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Radio And TELEVISION News Reporter Andy Potter, Sportscaster George Commo And Vermont Public TV President And CEO John King Will Be Inducted During The Annual VAB Awards Banquet November 19 In Burlington.

Burlington, VT A news reporter, a sportscaster, a station executive and a legendary crooner have been named to the Vermont Organisation of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

Radio and TV news correspondent Andy Potter, sportscaster George Commo and Vermont Public TV President and GENERAL MANAGER John King will be inducted during the yearly VAB Awards Banquet November 19 in Burlington. Radio and megastar Rudy Vallee will be inducted posthumously.

Vallee was born in 1901 in Island Pond. A teen bandleader, he drew attention with the band he started at Yale University, "Rudy Vallee and the Connecticut Yankees." In 1929, Vallee started hosting "The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour" on NBC, later "The Royal Jello Hour." The show was one of the 2 most well liked programs in the country for the following 10 years (the other being "Amos 'n' Andy"). His programme was first to present acts such as Burns and Allen, Milton Berle, Kate Smith, the Mills Siblings and Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.

His radio, stage and film career was lengthy. He worked into the early 1980's, when he now and then served as the opening act for the Village Folk. Vallee died in 1986. His other half, Eleanor Vallee, said she was excited with the VAB respect. "I'm so pleased and appreciative of this honor for my late hubby, my 'vagabond lover,'" she said from her home in LA "Vagabond Lover" was the name of Vallee's first film, in 1929. She revealed she is planning on attending the event.

The recently-retired Andy Potter is a legend among news newshounds in Vermont. He started his radio career while attending Middlebury School in the mid-1960's. After serving in Vietnam, he came back to Vermont, where he brought his reporting skills to a variety of list of radio stations, including WJOY, WDOT and WKDR amongst others. He carved a second career on TV, where he used to be a longtime senior journalist for WCAX in Burlington.

George Commo is a six-time winner of the Vermont Sportscaster of the Year award and is also an affiliate of the Vermont Press Organisation Hall of Fame. George has been a radio and TV sportscaster since the early 1970's and was the longtime voice of UVM Hockey and Vermont junior league baseball. Since 1998, he has been covering Norwich University Hockey for WDEV.Among his fans and peers, George is one of the greatest hockey play-by-play sportscasters to ever climb behind a mike.

John King joined VPT in 1987 and has served as President and Managing Director since 1998. He also serves on the PBS Board of Directors and has served as Chairperson of the Vermont TV Broadcasters Co-location Association. He's credited with helping to form a robust bond between public and private broadcasting in Vermont.

WDEV Radio in Waterbury has been named the "Broadcaster of the Year" for 2011. The station did an incredible job of keeping the general public informed during and after Tropical Typhoon Irene. Their around-the-clock coverage of the disaster is credited with saving lives and keeping folk informed.

John Likakis, Executive Director of WBTN-AM in Bennington is also being known for outstanding coverage of Tropical Tempest Irene. Likakis is one of two winners of the VAB's Distinguished Service Award. Likakisand station volunteers at WBTN provided vital information to their community before, during and after the tempest. For days, they were the sole link between local emergency officials and stuck citizens.

The other Distinguished Service Award will be presented to Ginny McGehee of WJOY radio in Burlington. Ginny is the longest-serving female radio personality in Vermont history, having started at WJOY in 1983. Her radio family would not think of kicking off the day without her good humor and optimistic attitude. She is served her community in alternative ways as a board member of Champlain Valley Crimestoppers and the Vermont and New Hampshire Valley chapter of the North American Red Cross.

The Alan Noyes Community Service Award is going to WJJR-FM in Rutland for their wonderful annual Gift-of-Life blood drive. WJJR characters Terry Jaye and Nanci Gordon helped collect 1,400 pints of blood in twenty four hours last December, breaking a New England record set in Boston. The once a year drive has been a focal point of community participation in Rutland. The regional and countrywide record has since then been eclipsed by Manchester, New Hampshire. This year's drive is lined up for December twenty.

Two other Community Service Awards will be presented to WOKO-FM and ABC22 / FOX44-TV.

WOKO radio in Burlington has been conducting their "Big Change Round-up for Kids" for 7 years. Last year, the station raised an astonishing $206,000 for the Vermont Children's Hospice at Fletcher Allen. The annual campaign finishes in a four-day radiothon.

ABC22 / FOX44 is being honoured for organizing a telethon for June 8 that raised more than $45,000 for the local Red Cross. The stations took action when correspondent Natalie Paterson came back from covering damage from Vermont's spring floods and asked General Manager Vic Vetters what the stations could do to help their neighbors. The telethon helped restore the local Red Cross coffers at a critical time.

The Vermont Association of Broadcasters has been representing the interests of radio and television broadcasters in Vermont since 1956. For detailed info about the VAB, including ticket information for the November 19 event, come and visit the internet site at www.vab.org., writes tagza.com.

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