BILL WILLIAMS 
Weekdays 10am to 3pm and Sundays Noon to 5pm

Wow, can’t believe I’ve been playing the hits for more than 50.

My first “radio station” didn’t broadcast to anyone. I built it in my bedroom with sound equipment I collected around the house. It was a great way to practice announcing to get better at it. From there, I started and ran a radio station at my high school. We broadcast to the school library. Then, it was my college radio station, before landing my first paid radio shift in 1976.

I began at WTLB in Utica, working Saturday night at midnight till Sunday morning at 6am. After WTLB moved to WPTR in Albany. The station was 50,000 watts, so it was a regular thing to receive requests from listeners in Canada, and along the east coast.

My first full-time radio job came in March 1978 at WDOT in Burlington Vermont. I worked the night shift, which also included running the control board for Yankee games.

After Vermont, I returned to the Hudson Valley, and have been there ever since, working at WHUC and WRVW in Hudson, WCKL and WCTW in Catskill, WGHQ and B-94 in Kingston, Q-92 and WKIP in Poughkeepsie, and WGY and WGY-FM in Albany, plus doing traffic reports for the Traffax Traffic Network in the Capital Region.

I’ve worked in many different formats of music, been a news reporter, traffic reporter, and appeared at hundreds, if not thousands, of parades, community events, grand openings, and other remote broadcasts.

I grew up and continue to reside in Columbia and Greene Counties, and have always considered the Hudson Valley my home.

Two of my greatest thrills, as a radio person, was in 1976, when I traveled to NYC and met both Dan Ingram on WABC and Don Imus on WNBC.

On a personal note, I recently made a decision to move from full-time to part-time employment. I still get to do the job I love, but for not as many hours a-day. The extra time I now have is for my family.

Email: bill@albanymagic.com