THE GEORGIA RADIO HALL OF FAME

Mike Kavanagh

Board Of Directors

Mike's long radio career began (ironically) in 1967 at a small station in Western Massachusetts with the call letters WSBS. Mike did sports reports and play-by-play of high school basketball games for what was one of the first cable TV systems in the United States. Mike went on to work at WHYN in Springfield, and at WLEE in Richmond, VA. In 1976, Mike came to WSB in Atlanta for a year then left to cover the Carter administration as a reporter for the Metromedia Radio Network and its Washington flagship WASH-FM. In 1981, he became a network anchor for the now defunct RKO Radio Networks in New York. In 1984 he returned to Atlanta to become news director and then operations manager for WCNN. He also worked at the CNN Radio Network and on many weekends he sat in the anchor chair for CNN-2, which later was renamed CNN Headline News. In 1990, after a brief sabbatical from radio, Mike returned to WSB Radio where he has spent most of his radio career as a news anchor and talk show host. In 1992 Mike won the Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting. Since leaving WSB in a fulltime capacity Mike has established an Internet radio station, is involved in many civic an charitable groups, is on the board of directors of the Lewis Grizzard Foundation and is the webmaster for a website devoted to the history of WSB radio, on which he is considered an expert. Mike collects pre-1950 AM radios and is a member of the Southeast Antique Radio Society. He still works free-lance for WSB as the "Money Expert" and host of the Sunday morning show "Money Matters".

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