was teaching a broadcast news class at Jefferson State Jr. College about the same time he started working in the WERC news department. Bob was taking classes at Jeff State in that era, but when I talked with him today, neither of us were sure how he ended up working at the station! Like myself, Bob moved-on to TV, and has been a longtime News Director in Indiana, as you'll hear in the interview.
Another veteran of those Birmingham radio years was Steve Sanders, who went on to a long TV-News career at WGN in Chicago, and just recently retired. And Jesse Champion, who passed in 2007, and Steve Chiotakis, now a West Coast broadcaster, and Lynn Sampson, who like myself, hosted "For The Record" on Public TV for a while and then got smart and got out of the on-air part of media and into PR/Media.
Read the story when you have a chance!
* If Alabama Power wants to operate a "news" site, they should make is plain as day it is not an unbiased source for news. Put their name right up top, like "Alabama Power's Alabama News Site" instead of a grayed-out name that is barely visible. What are they trying to hide?
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