WTIC Alumni Site
In Memory of and Designed by Bill Clede
REMEMBERING THE GOLDEN YEARS OF RADIO IN CONNECTICUT
On Monday August 31, 2009 at 7 PM radio-TV veteran
Bill Hennessey, former Channel 30 news anchor and WTIC staffer
talked about his recollections of the “Golden Years of Radio” in the Great Room of the
Paradise Pizza Restaurant, 10 East Street, New Britain
The public and broadcast people came to add their "two cents".
Emcee was TV personality Steve Parker.
Bill Hennessey, formerly the “Ambassador of the CT Lottery”,
is more recently known as the “Voice of the Crowley Auto Group”.
He spoke of the years when Ben Hawthorne, Bob Steele, Bob
Ellsworth, Sereno Gammell,
Joe Girand, Ivor Hugh, Dick Bertel, Arnold
Dean, Mitch Betters, Una King,
Charlie Parker and other talented stars
shone brightly on CT's TV & radio airways.
The audience was invited to add their "two cents "and ask questions.