Originally posted Tuesday, June 19, 2018 by RODNEY HO/rho@ajc.com on his AJC Radio & TV Talk blog
Award-winning Elly Yu is leaving 90.1/WABE-FM after five years at the station as a reporter.
She will be moving to Washington D.C. with her husband Daniel to be a general assignment reporter at WAMU-FM, that city's NPR station.
“We'll miss Atlanta and the friends we've made here immensely, but hopeful and excited for this next step in our lives,” she wrote on Facebook.
Yu has been an investigative fellow with Reveal covering immigration.
She won a 2017 Atlanta Press Club Awards of Excellence best radio reporting award.
Yu received a bachelor’s in international relations from the University of Southern California and a master’s in journalism from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
The station now has multiple openings with the retirement of morning host Denis O'Hayer June 29 and the recent sudden and unexplained departure of afternoon host Amy Kiley.
There are 10 job listings at WABE's website as I write this.
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Local talk show host Dana Barrett, who lost her gig at 1190/WAFS-AM (Biz1190), has found a new home at news/talk 640/WGST-AM. She is now heard daily from noon to 2 p.m.
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Gary Guntor, a former WSB announcer, has passed away. He was 68.
According to a history of the radio station, Guntor joined WSB in 1970 and stayed until 1974. He hosted shows such as "Clockwatcher Show", "Metro All Requests" and "Nightbeat". He returned in 1982 and stayed until 1991.
His former WSB colleague John Moore called Guntor "a good guy. He did his job, he did it well and he was always pleasant to work with!"
Moore recalled Gary telling him how he built his own very low power "radio station" as a teenager and "broadcast" to a couple of blocks surrounding his parent's home in Macon. “He put a flashing light on the front porch which he would turn on to let the neighbors know when he was ‘on the air,’ “ Moore wrote in an email.
Guntor's obituary noted that he also worked with the Atlanta Falcons broadcast team for a time.
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Credit: RODNEY HO/rho@ajc.com
Credit: RODNEY HO/rho@ajc.com
James "Moby" Carney, the former Kicks 101.5 host who has been voice-tracking for a handful of stations in the Southeast, recently started a Moby in the Morning podcast.
He began last month and has four available so far.
The weekly podcast is available on the Podcasts app in your iPhone and on Player.FM. Each one is about 20 minutes long.
“I am a conservative Christian patriot,” he declared during his first podcast last month. “If you’re not, well, that’s okay, be what you want to be.”
He talked immigration, railing against illegals using government resources and not speaking English. But he supports legal immigration. He then lamented the reduced popularity of high heels followed by a bit about animal flatulence.
Moby said in an interview he was hesitant to do a podcast, but a local marketing expert Darien Southerland convinced him to try it out and hopefully make some money, too.
For now, it’s a low-tech affair with no producer.
"Nothing is off limits," he said, be it guns or Donald Trump. (He's a fan of both.) "I'll give it my best shot. I think the podcast will grow quickly. We'll see! It's a brand new puppy dog and it ain't housebroken yet!"
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