We always enjoy having guests in studio for our Celebrity Birthday Game. Often they are familiar faces from the local media or government, and some times they are prominent community members like police officers and school principals, but they are all celebrities to us!
That's why we thought it would be fun for our listeners to learn a little more about these guests too! Each week will will ask players to answer five questions, sometimes serious, sometimes silly.
This week Jim Gagliardi, known as the "gold standard" in the WGY Newsroom, will be joining us for the very first time. Tracy had the pleasure of working with Jim for three years before coming to WRVE and she is petrified to face him - the man is a walking encyclopedia!
Learn a little more about Jim here and play along every weekday at 6:30a and 7:50a!
- Where is your hometown? Born In Schenectady, hometown of Rotterdam.
- Who is your idol? Justin Hayward (lead singer and lead guitarist Moody Blues)...singer songwriter Gordon Lightfoot... singer songwriter Dan Fogelberg...may he rest in peace.
- If you weren't doing what you are doing, what would you be doing? Cleaning offices.
- What's your favorite kind of weather and why? Sunny, low humidity high in the mid to upper 70’s, you can do anything outside and not break a sweat.
- What was your longest on-air radio news shift and why? 1. Richard Nixon resigns the Presidency... August 8th 1974...resignation takes effect August 9th...(the whole country was talking about it) and that was *the* big story that day and night and for quite a while after . 2. Shenendehowa students Chris Stewart and Deanna Rivers killed, Dec 1st 2012. Two other students severely injured, (Matt Hardy and Bailey Wind) in the crash on the Northway...crash happened Saturday night...I was working Sunday morning. Only person scheduled to work, that day, and the story developed on many fronts all day Sunday...so it was a long, very sad day. Dennis Drue was the driver of the car that struck the car that was driven by Chris Stewart...Drue was sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison, pleaded guilty to 58 counts connected to the crash, Drue was denied parole in July 2018.