Wayland's Bruce Schwoegler Among 12 To Be Inducted into Broadcasters Hall of Fame

Bruce Schwoegler of Wayland is one of eight living and four deceased individuals who will be inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame at its annual Induction and Awards Luncheon at the Boston Marriott Quincy Hotel on Friday, Sept. 12. The public is invited to attend the event, and tickets are available for purchase at $50.

For decades, Schwoegler was a top-rated broadcast meteorologist and science reporter and with 33 years in the radio/television business, all with WBZ, he was – at his retirement in 2001 – one of the longer tenured newscasters in Boston history. Throughout his career, he honed an ability to simplify and teach complex technological issues to a broadcast audience and others. He won New England’s first Emmy Award for Outstanding Meteorologist and is the recipient of numerous honors including recognition for a prime-time Global Warming television special and the American Meteorological Society (AMS) National Outstanding Broadcast Meteorologist Award.

The other seven living inductees who will be present and honored at the luncheon are: Leo Beranek, the founding President of WCVB-TV, Channel 5, who will be 100 years old three days after the luncheon; WHDH-TV, Channel 7 investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan; recently retired 40-year Boston on-air personality Mike Addams, veteran of WRKO, WHDH, WZOU, Oldies 103 and recently 17-year host of “Morning Magic” on Magic 106.7; Richie Balsbaugh, who transformed a floundering Medford radio station into the powerhouse Kiss 108 and launched Jam’n 94-5; New England’s first physician broadcaster, WBZ-AM host of “Medical Minute” and founder of the Genesis Fund, Dr. Murray Feingold; Former WMEX Program Director, founder and owner of WGTR/Natick, founder of owner of V66 television, host/creator of the nationally syndicated radio program Open House Party and current owner and operator CodCom, a four-station radio group on Cape Cod, John Garabedian; and 46-year veteran on-air radio personality of Worcester’s WORC, Dave O’Gara.

The four deceased individuals who be honored at the luncheon in the presence of their respective families are: television’s celebrated “French Chef” Julia Child, who originated her programs at WGBH-TV; Boston’s Channel 2; David Ives, who as head of WGBH-TV helped build it into a national powerhouse for the Public Broadcasting Service; long-time WBZ-AM talk host and television-radio documentarian Lovell Dyett; and Dave MacNeill, the voice of the Boston Pops for 50 years on WCRB-FM, Boston.

As in past years, the Induction and Awards Luncheon will be emceed by WBZ-AM popular talk program host Jordan Rich.

Article submitted by Burt Peretsky

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